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Just polished off a glass of my version of Chainsaw Brewing Warsteiner Dunkel Imitation ale. Now, time to get my butt outside for flame-out and chilling the wort!! Brewing a Brown Ale for a charity event next month.

OMG. Off topic, but.... YOU JUST SOLVED MY MYSTERY! I bought some QD's recently that were drastically crappier than all of the prior ones I have owned. I just looked at my spares on the shelf, the "good ones" are indeed CMB's and the really, REEEEALLY crappy ones have an "S" on them. They are...

I can't fit my buckets into the fridge or else I'd totally crash the primary instead of the keg. Maybe once I get my fermentation chamber built up. :)

Nope, you do not need heat of any kind to make Apfelwein, just mix the ingredients straight into the bucket. (I half-empty a couple bottles of the juice, pour the sugar into the bottle, and shake vigorously before dumping into the fermenter, so that I don't have to stir directly in the...

IT Guy, Food Network fan, but not an Engineer. If I could escape, I want to get into some kind of Logistics-y field as well. Operations, Supply, etc.

I tried a taste of my Velma SMaSH tonight. It's pretty good! It's a little grassy tasting but it has only been in the keg for a few days... It needs another week on carbonation before it will be where I want it. I like the notes of strawberry & cream that I can already taste in there, though...

Oh lawdy. I moved on to my bottle of Boulevard Reverb Imperial Pilsner. Gods help us all.

Sweet. Yeah, I bet 1056 does the trick in no time flat. I like to cold crash for a couple days and transfer so that I have to be less delicate when I'm moving kegs around. I don't do it every time for my fridge beers, but I try to do it at minimum whenever I am taking beer to an event with my...

I've heard amazing things about Epic's Brainless (and on Cherries, and on Peaches) but haven't had time time to track down a bottle (except for my poorly planned stop thru town on the trip). Yeah, it was the culture/attitude that scared me out of there as soon as I could get back on the road...

My first time trying Lagunitas Hop Stoopid. Holy wow, this beer is CLEAR! And not nearly as malty as I was bracing for - VERY pleasant to drink! Good aroma, great flavor, mild bitterness in the finish. For an 8% beer, it hardly tastes like 6%.

Heck yeah, I bet you can have it done in time. What yeast are you using? If dry, I'd pitch two packs per vessel, if liquid, make a properly sized starter. If I were doing it (and assuming that I use my usual practices & equipment), I'd hold steady at ~66*F so it ferments cool but doesn't...

Dude. You stock brew stands? That. is. AWESOME. I need to visit Janesville sometime.

WOW. I was not expecting to see so much waving of penii around in this thread, especially in the earlier parts... Being that marriage is a 50/50 partnership, I can only recommend COMMUNICATION as the solution to almost all problems that may arise. I'm incredibly lucky to have a significant...

I made an Apple Pie Amber Ale once. It was a few years ago and I took lousy notes on that particular beer. But I do remember that... - I used two cans of Apple Juice concentrate, thawed completely to room temp., and added into the primary after most of the fermentation had finished (but while...

Subscribed. I love me some Vienna, and I loooooove me some Tequila. Lead the way, my friend.

I would do 10 gallons of American Pale Ale. 2-row, some caramel or carapils, a bit of biscuit or honey or victory or even just Munich. 2oz at 30 minutes, 4oz at 5 minutes, and 8oz at flame-out held to steep for 5 minutes before chilling takes place. Then, 2oz dry hop after fermentation...

Stop by a grocery store with a Bulk Goods section and ask to use their scale for a moment? Pick up a cheap battery powered scale at your local Smoke Shop for $15? Are you in a place with NO other homebrewers that you could borrow a scale from? Do you have any neighbors that bake bread or...

o_O whoa. to tell you the truth, I have no idea, re: the car batteries. That is far beyond the scope of my electrical know-how. Regarding the wiring, though... the $3k-4k rate that I listed encompasses a lot of things. Burying the service line instead of replacing the overhead. Bumping my...

Hah. It depends what you mean by "started". I bought the electric HLT on a complete whim about 4 years ago and have never used it. I have read through Kal's site in fits and phases a few times over again. But in terms of seriously reading & concentrating, once, about 2 months ago. I don't read...

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