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I usually force carb at room temp since the kegerator can only hold two kegs at a time. I usually use around 35 PSI or so. If you have Beersmith it can tell you the correct PSI for a particular volume at whatever temp you choose.

My dad drinks BMC (Natty Light or Busch Light usually) and he salts the stuff too.

Yes, usually around 7 1/2 gallons.

It's not too late to start getting a HBT collection going to buy me that present for this coming Xmas! :D:D:D (Think I'll stick with my Therminator)

My "brewhaus" is otherwise known as my kitchen. I take it over on brewdays.

This is how I have mine set up - the input is at the bottom and the output is at the top. There is a bleeder valve on the output to help get the air out of the pump head to start the prime. The ball valve on the output is on backwards, but it had a built-in bleeder port on its output side so I...

I love my Therminator, but I also have a pump. I used an immersion chiller for two years prior to that, and they work fine as well. The real key is simply the temp of your cooling water - if it's cold enough any of the common types will work fine.

A crappy apartment complex I used to live in (emphasis on CRAPPY) once put up notices stating "Cable bills are going down for residents!" Yeah, sounds good, but what it was was mandated basic cable with Comcast because they made some sort of deal. If you had cable, yeah it was a little...

The water around here supposedly is very similar to Munich water in mineral content, but I've never seen a report. I certainly drink enough of the stuff out of the tap, though, so it tastes fine.

Your handle is WAY too appropriate for that. One of them is named Homer.

It depends on the type of beer more than anything else as long as there's no O2 contact or infection. An imperial stout will last a lot longer than a hefe (and that stout won't even be good until long after the hefe has gone south).

I've made a mixed drink with meat before that was pretty good. It was a Bloody Mary made with spicy V8 - the key is to put some pepperoni slices on the rim of the glass like you would with orange or lemon slices. That meaty smell when you're guzzling the glass just makes it better.

Looking at the Virginia code, it looks like the tax here is $7.9515 per barrel. You read that right. It is specifically "Twenty-five and sixty-five hundredths cents per gallon per barrel". It gets even weirder: "Two and twenty-two one hundredths mills per ounce per bottle on bottles of more...

I know the feeling, I have two rabbits at home that have taken over a room and ruined the carpet in there. Wife wanted them, she always wanted rabbits. They can be a real PITA sometimes. Now says that if she knew how much trouble they would be she wouldn't have done it, the house isn't suited...

I have two Fender acoustics, one's a 12-string. I started playing in high school but I don't play much anymore. Every now and then I'll get the urge to pull one out. I've always liked playing a 12 over a regular guitar.

Inkscape is good for text effects and creating shapes. I made my logo in Inkscape, and being that it is a vector I can size it to however big or small I need it. I export it as a PNG to use in the GIMP to add to my taphandle label designs. GIMP is more for a photo-editing use and I ususally...

Does this work well with one of those adapters that just connect a faucet to a keg QD? I've never used one of those out of fear of foaming from hell so I usually use a 5 ft line with a picnic tap if it's being served outside of a kegerator.

I haven't ever learned PHP as I've had no need to (yet), but it looks incredibly simple considering I've been using Perl for a decade.

Yes, it's compounds the yeast create, and hefe yeast makes a lot of them. For more clove (phenol), ferment cooler, low end of the 60s, for more banana (an ester - isoamyl acetate), go higher near 70. In the middle you'll get some of both.

A wannabe-gangsta ******* I used to work with back when I was in high school branded a word on his arm. He meant to spell "deuce" and instead spelled it "duce". "Duce" is a kinda-valid slang term for sharing a smoke, but it's not what he meant. I think he could have improved it by putting...