Recent content by nerfherder

if you want to be extremely thorough, you could sanitize the french press with some star-san same as you would with any brewing equipment.

i would recommend the brew strong episode on sanitation (5 jan 09) where they interview Jon Herskgovits of five star. I believe Jon says something about keeping your star san solution at 3.5 ph and ensure that it isn't cloudy. he says a few other things, but i don't want to ruin the whole...

its not the size of your kettle, its the roil in your boil. but seriously, unless you have a badass stove you'd probably want to get a propane burner that you set up outside.

whats the difference between butterfly valves and ball valves?

it should smell like Christmas.

you practice good mashing technique when making oatmeal.

I undoubtedly will, I might even print out a copy of it so that i could read it again on the way back. One thing that I was thinking about doing, is meeting up with someone local to help them brew a batch just to get a feel for it. (crawl, walk, run) Oh, and Foothills is an awesome place...

Winston-Salem

the good news about this is that it seems that north carolina is up and coming with home brewers/micro breweries. and the fact that i'm in the national guard, so i'll be happy to not wear this uniform everyday. I have been reading quite a bit, but sometimes it gets rough due to the fact...

hello all, I'm currently deployed to Iraq, and fortunately my tour is winding down. Its been a long time since i've had a beer, so naturally, I began to google random beer related things and really discovered home brewing. I read Palmer's How to Brew in a little under two days. Then I began...