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I have both. The metal one is best. I had a plastic one before and it snapped one day while bottling a RIS. My second plastic one is only used when I have a friend helping.

A delicious, fruity IPA from a local brewery (Tank Puncher IPA/Reunion Brewery Coralville, IA). Definitely try one if you are lucky enough to get your hands on one.

Love your choice of beer! Seriously, as mentioned, this will pass at some point. In the meantime, get married privately and start your lives together. And then when it is possible, have the gathering (and renewal of vows, if you decide) that you and your significant other want. You won't...

Anything further on this? I have a 10-gallon electric BrewEasy tha I just watch like a hawk. One mistake I made was to let the kettle go during the mash rest. I caught it pretty early but it still brought my temps up enough such that I had to add cool water and watch it closely. I haven't...

I have a setup similar to yours. I had to build a shower curtain around the kettle - I just bought a cheap clear plastic one from Bed Bath and Beyond, and built a shower rod out of 1" pvc pipe. It was easy. You will also need to add an inlet source for bringing in fresh air. Best if you can...

More hops:yes:

Give my stomach to Mikwaukee if they run out of beer Throw my socks in cedar box just get 'em on outta here, Venus De Milo can have my arms, Look out! I got your nose, Give my heart to the junk man, and give my love to Rose... But please don't bury me down in that cold, cold ground, Tell 'em...

I have made the Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit/Mesquite Honey mead before. It is an old Charlie Papazian "Complete Joy of Homebrewing" recipe. I can say without a doubt that it is the best mead I have ever tasted. It is a big one at 18%, so it needs 5+ years of aging. I am going to try to hang on...

Brewed a couple of meads on Friday. Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit/Mesquite Honey mead in the left, and a Pineapple mead on the right. Both will be sweet meads.

I have a 10 gallon BrewEasy. Bad back, and this makes brewing very simple:) When I remember to put it in, my Hop Blocker is the ticket for boils and whirlpooling. In the fermenter, I use a hop filter but instead of putting hops in it, I throw the pellets in the beer and use the hop filter as a...

I brewed a Pliny the Elder clone. 10 gallons, 34 oz of hops when it's all said and done. Pic is when I was adding the Simcoes at 30 minutes.

Old thread, new post. I have been using brown sugar in a barley wine I have been making for 20 years. I use a good, organic dark brown sugar that has an incredibly delicious smoky molasses flavor. I have received many compliments on my BW including that it is the best BW some have tasted...

2016 Old Rasputin.

I cellar my barley wines and RISs. I have 3 batches currently in my cellar, all barley wines, of 7 years and 3 years. The 7-year old is spectacular. I brought it and a 2008 Bigfoot to our homebrew club meeting. The consensus was that it blew the Bigfoot away. I only have 5 bottles left of...

Yes, wheat will keep for years if stored in a sealed, dry container in a cool place.

Check the date - Clarity Ferm does have an expiration date.

This is in the instructions that come with Clarity Ferm. As a clarifying agent or as a gluten reducing agent, it must be added with or just prior to the yeast being pitched. I add it after I rack the chilled wort into my carboys. I add the Clarity Ferm, pitch the yeast, oxygenate, then I...

My celiac friends provided me with the proof I needed. But for the scientifically-minded brewer, here is a scientific explanation of what exactly happens with Brewer's Clarex/Clarity-Ferm (from "http://noglutennoproblem.blogspot.com/2010/10/product-review-estrella-damm-daura.html"). I am not a...

I and Charlie would beg to differ with you - go to this link - "http://www.examiner.com/beer-in-national/gluten-free-beer-reduced-gluten-beer-offers-real-beer-taste-for-celiac-impaired" (For some reason the URL option does not work on this site, so I just posted the URL.) And I have used...

I cannot say as I have never had issues with clarity in any of my beers. Sorry