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I have a kicked up version of my oatmeal chocolate stout, a very big nut brown, a basic lager, n a back sweetened spiced cider on tap for the holidays this year.

Homer can you burn charcoal in your smoker? If so lump charcoal is your friend :)

I am drooling looking at the pics. Unfortunately pork belly around me is a custom order item and more expensive than ordering insanely good bacon from a family owned place that cures and smokes it on site. I make buckboard bacon and Canadian bacon at least once during the winter. Both are easy...

If I were to try anything I would use a plastic weld kit. They make HDPE rods and PP rods. what to choose depends on the type of plastic you are welding. It may be easier to just buy a cooler.............a 10 gallon round beverage cooler at Home depot is $45

I have well water that is high in iron and manganese. We have also have an iron bacteria issue that we control by bleach bombing the well once a year. I use my well water for cleaning my brewing equipment and for mixing sanitizer. After it is treated via multiple filters and a softener to remove...

Oats will only help head retention NOT hurt it. One pointer with rolled or old fashioned oats is to do a cereal mash. Cook them as if you were going to eat them but use lots of extra water when you boil them then dump the whole slurry in the mashtun. It will really bring out the nice creamy...

Airlock activity while is a sign of active fermentation is not the ultimate indicator. Your beer is likely done fermenting. If you are not in a rush it it sit for another 10 days then bottle or keg. If in a hurry take a hydrometer reading. Wait a day or two then take another. If gravity does not...

Adventures in Homebrewing does a black Friday sale. They ship and are the kings of used kegs :) http://www.homebrewing.org/

I did one of the Mangrove Jacks kits earlier this year. I did the spiced apple kit. It was good. I did not use the sweetener after researching and finding out is aspartame. I treated it like I do fresh cider after it fermented. I added potassium metabisulfite to prevent further fermentation and...

I agree with Yooper. See if they can tighten up the crush for you next time. Or tighten it yourself if possible. :)

You will want to use some biscuit malt for the "bread" flavor. To get bananna use a heffeweizen yeast and ferment it warm to bring out the nanna esters. :ban: You will get more :ban: flavor from the yeast than using the fruit

An aquarium heater requires you submerge it in liquid.........................could work if you can put it in your fermenter :drunk: I don't recomend it................

I use an ITC-1000 temp controller. For a heat source I use a waterbed heater rolled up in the bottom of the fridge under the shelf the bucket sits on.

I ferment in and cold crash in a counter top height fridge (large mini fridge without freezer) 4.5 or so CF. The 7.9 gallon wine buckets I ferment in fit perfect with airlock on the bottom shelf with no mods other than a chunk of wood to support the bottom shelf :)

No worries. It'll taste good. I have hopped up that recipe before with excellent results :) Makes for a nice "session ipa".

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A hardcore soak in oxyclean will help get rid of some of the smell too. One scoop per gallon. Fill it with hot water and let sit for a day or two.

Most American lagers have corn and or rice as an adjunct. You may want to experiment with adding one or both. If you have room, I highly recommend getting a fridge and temp controller. Temp control makes repeating a recipe so much easier plus you can use lager strains. I used the fast...

Maredsous produces some very nice brews. I am fond of their blond, brown, and triple. You can get them here in the states but are very hard to find.

I recommend getting another keg if you have one that is rubber dipped or even better just buy a 15.5 gallon pot. The pot will have better heat transfer and be more energy efficient. Not to mention lighter.