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First...thanks for the recipe Reno...second...holy hell stuck sparge! Rough brew day so far, but I'm 30 minutes into my boil, drinking a home brew and loving life....time to redesign my MLT with a copper manifold rather than my stainless toilet pile of junk. I should have known better, my last...

Me: what'd you think of my first batch? (made a brown porter) FIL: it was really good, tasted like PBR. Haha I can assure you that it looked, tasted, or smelled nothing like PBR and it took every ounce of energy I had to not bust out laughing.

Finally tasted this after a week in the bottle(this guy isn't patient) and compared it next to a koko brown my MIL brought me from Florida. Not too far off, other than clarity of course. I went with 1/2 pound of coconut in the mash and a pound at 15 mins left in the boil and it has just the...

I just took that piece to the hardware store and looked through the bolts until I found one with a similar thread and size. Then I cut off the head and filed the bolt end into a hex shape for grip in the drill. Seems to work fine for me so far!

Excellent, thanks for helping out a new guy

Going to brew this for out by the pool this summer, would you recommend using rice hulls? I'm using a 10 gal Gatorade cooler with a stainless sink hose. Thanks, looking forward to this one for my 2nd AG and first wheat.

Lucky me...she loves beer, especially trying out new ones, and hates jewelry...I may be the luckiest man on the planet

Updates with pictures...now the question is what will be a wife pleasing beer! Leaning towards a honey Weiss for after our first child arrives in <4 weeks!

Who needs a bottle opener...I just use my teeth like a real man Disclaimer: I'm kidding

Happened to find that table in someone's driveway on trash day last week...you know you are addicted to brewing when you see garbage and think "grain mill stand".

Here's my new ugly junk...now if only I had some grain to crush! Thanks for the help in this forum!

Ok well here's what I went with: "Corona" style mill from discount tommy ($26) Getting keg from FIL (free) Getting used commercial front loading freezer from FIL for fermentation (free) Building my stir plate tomorrow ($35 in parts including flask) Found a nice rolling cart for grain mill on...

Can anyone help me decide between this aquarium Controller or the Control Products TC-9102D-HV on amazon? Need a controller for my fermentation freezer (salvaged commercial SS freezer from a Mexican fast food establishment). Thanks!

Haha well the reason I won is because I am running a marathon in May...somehow running 35 miles a week makes overweight people lose weight! Maybe after May though!

Thanks for the great advice. This is a great website, even though the wife is less than happy with my new "addiction" :mug: Per your advice, I will definitely start looking into some sort of temperature control (even if it is a swamp cooler for now), a corona mill setup, DIY stirplate and...

A corona mill may be an option. Definitely plan on cutting the keg as long is it is a 1/2 barrel. I don't have any weldless fittings laying around, but I could always add the extras to the keggle later.

A grain mill was my other other initial thought as well, but I can see that leading to a world of bulk grain and needing storage vessels for it!

Depending on the season, winter I've got a large closet I can use that stays around 68. During the summer I expect my basement to be around the same temp. This is my first summer as a novice brewer so we will see soon enough.

Hi all, just won a biggest loser competition at work so I have some money the wife can't touch! I'm trying to figure out my next move in acquiring equipment. I'm a pretty big DIY guy...Anyway although I'm still a newb, I know this is a hobby that is going to stick. Here is my current...