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Does your girlfriend get annoyed that you spend time on homebrewing websites? Does she like to give massages?

I plan to open a brewery as soon as I retire from my next career as starting shortstop for the Cubs. I just hope my new wife, Kate Upton, won't mind me working so much.

Any thoughts on when to dry hop? The standard after fermentation or during fermentation NE IPA style? Brewed this a few days ago and fermentation is just starting to die down. To me, Jai Alai seems to be a bit of a cross between a west coast and a NE style IPA.

About 60% ... you'll need an IQPA for that (imperial quadruple IPA). The good news is cold and flu viruses don't survive more than a few hours outside the body (depending on the surface, temperature, humidity etc). So I think the risk of getting infected with a virus from a beer is really...

I haven't noticed much change over the years. My body still reacts the same way -- I get better looking and can dance better.

Before you get too alarmed, you know it's possible you have a brain tumor or something ... and your beer is perfectly fine!

6 lb of dry malt extract is equal to 7.5 lb liquid. So yes, you could sub your 8 lb of pilsner LME; your beer will just be a slightly higher gravity but no enough to worry about, at least in my opinion. First wort hopping means you add the hop addition to the wort after you mash but before...

Went to one in Asheville NC last weekend. $57 for 4 hours. They had 35 or so breweries, almost all local ranging form very small micros to Sierra Nevada and Stone. Price also included a meal and there were a couple of bands. I can't drink 50 bucks worth of beer in 4 hours* but getting to taste...

I was in a similar situation. Was doing extract with a 10-gallon aluminum pot. I got some 5 gallon paint strainer bags (about $2 each) and 25 feet of 3/8 copper tubing for a homemade immersion chiller ($40 maybe?) and I was good to go for BIAB. Still using the same setup.

Thanks! I've seen a lot of good reviews of the cereal killer and was just wondering how this one compares. I could not find any reviews of it.

Does anyone have experience with this mill at Rebel Brewer? economy twin roller malt mill On sale for $100, looks like a good deal if it's well made.

yeah, if you want to ferment in a 5 gallon bucket, I would make 4 gallon batches

My impression was that rapid cooling soon after the boil encourages more cold break formation and that decreases chill haze. Is that not the case? (I realize there are other ways to decrease chill haze and some people don't care about haze at all)

One more reason to make your own :)

That's what she said. sorry

Beer style classifications are stupid.

Not sure why I thought San Diego. Have fun!

First thing I would do is use a different yeast. Wyeast 1332 (Norhtwest ale) or 1056 (American ale) would be good. S-05 if you want dry yeast. Second thing ... more hops. Maybe another 1 oz of Willamette and 1 oz of Mt. Hood at 5 minutes or so. Finally I would bump up the OG a bit, maybe a...

Wow, lots of my favorite breweries there ... even Blackberry Farms. If it were a little closer than 2000 miles to San Diego, I'd be there.

A couple of years ago they did a big stout and compared 1 mm and 0.5 mm gap settings. It made a difference in OG (1.080 vs 1.090) and not surprisingly, the final beer.