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I'm getting the Monster Mill. Ordered it today, should ship tomorrow and be here in 1-2 weeks. I'll tell you all about it once it gets here.

Wow, good luck I hope you get it! If you do, can I have a beer?

I'm in the same boat.. well a similar one. Check out the monster mills, you'll need to build a hopper and base, but $99 plus $38 shipping gets you in just under £70. CrankandStein doesn't mention international shipping but you could mail them. As for my mill, I bought the B3 grain gobbler...

Good luck, bring your rubber boots and don't pick your butt while they're looking.

I just found this awesome thing: http://brew.stderr.net/refractometer.html Corrects for the alcohol during fermentation. Just enter your OG and your current refractometer reading voila! converted to specific gravity.

A lot of it depends on the health of the yeast at the beginning. Did you pitch in a bunch of happy, health, sugar chomping monsters, or were they flacid, half dead, trub-encrused bug food? A month is fine if you have happy yeast at the beginning. Pitching crapped out yeast is asking for problems.

Hot side aeration (HSA) is very different from post fermentation aeration (PFA). HSA is a problem for long term stability and shelf life of beer. This is much more a problem if the beer does not have any strong flavors (eg American Lager or Helles) to cover the defects. Also the darker kilned...

Sounds like infection to me. Depressurize the keg and take a look inside to see what's growing.

Interesting, I don't think I've heard anyone really talk about brewing water as a ratio of alkalinity and hardness. I would be interested to see how this system goes in the mash tun. I don't know much about water chemistry, but my understanding was that the actually quantities of Ca, Mg and...

Especially true with the lighter kilned malts (pilsner etc) which have more DMS precurser. Can you drive off enough DMS-p in a 30 min boil? Maybe. If you try it and have some vegetal off flavors in your beer, at least you will know where to change. As for the late hopping it is a great...

Tablespoons or teaspoons?

You might want to back off on the spices. 7 tsp of spice in a 5 gallon batch seems very strong. Maybe try boiling some water and adding your spices to it to make a tea, then dose it in a keg.

1- Yeah, 7 months is a long time to be sitting on the protein etc from the break and yeast. You would probably want to move it after a month or so. 2- No. You do carbonate your Barley Wine. It is lower carbonation, but you do add sugar when you bottle (as well as to the boil). 3- I dunno. I...

Don't worry. A gradual start is better for your beer.

Hops are good for you. The various hp extracts are used by macro breweries for a few reasons, typically finacial/ product consistency reasons with the no- skunking as an added bonus. My understanding is that they are not very practical on the homebrew scale.

Congratulations! You must really love brewing, sounds like it's your work and hobby, and you've only been at it 6 months. Awesome. Learn all you can from the Head Brewer... and then pass it on to us.

Banana, yes, metalic, no. Most of the Belgian yeasts I've used put out a lot of banana during fermentation. What temperature is it at? Anything new in your process?

I would have said to bring some rubber boots and offer to start on the spot. Tell them that you'll leave if someone better shows up. Also take a shower and dress nicely but ready to work (aka clean carhartts) don't bite your nails or pick your nose when anyone is looking. Pay attention to...

I have a lot of trouble tasting my beer flat... I can drink it no problem, but the final flavors are a mystery. Carb it up and drink it. Do not worry about adjusting this batch of beer, you can adjust the next, or tha one after that. If you do someting odd to it now you will not know if the...

The beta acids also contribute to bittering. Some feel they add a smoother bittering (or maybe it was harsher...) but typically they are felt to add such a neglegable amount of bittering since they don't isomerize in the boil (or maybe they boiled off, I don't remember well, it's before 7 and I...