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They are all 7.5 gallon, except the one with the blowoff tube, it's only five, but it looks so cute next to it's big brothers. :) Then there is a seven gallon pail and an eight gallon white plastic one behind the five gallon carboy. It still smelled like chardonnay, so I hope my Wit doesn't...

Hey all. I know it's been a while since I have been around. I'm glad to see this thread is still going strong. I hadn't been on for a while and got logged off, couldn't remember my password and finally got around to getting it reset today. Not much new with me, work eat and sleep. Finally...

Hey all. I took a little break from the computer and television, trying to free up some time to get some stuff done. What can I say, good plan, poor execution. Funny how much meaningless stuff one can find to do when procrastination is in overdrive. We finally had our first 50 degree day a week...

It took me a while to catch up on the chicken magicians, cheese stretchers, inflatable dudes and the evil bitch named Debby. Bobbi, this year you will have to brew a wheat and dump it on a bunch of those blackberries in the secondary. Have a nice blackberry wheat. I was going to last year but...

If you are trying to be a smartass the first thing you have to be is smart.

Interesting post by John Palmer. I guess we all had to start somewhere. And he must have got a dose of live yeast. :) Which reminds me of feeding a yeast supplement to my dairy cows. You had to kind of introduce it gradually, with that large of a digestive system and all the fermentables in...

Last time I brewed I bottled during the boil and dumped the new batch on the yeast cake from what I bottled. Worked pretty good. Have to have everything lined up and ready or else it wouldn't have worked. But I refrain from drinking until I have the yeast pitched otherwise who knows what I would...

I haven't been watching the thread but I have seen that pump. To me it looks a bit small. I have been considering the 12V solar system pump. Not as powerful as a Chugger or a March but they would more than likely do the job. I just don't know if the $25 a piece savings over the polysulfone...

I just got back from Menards $250 poorer. Good thing I only needed odds and ends. And I still forgot to pick some things up but they are just....odds and ends...... Of course I still need pumps, silicone tubing, quick disconnects and on and on and on. Pretty soon though I will be able to quit...

I'm headed up to Menards in a bit to pick up some wiring supplies and a few other odds and ends. I have all the components for my electric build and figured I better start putting together the control panels if I'm ever going to start brewing on this system, and with the money I have spent if I...

If you want to do potatoes in a container just get a bunch of old tires. Fill one with dirt and plant your seed potatoes and when the plant is tall enough throw another tire on top and fill it with dirt. Just keep doing that and by fall you will have a tower of potatoes. Once soil temperatures...

The Marshall Tucker Band is still around. Doug Grey is the only original member of the band. The Caldwell brothers were the heart and soul of the band, and with them having both passed on as far as I'm concerned it just isn't Marshall Tucker any more.

Sounds like you had an adventure in the big city, Bobbi. It's good to get away and do something different every once in a while, recharges the batteries, so to speak. Now you should be able to take up the possum hunt with renewed vigor! :) Not much new here, more snow and I had to chip the ice...

Spring will officially be here in a week. Of course it snowed again today. And more over the weekend. And even more the first of the week. The forecasters are saying if you don't have a place to pile snow, you better find one. March is being a lion this year. I haven't been doing any shoveling...

Or you could rack the amber in with the wheat and add some more bugs. Maybe mix up a gallon and a half of wort and add to get five gallons, just to dilute the hops. Sounds like time for a science experiment! :D

It finally quit snowing. For now. It's been at it since Saturday, it was supposed to be rain but i guess the forecasters were a little off on the temperatures. It was an interesting ride into work last night and I ended up getting stuck this morning. Then the village snowplow went by and it got...

"Cheese rennet is 80% chymosin and 20% pepsin. Junket is 80% pepsin, so it is much weaker than cheese rennet. Even if you use more of it to compensate for this, there is so much pepsin in junket that it increases protein breakdown to the point where there are problems when the cheese ages."...

I finally did some beer stuff today. I had a Russian Imperial Stout that had been sitting on the yeast since I brewed it Thanksgiving weekend, finally got it in the secondary on some oak. About time, I have been very lazy this winter. I also started a batch of Chardonnay that had been sitting in...

You want to sniff my what!!????

Yea, officially it will be here in 12 days. Not that that makes much difference around here. Maybe another month and it will be a bit springlike. The buds are starting to swell on the maple trees. The syrup producers are getting ready to start tapping, an awful short season last year. I think...