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This is my new dip tube.

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the dog's cute too.

Sweat! Great hobby, eh?

Now that is just the kind of brewing wisdom that you can't get in any moldy book, only on HBT.

Hot wort or water, sanitizer, grains, who knows what it was this time.

Here's my tips: Beef is more of a challenge than pork. Beef can become bitter/dry with too much smoke/time. For a first effort, try smoking for three hours, then braise w/liquid/sauce in dutch oven in your stove at 300 until done. This will take awhile. Good luck, it will be great!

I was just reading about "hot-packing" wort on the home brewing wiki and maybe you would think it's interesting... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/No_Chill_Method

http://www.homebrewing.org/9-Gallon-SS-Brew-Pot-AIH_p_2132.html?AffId=160

Ten-gallon rubbermaid with false bottom here.

Really!? Maybe you should skip the auto sparge arm if we're on to something here.

I noticed (completely by accident the first time) that if say, 80% of the way through my wort collection, that if I sparge too slowly and allow my grain bed to compact, say by half, and continue to sparge but on the compacted bed, my efficiency goes from my average 75-80% to about 90%. I did...

Sometimes I just need to hide in the basement if you know what I mean.

No pressing need. Mostly because I enjoy experimenting. I was curious about getting water to sub-boiling o2 levels for topping off brews in the secondary, managing a yeast bank, and even for dilution of a high gravity brew. I was thinking of preparing a five gallon batch of water with the c02...

10 gallon rubbermaid, domed false bottom, fly sparging Hi: 82% Low: 58% Average: 72-76% I've had better luck crushing my own grains vs buying them crushed.

This batch is no good, please send to me for detailed analysis.

Has anyone tried to make very low <1ppm oxygen water at home? I was wondering if hooking up CO2 to a diffusion stone and pushing the CO2 through the water while it as boiling would mimic the process breweries use?

I have been trying out this thing which is 30 gallons. It cost $45. I like being able to bang-up one starter for the whole batch (12gal). But then you have to use oxygen, and there are other problems. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JFL6X8/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

I bottled half a batch, realized I forgot the priming sugar, "decanted" all the bottles back into the bottling bucket threw in the priming sugar not dissolved in water and stirred it up! Turned out ok.

I got one thing right, that's a Edens Organic BPA-free can. Stainless I think they are actually.