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You'll get differing opinions on that for sure. Best way to find out is to try it yourself and compare. I enjoy brewing so it's not like it's some huge inconvenience to me.

TBH Hobo, if you do almost anything (or...nothing, just let it sit) to your mash for 5 hours you'll probably increase efficiency.:) Grain is cheap, I don't worry about high efficiency (consistent efficiency, yes). So what if I have to add another pound of $1-something malt. Cidah, you want...

No offense Hobo but this paragraph is very wrong. The 'alpha' and 'beta' are reversed and you can't really 'saw' the mash temp like that (well, you can...if you like spinning your wheels). Once you increase the temp much above 150-ish the beta-amylase starts to denature and doesn't work...

Thanks. It was the name of a beer I made, then I needed a screenname when I joined so I just picked the first thing that came to mind. Then I won one of Deep Sea's mash paddles in the first HBT comp and had to come up with something for him to engrave on the handle and Spanish Castle Brewery...

Those glasses are sold at Target. For me if I must, skunky beer needs a lime. Carryover from Corona I'm sure. I don't like it but some people love the skunk. My mother's favorite homebrew is a Belgian Pale Ale that I intentionally light-struck. So now I bottle a few lighter beers in green...

The force is strong in this one.

I'd certainly be game for that. But I'd be getting the good end of the deal, I've only made 2 meads and the first one is only ~3.5 months old. I'll probably enter them in my club's mead-only competition in May next year, so I should know how well it stacks up.

I carry around full carboys just like that. [/BS]

:off: What you just posted reminded me of a recent Brewers Gathering meeting. A member who brews a fantastic Serrano Pale Ale decided to add Habaneros this time (and not tell us, until after...it was pretty hot). Right after we sampled his Serrano/Habanero Pale Ale we sampled a semi-sweet...

passedpawn, thread got a little long but did you see the gem scrambledegg posted at bottom of page 2 itt?

Would using smoked peppers be a mistake? I have a few smoked habaneros a friend gave me (frozen) but they are super hot (all his peppers are hotter than grocery store equivalents). I only have 3.5 gal total of my first mead (traditional) and want to try something like this for a portion of...

Went to see Jaws III IN 3D!!!!! when it first came out. We had peeled a couple bananas before and were just laughing because it was so bad.

Just curious, but what evidence (other than anecdotal) do you have that pitching at the same temp is best? Are you basing your belief on any scientific studies that prove this or just because several books said so?

I'll be shutting up now WW.:) Oh but lemme add this; I thought I had read that there is a bunch of phosphate in malt, so much that it dwarfs any amount we might be adding by pH adjustment with phosphoric acid. So adding a bit of phosphoric shouldn't affect the Calcium content much.

Thanks emjay. I did not know it was used in flavored waters.

Interested in an answer to Wildwest's question and while we're on the topic of Phosphoric acid (and esp regarding the claim that it is 'flavor neutral'), the stuff we use at work stinks to high heaven. Does the stuff used for brewing stink? Or is the question more of whether the phosphate ion...

Finally got around to making this about 3 weeks ago, racked it over the weekend. As expected, FG was 0.996. I still don't get how this is supposed to finish so much higher using 18% tolerant yeast.

scrambledegg, Thanks! I'm drooling like Jabba. jsweet, Couldn't remember the name but that friggin Jar-Jar almost made me turn it off right there. Almost unwatchable. Agree about Annakin, have they not seen how the American public loves to throw the good-guy-turned-bad in front of the bus...

I don't really care much about HCOTY but if there is anything that could make me care less about it, it would be that ginormous 'internet homebrew clubs' qualify to enter. Just guessing here but my guess is that the NHC doesn't 'qualify' any club. It's simply a matter of which 'club' got...

Whichever one had the scantily clad Princess chained to Jabba was the best. Yea, I'm shallow like that. Haven't seen all of the 'new' ones but did not like what I saw. Figured it was just because I was older...and no scantily clad Princess.