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Keg lube that I've seen is not water soluble, so it won't rinse off at all. I stopped using it on the lid orings as it made them sticky and nasty and I had to clean them with solvent. I spray the lid with oring in place generously with starsan just before installing it. I then pull up on the...

Save your OG sample (unless it's too late), seal it and refrigerate it. That would keep it from doing anything spontaneous till you can get another hydrometer, or borrow one. And when you get one, buy 2. As soon as I bought a backup, I've not broken another. Pbly 3 yrs now.

Clean cedar shakes work nicely as well. I have a bunch leftover from a project long ago, stored clean and dry. I trim them down and run a side through a wood planer to make it smooth and expose fresh wood. Works great for cedar plank fish. Might be too thin for longer cook times though.

8198 +6 Sweet Stout 8204

Quite a bunch of impressive gardens out there, I've been following for some time. Now i finally have mine up and running. 10 hydroponic buckets for tomatoes, peppers and cukes. 2 tomatoes are the Rutgers 250 they brought back from the dead last year. It was Campbells primary one for many early...

5984.5+5 Dark Mild 5989.5

I've been using picnic taps in my cooler simply due to cost. After a year or so, I'm moving to real taps. The picnic taps are more like.... temporary use. I had 2 fail, the handle came off of 1 (little plastic pins bend), the rubber stopper inside 1 started leaking, and just this weekend I had...

I bought the lifetime update and have been using AnyDVD for quite a number of years (10??), but not much recently so I can't say if it works on BlueRay. The last thing I used it for was to extract the audio tracks from the PULSE DVD. The first recorded music I bought out of Navy boot camp was...

I've found that some plants seem to grow differently. I was given some Cascade rhizomes about 5 years ago, and I added Nugget the next year and 4 more the following year, for a total of 10 plants. The original Cascades came from a club member that was trying to get them beaten into submission in...

4115 + 5 German Pilsner 4120

Oxiclean is pretty much the standard for cleaning and de-labling bottles. As long as you rinse and drain them you should have no issues with residue inside. I always wipe the outside with a soapy rag to ensure all the residue from he labels is gone. There are a few out there that still don't...

I use soda bottle 'preforms' (like White Labs uses/used). Starsan them, lids and a syringe and bank away. They take up far less room than jars, and there are inexpensive stands to hold them. They are sometimes sold as 'test tubes'. I also keep 1/2 pint mason jars of sterilized water on hand for...

3513.4 + 5 German Altbier 3518.4

Our club was trying to put together a bulk buy with them, and the guy doing the 'leg work' got prompt and seemingly valid responses to all his emails, then someone decide to research them. They appear to be mostly a scam.

Got some too. Great price and very reasonable shipping.

Sounds like you need to drink that one while it's fresh, but then IPAs are better that way! I had a similar fail quite a while back, pumped about 1/2 gallon of city water through the chiller and into the beer. I don't recall any adverse affects from it. If you look at the instructions that...

I hung out in 30 degrees for 2 hrs providing moral support, and some 8% homebrew, with 2 fellow homebrewers yesterday. Thank goodness the garage blocked the wind!

Today and yesterday... brewed a Dunkelweisen with my first step mash, kegged a Belgian dark strong & Doppelbock and racked an imperial stout from barrel to carboy for some aging.

I also use milk crates. For me another advantage is that they fit perfectly into my fermentation chambers, and amazingly enough, not by design. I also have a brew hauler that is mostly used for the plastic carboys, but gets used for putting the glass ones into my cooler for cold crash or...