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I place the paint strainer in the empty bucket. Pour everything in. Lift the bag and the solids come out with it. Cold crash after ferment is complete. Clean Beer, cheap! Oldrtucker

OK, my temperature is supposed to be 72. The point is after moving my beer outside into much warmer conditions (like 85 to 90) it carbs nicely. Kent

Although I'm not one off the beer pro's I have been homebrewing 8 are so years. Every time I have under carbing problems, it is in the spring, right after we start the air conditioner. I move the beer outside, on the back porch for several days. It is warmer there. Soon the bottles are hard...

the table sugar works in Mr. Beer just fine. Mr. Beer suggest to shake the bottles to dissolve the sugar. add the amount of table sugar that Mr. beer chart says use. after all table sugar is much cheaper does the same job.

5 gal. paint filters will fit over the mouth of you bottling bucket. Just pull it out to the bottom of bucket so no air is added. Kent

I have 104 Qt. Mr. Beer bottles, 24 pt. pet bottles and I used 20 oz. soft drink bottles until I purchased enough Qts so I didn't need the pop bottles. Never used glass of any kind. To old and clumsy to chance glass. No complaints with plastic. Kent

Mysticmead thanks for the calculator. This biab has almost got me ready to try electric biab. oldtrucker

How many pounds of grain will a gallon hold? Old Trucker

A truckdriver is paid by miles with no time and half. For me that's about $24 hr. Half hour to brew half hour to bottle. that's still about $5 a 6-pak. that's competitive. Old Trucker

Most of you aren't being just about the cost. The op is talking bmc. I brew extract only. I don't brew because I like to. I brew to save money. You can brew a comparable beer to bmc for less. For instance, Muntons Caniadian draught is total cost of roughly $25 for 6 gallons. That's close to...

Use your pot lid to make a flange for the pot you already have. Have the funnel tig welded to the outer rim of the top. old trucker

i've read these mr. beer comments here many times. make the mr. beer. see if YOU like if. my drinking group likes high country canadian draft better than any other beer. commercial or homebrew. i make either 5 or 10 gals. at a time and some times still can't keep up. it's quick and cheap to...

use either mixer or painter mixer. that's the only way i've ever done it. much faster than spoons or whisk. didn't take but a second to see that. plus it adds air for yeast. kent

speedymetals.com has 1/4 " tubing as then as .035 thickness. they don't have a min. order. you mite get a few inches and see what you can do to bend it. oldtrucker

No sir. Marion, La. a little no stop light community in Union parish. oldtrucker