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Me too. If the pump deal falls through, I'll jump on it,

All good advice above. I brewed a Stone Ruination clone and had the same problem too. I did try to do a filtering with a paint strainer bag around the auto siphon, all it gave me was headaches with a clogged strainer bag and a painfully slow siphon, and adding time to transferring. from pot...

When my neighbor first saw me outside brewing, he asks me "whatcha doin, cookin meth?" and laughs. Me: SHUT UP!! Someone hears that and sees me, I'm getting raided anyway, just cause of you. Then you ain't getting any beer.

I haven't had a cracked bottle cap, like the other posters, but I have had a bottle completely leak out all over. I stored it in a cardboard box, and it fell over inside the box. The cap on the storage side was loose to let more air in to transfer to measuring side easier. Dummy me left it loose...

So for Thanksgiving I picked up a six pack of Long Ireland Celtic Ale from the local beer distributor (Daves Bellport Beer and Soda- AWESOME shop, best place I get my brews from). Now I bought it cause I have had this while out on the town as a tap, but this time was a huge difference from tap...

I ordered 2 samples. A 26 oz bottle and a 30 oz bottle. I realized after I ordered the 26 oz that it allowed me to order other items for free samples, so I tried to get it. Guess we'll find out in a few days if they both show up.

I usually do cold in bottom, hot out of top of coil. The hottest part of the wort is the top, like any other fluid. It really will not make much of a difference in rate of cooling cause by the time the water has hit the bottom of the coil, it has already been exposed to the hottest fluids around...

Definitely +1 on the Oxiclean soaks. I use a cooler of hot ater and 1-2 scoops of Oxiclean. Labels usually fall off in an hour or 2, or just a small peel off after soak. Some fall off very fast and some take more time. A green scrubbie and the glue comes right off the bottles. That is how I...

There has to be a way around it, there are other micros up there that already are established and never hit those numbers. Hopefully it's just a formality of the law they do not enforce. I would ask the ownerships how they got by it. Hopefully there's an owner or two that's willing to take you...

It's the bending over to stick your head in the bucket!!!! It hurts your back. :)

Thanks Pie-Man. I usually brew 10 weeks before being ready for most batches I've done, 1 month primary then bottle for 6 weeks is my usual practice so I lost my time guess. I get good results with that, so thats what I keep doing for my practice. Going to do the starter anyway and brew in 3...

Ordered an AHS Holiday Stout kit on Monday, still waiting on delivery. Want to brew/bottle in time for Christmas. Have not been able to brew earlier due to my knee, blew it out Labor Day and now really catching up and able to do this. I know the time frame for it to be ready for Xmas, but...

Lately, the wife has been taking them to her friends houses and friends atg work and just giving them away. Now everyone wants more and wants more. Actually had someone want a 6er to go to his brother in laws house down in NC with. The batch costed me 60 bucks to make and shes just giving the...

AHS order: 2 cases wine bottles for mead, wine bottle corker, corker, Sam Adams Summer Ale kit, more Star San (I'm out). Cant wait til next week now, gotta brew a starter this weekend in the ouring rain.

Definitely, step it up. I just brewed a Ruination, in dry hop now. Mine was at 1.088 with an alcohol boost. Man that thing was ROCKIN' fermenting. Thought is had enough head space in a 7 gal ale pail, wrong. Enjoy the Ruination.

Hmmm, watching this one closely. And I thought it was mine or the pump but I could not find which of the 2 it would be. Boiled the crap outta my stone for 15 mins and well over a half hour and still nothing. Blow thru the stone and I get restriction, but it blows. Put it on the pump, nothing at...

I just spit brew all over my laptop!!!

Wow, those are really great looking, BRAVO!! Thanks for the pictoral, it actually helped me out on my next set of boxes. My last ones came out good, but nowhere close to these as I started with 1x12 pine and also not having the advanced wood shop that ya'll got. I'm doing mine on down time out...

I filled both of my 6.9 gal primaries, the 5 gal sanitizing bucket, 2 3 gal, pots and the tub. Leaving for work in am and expecting to be there for 2-3 days. Still didnt fill the carbor or my 10 gal pot. I just don't trust my bottling bucket home alone filled for that amount of time yet.

Awesome to hear, thanks. Just needed a vote of confidence to get my azz up and do it. with everything going on around home lately its getting hard to put a 4 hour block together to Git er Done, so I was afraid of maybe getting off schedule.