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Read the hobbit 5+ times. Re-read it before seeing the movie. I was disappointed. Slapstick, cheap humor was added in places: burping, troll scene, "that'll do it"-Goblin King. Take it or leave it - personal taste. Crucial development was missed: Gandalf not mimicking the trolls. Gandalf...

I'm guessing you have the micrologix1000. Do you have access to rslogix500 to setup your project? I don't know if you can download it for free online or not. I think it'd be fun to do. What are the I/O specs on yours? If I remember right, there are various options for the amount of I/O and the...

I've recently started making yeast starters and harvesting yeast from overly sized yeast starters. A buddy of mine is really into cider, and often uses ale yeasts to make it. So I wondered... Could you use apple/grape juice (appropriately pasteurized and preservative free at the appropriate...

I guess I made this unclear, I'm really hoping to save some cash (I forgot to add poor - college student), so I'm hoping to increase the performance of my immersion chiller (through increasing the transfer coefficients) or design an affordable chiller. This could be a new immersion chiller with...

Dear fellow brewers, First off, I'm a mechanical engineering student. I've been working on calculations for a homemade counter-flow chiller, or basically an improvement over my 25" immersion chiller I'm sick of waiting on (30-45min cooling for 5-6 gallons). I just finished reading the...

I'm new to all-grain, and I'm still working on mastering my process. How "clear" do you want your wort coming off of your grains? (I'm infusion mashing with 2 low-volume batch sparges). From what I've read, you want to run water out until you are getting "clear" wort. Then you return the...

Doh, From Superglue's website (where it has a pdf and word doc on this product) "PROPERTIES: Initial color: R(white paste)/H(brown-yellow paste) Full Strength: 24 hours Final color: Brown-copper Mix Ratio (parts by volume): 1:1 Working Time: 5 minutes Temperature...

@greencoat Any good recipes? @Oompa Loompa: My reason for thinking an infection caused the lack of carbonation: "In other beers, however, acidity is almost always a sign of infection. Essentially, unwanted bacteria have infected the beer and are chewing up the remaining sugars. The...

I've come to the conclusion that my chocolate stout is infected for three reasons: When transferring from the primary to the secondary, there was a gunky top layer on the beer ( I racked under this into a secondary, a film did not appear in the secondary or bottles). The taste of the beer has...

http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html Hope this helps!

Out of curiosity, why safale-05 for a tripel? Isn't one of the main flavors for a belgian ale the yeast? Also is Safale-05 an ethanol tolerant strand? Is it meant to take alcohol level characteristic of a trippel? If you repitch, remember to culture some extra yeast to add when adding your...

1 gallon lipton green tea bottles. They're PETE plastic and cost about 3 dollars. Also you get a gallon of green tea. win win. You can take the lid off and squeeze an air lock on without using a stopper or grommet. (but of course, it's better to use a stopper).

I'm from KC on the MO side but welcome!

$3-5 per pound grain prices. Very expensive extract kits. my LHBS pales in comparison to most online shops. :(