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I managed to go from 1.057 to 1.012 in 6 days with my first all grain recipe. I used Nottingham yeast. Pitched it dry too. Kept it at 66* for 3 days and then dropped it 56* in an ice bath and it kept going! Love Nottingham yeast!

No offense taken. My LHBS sells "refurb'ed" corney kegs for $42. That is what I was basing my price from.

Remember, there appear to be 5 soft drink kegs (hopefully corny kegs) with this. That would have a value of about $200 and the 2 CO2 tanks are probably worth something too. Definitely not $600, someone is trying to rob someone!

I thought the first one was fair, but I guess what do I know. I might try to steal it for $450...:mug:

Cinci-Brewing - The MR BEER way of doing things was to put the measured sugar or carb tabs in the bottle. As you know, this was a PITA for 20 bottles of beer, little alone 50-60 bottles. I'd recommend while this beer is fermenting away to use this time to acquire a bottling bucket. I don't...

You can download a trial of BeerSmith and enter ANY All Grain recipe into it to be converted to extract. I've never worked with one of the converted recipes, but I imagine it does a pretty good job!

Walker, you're a great source of usable knowledge. Thanks for this. And your avatar rocks!

Well, I brewed this and my starting gravity was a little high around 1.056 and it tasted sweet and smelled of sweet potatoes!!! Awesome. Now a week later, the Nottingham took that down to 1.012 so that's cool, and the hydro sample tasted GREAT! I'm cold crashing it now down to 58* to let it...

Just remember, the more dead space you have in your tun, the harder it will be to maintain consistant temps during your mash... I had 10 lbs of grain and 3 gallons of water in my 5, yes FIVE, gallon igloo round cooler, and I swear I had at least 8 inches from the top of the water/grain to the 5...

Whomever stated that Mr. Steve's was an awful store has no reason to state this, and that is VERY misleading. It is obviously his opinion, which he is entitled to, but Mr. Steve's stocks pretty much everything you could ask for, AND is very reasonably priced. Plus, sometimes he'll throw...

Anybody own one of these? Seems practical! http://www.carboytoy.com/

I'll be heading to Tampa, Fl for a business trip. I was curious if there are any Micro Breweries that are a must to visit when in the Tampa, Fl area? Steve

I'm surprised you can get Troegs up there! They are a micro out of Harrisburg. Troegenator is some potent stuff, as is there Mad Elf come the holiday season...

I picked up this one with my recent order to Amazon with some other brew tools: http://www.amazon.com/Taylor-9842-Commercial-Waterproof-Thermometer/dp/B00009WE45/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1270431275&sr=1-3 Better be submersible! Steve

Probably not due to the scratches that the coins may have put in the plastic. You don't want to use a scratched plastic fermenter, whether it be a bucket or a better bottle. Plus money is the dirtiest thing in the world...

I use a little baking soda with warm water in/on my plastics to rid them of almost all odors...

I don't think it would be illegal to make someone buy the grains, yeast, etc. (ingredients) would it? I think the problem would be selling the alcohol. I see nothing wrong with you buying the grains for XX money and then making a profit selling the grains for XX * 25% (or whatever percent) as...

Every time I search CARBOY, I get car stuff. When I search homebrew I get Nintendo WII stuff. I usually search for beer, homebrew, wine, fermenter, carboy, jug, etc.

Not only do I expect my samplers to drink my beer, but I also expect them to bring my bottles back, rinsed only...

I use an aluminum dowel rod I got at Lowe's and I marked it in .5 gallon increments with a hack saw. I put a "nick" in the rod at the .5 gallon marks and then went around the entire dowel rod for the gallon marks. I actually used a 2 quart pitcher to get my measurements. I added 2 quarts of...