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Being as I auto drafted anyways I am fine with what I got although it ain't great. What can I say, I'm a gambler. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

With a chance at winning 9 bombers, how could I not join?

Nothing to contribute here but I was always wondering how you control final gravity, so I will be listening in here. Good luck!

I just joined. If we do it next weekend I will have to auto draft. No worries though!

Well I checked the gravity on Tuesday (9 days of fermentation) and I am at 11%! Those yeast were some beasts. I did use a starter but only 1 package and about 24 hrs of headstart. The yeast was a 1056 American Ale yeast smack pack. It didn't taste "hot" or alcoholic but it didn't taste good...

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Congrats in the dubbel by the way. Have you tasted it over the 5 years or was that your first one to taste? 5 years is quite a goal, I don't know how I am going to manage 21 years.

Good luck with the carbonation. I was reading about he possibility of rep itching a small amount of yeast before bottling, don't remember the recommendations that I read but I figured I would worry about that when I get to the bottling phase. Regarding the style, I went with barley wine for 2...

Good to know. So at the 1 month how carbonated is it? Holy krausen! On Sunday morning there was barely any but I could tell the yeast were working on it. By Sunday night it was about an inch thick. This morning it has filled the carboy with about 1 inch of room at the top left to grow...

So it took me from about 9am to midnight, but I did it! The Carboy is bubbling away in a cooler of 65 degree water. It was quite he epic experience. Both batches had a boil time of about 3 hrs each to get down to the target gravity of about 1.115. I ended up with a total if about 4.5 gallons...

Brew day is here again! It's been a while since I checked in on this, been busy getting baby stuff set up. We did do a brew on July 4 that was a cream ale and it should be ready on Friday. On to the barley wine! I am going with the idea of 2 separate all grain batches combined in the Carboy...

I do now! I guess that means I can keep my handle. Installed a spigot on my ale pail and on my mash tun the week. It all tested just fine, but it will get its real test this weekend when I attempt a barley wine.

St Arnold Bishops Barrel 3 and 6. It's good stuff and has a ridiculous cult following. This bar started the day selling all 7 Bishops barrels and now they only have #6.

So I have 1 brew kettle that has gotten me along for a couple of years now. I want to add a weldless spigot to it. My question is can once I make the conversion can I still boil in it? I know the rubber gaskets are at least good enough for mash temps, but would boiling be too hot for them?

Good to know. I am headed to the brew shop tomorrow to research false bottoms and spigot installation, so I might as well break down and get the step bit if I am going to install it myself. We will see what I find out tomorrow! Thanks for the advice

So for a whopping $2 I bought a spigot to attach to my ale pail. The store said to use a 1" drill bit. I have a 1-1/8" at home but no 1" bit. Would that extra 1/8" make it leak? On the one hand I don't want to go buy another bit, but I also don't want to screw up the first time and end up...

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For 10 bucks that's probably money we'll spent. I certainly haven't given up, just been busy and then went on a mini vacation but I'm back! No time to brew anything this weekend or next, but maybe the weekend of July 4th. This weekend was devoted to our anniversary and a nice long broker smoke.