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this sounds like a DEA or ATF trap to me.

I hear you on the lifting part. but i have to go with a 2x6 because a 2x4 will be tight with a keg on the hump once the connectors are on it. I have some 1 inch wide 3/4" thick weather stripping i plan to use with the collar plus caulk. My plan is to keep the collar stationary and only lift the...

digital temp on the front is cool

I won't toss it. however the compressor is most likely shot. It has no pressure in the system and it had been running days like that when i was out of town. its not a quick fix but i have an AC guy and we will come up with something so we can use a more up to date coolant. it was struggling...

so my big beautiful bev-air two tower stainless kegerator bit the dust. it's old and uses R12. was found yrs ago and given to me for free and I got about 4 or 5 yrs out of it. but it's no longer getting cold and compressor is making a heck of a racket and most likely shot. so my problem is I...

Nottingham yeast.

i've kept unwashed notty in a jar for 6 months and it came back when i made a starter with it. i don't think anything else survived that long though except kveik yeasts.

I bought a house like yours. I dug the floor out by hand and wheel barrowed it out the side. but i was putting in a basement addition so knocking out a stone wall made that possible. but as was said, they made beer in caves in wooden fermenters. i'm brewing two beers right now with kviek...

weekend won't be great so i brewed tonight. and since i have two burners on my king kooker from HD and a ladder big enough to hang a bag off each side i did a twofer. 10 gallons of mango/citra IPA. 5 gallons of an apple ale with exp. apple crisp hops that will also get some apples in the...

I don't use a plate chiller or JB. but I have two portable keggerators. One made out of a square garbage can for 2 5 gallon kegs with foam and sprayfoam insulation and one made out of a cooler for 2 3 gallon kegs. I use silicone hose and have about 15ft for each beer line coiled up and hanging...

I didn't have any vinegar so i went with the peroxide and baking soda spritze last night after tearing all but one bine out. the one not infected. this morning it had some leaves with black on the bottom so i yanked that one also. when i pull them they are usually attached to extensions from the...

looking at the lowest leaves, they are starting to get some black on the underside and i found a weed with some powder on the leaves. what are my options? I've read spray with hydrogen peroxide mixture. i can just cut them all down again also and see what comes up. these are 4th yr hops. i'd...

This is how my two hartwicks look. I tore out all the really bad bines down to the root and left the good ones but now the biggest good one is starting to discolor. We did get a lot of rain the last week and some of the roots have popped out of the ground so i added more soil to the raised bed...

aphids are usually green. they could be spider mites but i didn't think that many would attach themselves in one place. I mix insecticidal soap and neem oil in a garden sprayer and give my hops a good shower every other week and they stay relatively pest free. I still get an aphid exodus while...

my hartwick hops look like that except i have two plants in one large planter. i usually just go with 4 or 5 bines but there are so many this yr i think i'll see what happens when i go to 8 or 10.

I brewed a blonde last summer and used Lutra just to see. the beer guys who drank it thought i had the wrong label on the tap because they said it tasted a lot like a lager. i used centenial and amarillo and it only had about 20 ibu's. it was crisp but i had some specialty grain in there that i...

is the Zeus 1 plant or 2? that's a lot of lines.

ok. so it's sour. but the pineapple flavor is non-existent. i used 2 1/2lbs to 2ish gallons of beer and nada. aroma is there though. next time i'll damn the pineapples to hell on the grill to get a good caramelized flavor then freeze and just toss in the secondary. when i pureed i put in a bag...

my hops came up all over the bed like corn. cut them all back a week or so ago. new ones popped up again everywhere and a few gentle squeezes of each one told me which were hollow. I just found some bines a few feet long under my deck. it's crazy how these things grow.

giving this another try this week with less corn. there was an after taste i just did not like and i'm pretty sure it was the corn.