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Just did 5gal of pale ale. 1291.3 + 5 = 1296.3

I'm one such mutant. Cilantro and coriander are one in the same to us weirdos. That is why I turn inside out on a Belgian beer. The yeast gives me that soapy taste. When I do a Saison, I use the French 3711 yeast, a malty backbone, and dry it down a lot to kill the coriander flavor. Sucks...

That's what I figured. Oh well, it was worth a shot for the price. Will proceed with Wards.

Recently I took a sample of my water from a spring source that I use to be tested by a local brewery. They offered and it was free, so figured why not? This is what I was sent back. Total Hardness - 278ppm Ca Hardness - 148ppm Alkalinity - 0ppm pH - 7.04 Free Chlorine - 4ppb Total...

Is 13/16" the actual size of the hole made by the punch or is it a pipe ID sizing? I'm looking to use a punch for the pull through fittings from Bobby M at brew hardware on my keggles and not sure if this is it. I've read there is a difference between the radio punch sizes and the conduit punch...

I was genetically altered when young and enhanced with Salmon DNA. I swim upstream against the current and seek the source of good beer... Ok, Most all my searches came back to HBT from Google. Figured I might as well jump in here. I'm a DIY kinda guy and this site is great for that. BTW, this...

5gal of German Pilsner and 5 gal of Black lager in primary. Will drop another 5gal of Pale Ale Saturday.

Looks great!

I have three. One is an oatmeal stout I've done 5 times and keep refining. Another is an IPA I keep submitting into contests and refining and have done 4 times now. The last is a Pilsner I've done 5 times now and just tweaked again. The IPA is has been done mostly the same with Vienna...

5gal of German Pilsner and 5gal of black lager so 5+5+1090.5=1100.5

I can't do piney or grassy well at all. I am more into tropical, fruity, citrus, earthy, spicy.

I made a bottle brush that seems to work well. It is a wooden dowel rod I chuck up in a cordless drill. The tip has a small flat head wood screw holding two small pieces of Velcro in a cross fashion. I shove it in the bottle and scrub the bottom with the bottle about 1/3 full of PBW water. Tilt...

Barb fittings for anything I've owned. Should have gone with cams to start. I've changed connectors way too many times. pH strips. My home made immersion chiller. My ex-wife who kept me from brewing for 20 years and being happy.

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Going to brew 5gal each of a Pilsner and a Black Lager this weekend. Debating whether or not to try and cram them both in on one day.

I think pine should stay in Pine-sol and out of beer, particularly high IBU IPA's. If I taste a beer and it seems like I just finished chewing on a pine tree air freshener and rinsed it out with Pine-sol, I will pour it out in front of you for having tortured me this way. If I ask if it is piney...

I think I can tell more about a dark beer like a stout or porter doing this than I can a pale or IPA. Most lighter beers taste way different to me at this stage than after bottle curing. Most times though, if it is good now, it only tastes better later unless it gets infected during bottling.

Looks like I did 17 five gallon batches in 2016 of various styles. So 85 + 24014.5 = 24099.5

Only thing to ever slow down my gun obsession was brewing. I am a recovering gun whore. I still hunt, but not as much as I did. Older age and brewing again have slowed me down. Most all of mine are for hunting or target. A few defense pistols and very few collectibles. I primarily hunt...

The third all grain recipe I did was an oatmeal stout. It was a disaster of a brew from the word go. We missed every temperature and water volume. We went with too little into the fermenter, took forever to cold crash the kettle due to using our homemade IC chiller for the first time, spilled...