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Brew next Monday when it goes above freezing again... should brew Wednesday but fighting a bad head cold...

OUCH! I fried my arm hair lighting the pellet stove yesterday. Furnace broke, had to order parts and glad I have backup heat! Only 30 degrees in MN the last few days!

Cleaned 2 kegs and filled them with 11 gallons of my house ale. Then drank some of it flat... and warm... waited to long to fill kegs OOPS

They make quick connect adapters that WILL fit that thread of the aerator. Used mainly for portable dishwashers. See those flats on the end? Stick a wrench on them and unscrew the aerator then take it with and find a matching adapter at Home Depot, Menards etc...

I keep between 100 and 200 pounds on hand. 5 gallon food grade buckets and gamma seal lids! Doesn't take much to go over 100 pounds, 2 bulk sacks and some smaller bags of specialty grains...

I have ~20 gamma seal lids that have been in use for10+ years and have never broke a single one... What failed on it???

Pound of Perle and a pound of Hallertau, my most used hops.

Patron Saints of Beer http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/patron_saints.shtml

Black vinyl... hot sunny day... bare body parts... PASS! Bad enough when I mow with shorts on and fry the backs of my legs on the seat!

Titanium is conductive, not as good as copper but the difference is not that great! It is about the same as steel and I am not hanging onto a hunk of steel and sticking it in a wall socket!

Food coloring... or green skittle beer...

Brewed 11 gallons of my "house ale" and froze my butt off. 30 degrees and 75% humidity is miserable!

MPLS will have a LOT of celebrations, Saint Cloud? Not many Irish there I know of...

I use a LOT of golden promise and shipping is a killer. The guys in Marshall can't order it so I am stuck with NB prices... So does anyone want to go in and buy enough malt to make a trip up and back with my pickup pay? I would be getting 3-4 sacks of GP myself(enough for 3-5 months of brewing...)

2 row, Golden Promise, Victory, and Belgian Pilsner in bulk in 5 gallons buckets, that takes 8 buckets. Then 2 buckets of crystal and misc malts in 5-10 pound increments. I need to find someone local to split a pallet of GP with. I use a sack a month on average!

Ritebrew Golden Promise I got last time was full of trash. I should have asked for a refund but I have a corn cleaner for my pellet/corn stove so I vacuumed it out then ran the malt thru with a finer top screen to get rid of the trash. NB uses Simpson GP and I have yet to get a bad bag and I use...

Ordered 2 pounds of hops, pound each of Perle and Hallertau

Hope to brew tomorrow weather permitting... plan was today but freezing drizzle is not my idea of fun to work in.

Thanks! I will have height issues moving into my brew shed(top of HLT is at 6'10, ceiling is 7'10") so a duct pulling from the wall would really be best. Gives me ideas to do a horizontal intake at the top edge of the wall and mount the blower outside in a weatherproof housing. Since the inside...

It took me 7 batches to dial in my boil off and kettle loss rates, now I consistently ht 84% efficiency...