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Yep, Wards is less than 37 USD (Yep, I'm cheap). Oh BTW speaking of Cheap, I get all my books from Thriftbooks (used book dealer). They happen to have that book for sale ($19.95 marked down to $11.69 USD) right now, only 1 copy heh. See Here Texas Tea, your source for Cheap!

mg/l is ppm. That water is clean. You will need to add salts etc. How much did that analysis cost? When I first started brewing, I sent all my water to a lab in Texas the state uses for all its water analysis. They are good, local (I could drive to it), certified and accredited to do that...

I have tried growing hops and it's hard. I'm on the hairy edge of the growing region for hops (Gulf coast, Texas). I have mystery hops too! (B grade rhizomes unidentified as to to cultivar. 22 bucks for 20 rhizomes. I have some more identified (Cascade, Centennial etc.) Where you are located is...

Bottled 55 bottles of Amber Ale. Cleaned out SS fermentor and bottling bucket. My daughter came by with some good non screw cap bottles (Ichi Kirin) to add to my collection of SA, SN, New Belgian, and St Arnolds. She's been saving bottles for me.

Welcome the forum from a Texas member.

Bought this thing at Aldi's today. It was on sale and beer related so in the basket it went. You place the bottle or can inside the tower. Now instead of 2 things to clean (bottle and glass) I have 3 (bottle, glass + dubious usefulness beer dispenser). This really is a sickness isn't it? I'm not...

Welcome to the forum from a Texas Brewer. What kind of help are you looking for? Just ask away. I've been brewing less than 2 years , if I can't answer it (highly likely) one of these veteran brewing experts that reside here can surely help.

Arrggh, Mateys. September 19 be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Ye brewers spit on ye hands and hoist the skull and crossbones.

Welcome to the forum from a Texas brewer. It's nice to have you back to brewing again.

Yep, the cows used to get drunk on fermenting plums. Sometimes that could be a problem.

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-wild-chimpanzees-ingest-equivalent-alcoholic.html It's in our genes. Party on Dudes!

Welcome to the forum from a Texas Brewer.

pH taken at Wellhead (where I pull the brew water from) and after calcite tank. Extra calcite added.

Welcome to the forum from a Texas brewer (beer mostly). I've only brewed 2- 5 gallon batches of mead so don't listen to me about mead . There are lots of mead guys on here that can help. I'm a beekeeper, did you ever think of doing that?. Goes hand in hand with mead. Plus bees are in a failing...

Polycyclic alcohols are responsible for the Coleus effects if I remember correctly (It's been a really long time since I researched that). Never consumed Coleus but the chemistry behind it is interesting.

Ah, henbane. The infamous tropane ring (7 sided ring). Fun factoid, You know what else has a tropane ring? If you guessed cocaine you would be correct. It was traditionally used in some gruits. In Jr High some of the kids used to mix henbane in with the weak marijuana back in the day and smoke...

We didn't agree all the time but you were one of my favorite people here and contributed alot. I'm gonna miss ya. I'm trying to be a glass is half full kinda guy and come up with something positive about your leaving HBT and stopping the ethanol. All I could come up with is this weaksauce "It...

Welcome to the forum from a Texas member. I'm a beer brewer but have done 2 batches of mead, no cider yet though. There are a plethora of Cider and Mead guys at HBT so you'll fit right in.

Welcome to the forum from a Texas Brewer.

I use this for vacuum sealing mason jars. (It's a food saver lid, link goes to amazon)...