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Once... We didn't take any readings, no idea how long we chilled it, and we couldn't find the yeast the next morning so we had to assume we pitched it. It turns out we did. I do remember coming into the house and our wives making us play dance party on the wii while they laughed at us.

I know I'm not supposed to ask, but I really want to see a picture of this...

My dad let me try beer when I was 5 or 6, I didn't like it and have never abused alcohol since because of my family's openness to it. My son is almost a year, and I'll let him sample every once in a while in a few years. I'm also going to make soda with him on brew days so we both have special...

Old comment, but I don't think the master broke the time lock. The high council of Galafray broke the time lock using the master. Unless they tried something else along a similar vein, the time lock is intact. I haven't been able to see any of the new ones. The space channel that I get stopped...

+1 to rdwdah. The only issue is if you ever decide to do some lagering, you might get some off flavors by not sanitizing fully. Or if you decide to harvest yeast... Something to keep in mind if you ever go those directions, but not to worry about now.

Ah, I see what your saying. If I simply used a heat exchanger I would short cycle the boiler, thus your suggestion to use the dhw. Hmm, I will have to do some more thinking about it then. The way our plumbing contractors usually set everything up is to use a high temp loop and a low temp. The...

I'm not too worried about the engineering/controls. I install the controls for work and would do it all myself. I'm just not as familiar with the ins and outs on the actual plumbing side, eg the rate of rise expected from a boiler set at 180. I just do 5 gallon batches, would it still not be...

Haha, I'm not sure if I should be laughing or +1ing this or offering my condolences.

Wow, I've never caught until now that an imperial gallon is not part of the imperial measurement system, but is in fact a metric measurement. So the US uses imperial measurements, but not imperial gallons. Everybody else uses metric measurements, and imperial gallons. Who thought of that...

Part of your confusion may be that a US gallon IS an imperial gallon. The rest of the world uses UK or metric measurements.

Doesnt matter what the pipe is. The loop I would use would be closed using whatever liquid inside and whatever material for the pipe (plastic, copper, ss). The heat is introduced into the loop through a heat exchanger from the boiler. I would probably end up using flexible copper pipe inside...

My wife and I are designing our next house, and we would like to put a hydronic heating system in rather than a forced air. For those not familiar, it uses loops of water lines installed in the floor of the entire house, filled with a water/glycol mix and heated by an on demand water system...

So its really just a matter of clarity, not of taste then? Why clarify at all if a filter is used? On another note, Will having a wine sitting for an extended period (4 or 5 weeks) on it's yeast bed and oak chips cause flavour issues such as tannins, or is that only when skins are used?

I brew a lot of beer, but my wife and I are just on our second batch of wine (from a kit) . I usually take a RDWHAH approach, and don't even use a secondary for my beer. I keg straight out of the primary and use the keg to clear the beer. However, with wine, I see that after transferring to the...

+1 on the hot side aeration being an issue (an issue over 80° I believe). Making sure I didn't aerate too hot made a pretty decent difference in the final taste of all my beers. On a side note though, I think there's quite a few more factors to the boil than sterilizing and hop use. You've got...

That sucks, I had a whole five step plan made up on how to take one for the team and drink more beer to lower my cholesterol. Oh well. Guess I gotta stick with exercising and eating healthy and that boring stuff instead. Actually, I enjoy exercising, and eating healthy. It's not boring at all...

I normally only have a few beers a week as well. I'm young, but high cholesterol runs in my family when we hit 40, maybe I should have a beer a day along with my apple. Maybe take it to work and have it with my lunch. "No boss, this is just a health supplement for my heart, it will help me stay...

Sounds good, If I get an infection you guys owe me a beer. :) cheers!

I know it's the same yeast, but they are different strains and all have different levels of attenuation. I don't want to kick off a secondary fermentation in the beer, although now that I'm talking this through, if I do the beer first, it can't get infected with the wine yeast, and the wine...

I have wine and beer sitting right beside each other, and I have to transfer both today. As well, my wife is making bread today, and you can smell the yeast everywhere. Do I need to be worried about cross contamination of yeasts?