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I vote you don't add any spices.

I vote you don't add spices.

Stealing this from BlindLemonLars, except I don't know how to make it just say one blue highlit word: http://www.moviewavs.com/0095461785/WAVS/Movies/Napoleon_Dynamite/lucky.wav

What Talley said goes for me too. Except I'm not planning to take a break, just planning to get more extract/grain brews under my belt and switch over to AG in time to brew a St. Patties day beer. Or at least PM-ing. I'm a mimic, a moron, a mimic, a copyer, an in-the-box thinker... What...

That's one way to do it. Some folks are using the condensation drain hole for that purpose, if one's available. Others are squeezing the CO2 tank into the inside of the kegerator with the cornies.

Hey, sometimes I'm the bird, sometimes I'm the statue... Oh yeah, my SWMBO tried it a few times but finally gave up porter after a bad hangover...

Landhoney -- do a search on this site for Edmund Fitzgerald -- I think you're caught halfway between understanding and being baked...

Exactly same vote, here. +1

Nice, welcome Sarasota! I'll be visiting for a few days from 4-7 November -- you'll have to let me know about some great bars/pubs/clubs, especially if they have great live music or hot chicks dancing, along with a few non BMC beers available!

If it needs to be ready in 4 weeks or so, you're looking at keeping the OG to something under 1.050, maybe even under 1.046. Also, no "funny stuff" that takes time to mellow out in the bottle --- honey, molasses, spices, etc. I say brew something like you originally thought, but plan on it...

Yes, straining out the whole leaf hops especially.

Yeah, duh, I'm such a putz -- my big order from NB came today and sure as sh!t I had ordered a pound of amarillo. I got them, and a pound each of cascades, summit, galena, and sterling. Way overboard, but I'll 'git 'er done'!

I missed this whole thread til now, glad to hear the stress is behind you now, Bird, and that your daughter is well on the road to recovery! Now -- start thinking about the Sox!

Wheat -- it went up to like $9.50 a few weeks back. Used to be about $4. Supposedly worldwide demand, draughts in Auz/NZ, the ethanol thing Bird mentioned, etc., etc..

one word --- DIPSTICK I kind of seewhat cheese is saying - after a couple of weeks "Gee hon, I don't know why I can't sell it at that giveaway price. maybe I should just keep it...

Use a blowoff tube! Wheats with hefe yeast can ferment very aggressively! I use a 6.5 gallon carboy for my hefes and all but 1 batch has actually pushed foam up into the blowoff tube. Use a large plastic tube with a tight fit into the neck of carboy -- sanitize the tube first - then put the...

Cool, rated for 15-40 gallons - so it shouldn't have too much trouble keeping 6 gallons warm in a basement in the 50's. Might be tough in a garage, though!

Oh, thanks for the post on the pumpkinhead, Adolphus! I still have yet to try any pumpkin beer (drink or brew) -- maybe in the next few weeks, seems like there are dozens of them out this year.

I'm not all that fond of the Shipyards, I wonder if the yeast is why... Then again, I tend to order it on tap when I'm in the boonies of Maine and it's the only halfway local beer they stock -- usually the only non BMC -- I wonder if I'm just getting stale beer...

I used HB_99's recipe the first time I brewed a hefe -- it's easier than mine, and like he says it's a great session brew. (Thanks again, Bill!) But after a few batches I've come to love the Franziskaner clone - since the Franzi is my favorite, this one's my most regular beer. Also, read up...