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Gentlemen, It is September and raining, thundering too. I am getting in the mood to 'brew me up some ale'. I was reading this thread and was thinking back... I seem to remember for 16 years, I put three cap fulls, 'from the small bottle of idophor' in a carbouy {5 or 7.5...

Jim... Thank you! Knife

Gentlemen, Yes, my surgeon's 'exercise guy' loves my homebrew, gave him some last year. I saw him today, he came in the room with that 'light in his eyes' and a big smile, the first thing he said was: "Hey man! I want some more Crystal Bisquet!" I replied: "November till April, I'll...

Dude, Are you 'whole graining' or using extract? Lucky, or just 'naturally inspired' to have a real good tasting 'first batch'. I have a recipe for ya, my favorite, but it is DME and speciality grains. And I was wondering about your Blue Moon recipe. If, that is, it is extract, which...

Mogref, A 'dern near' full boil Gentlemen, I have been brewing extracts for 15-16 years, {I can't remember} And during that time I have gone from brewing L.M.E. & D.M.E...

Gentlemen, 7.4 'seven point four'. The answer to 'how many beers I drink on an average, given day'. Now, that number is an average, taken from actual records. A few years ago, I brewed 300 Lbs of DME into 2,000 12 Oz ales. Average 7-8 Lbs per batch. I brewed from November till July 28th...

Terry08, I have heard 'Wheat' helps with head retention. And as I brew 'extract with speciality grains steeped in', ie. 8 Lbs of DME X 5 gallons of water. 'less than a pound' of wheat extract is said to help head retention. I have been having the same problem. Not that it is a problem...

Roobarb, Wow. I love to find something I have stashed and forgotten. Like one time in the early 70's. I was living in an $75. a month {and all bills paid!} 'old servants quarters' behind the old 'big house' on 'Swiss ave' in Dallas. I was back from U.T. Austin and was the owner of...

A Mexican food 'Brew day Buffet' Gentlemen, Since I brew in my kitchen, and brewing ale and cooking food are basically incompatable, 'they get in each other way', I can do one, but not both, {at the same time and in the same place,} and do them...

NZGirl, 'Howdy from Texas', I am an old codger who 'lives alone' too, but for my hound, horse and my mule. I am brewing today, having finally gotten the chainsaw running and 'cut up' a bunch of wood yesterday. I have 3 primarys and 3 secondarys. A week in the primary and a...

Shot, Alright, I will. I am disabled and poor but when my fortune can afford a 5 gallon boil... it makes sense. If a 4 gallon boil is good it is obvious that a 5 gallon boil is better. Thank you 'Lets git ignert and go coon...

Gentlemen, I have been brewing extracts for 15-16 years, {I can't remember} And during that time I have gone from brewing L.M.E. & D.M.E {base grains} for alcohol production. To quantity, {seeing how much ale I can brew in one winter.} {It was 2,000, 12oz ales} And...

YooperBrew, Very valuable information, and thanks. I skim the brown foam off, and just learned that a year or so ago. And the, not 'full boil' but the 'double boil'. ie. two brew pots and boiling about a '4 gallon wort'. A 'dern near full boil', how about that one? I have only done...

Fadeux dude, Yup, about the only thing you can do wrong is not to sanitize well. But what does this mean? What does it mean to sanitize everything? Hmmm... After brewing 15 or 16 years {I forgot} I have learned to soak the bottling bucket 'valve' in Idophor, {removed, open...

jmwst1, Howdy, Is the Crystal 10 a 'steeping grain' or is it to be boiled in the wort? Knife

Gentlemen, I used two '2.5 gallon' boil pots and divided the wort in two, 50/50. I filled the primary with a little store bought water but the wort was mostly a full boil. Call it a 'dern near' full boil. It doesn't take much more propane than boiling a 5 gallon pot and it tasted...

L.G.Dude, Very profoundly interesting, full boils. Hmmmm... yes! This is valuable information and 'mental gold' to me, and searching for 'good ideas' is why I read the 'Homebrew Talk' forum. an idea which basically is 'revolutionary in its implications' but free... and a way to...

Ben, Fermintis safale 0-4 requires a 'blow off tube', a section of 1" tubing, with the other end going under 'sterile' water. Safale 56 does not require the 'hose' but will work with a fermintation lock. I use a 7 gallon primary however with lots of room in there. {use a blow off...

Ya'll, My brewery is named: 'The Former Pantry Brewery' because it is 'the former pantry'. I store pots and pans in piles all over the house, but I am designing a pot holder which will hang them from the ceiling in the kitchen. J. Winters VonKnife...

Gentlemen, Why do I brew? An interesting question it is... All the reasons given by others, were very good reasons. The reasons 'I brew my own' are ... All the reasons given above, and also basically: The reason I learned how to cook food. Control over my own life, to not be a...