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Meads often take a year or more. How long was it in the Primary? Those plastic water bottles (blue ones like ozarka etc) have too high of an oxygen permeability for long term storage. Hopefully it was in a glass (or other non o2 permiable media) for the bulk of the aging? Also did they...

I'll have to dig through my fridge. I think I've got 5 of the 6 pack left. If that is the case I can give it to you on the 11th if you want to meet up somewhere. I'm partial to gingerman myself ;)

I have some of their Christmas Ale. I think it's in close relation to Yak Vomit.

Independence makes a few good beers. :) I got introduced to them at a beer festival we had over the last summer. I've never done any beer tours in austin. If I was going to visit anything in the vicinity it would be Shiner. They're about 2 hours south/east.

Greatest pub in Austin: Gingerman on 4th and Guadalupe down town. check out http://gingermanpub.com/austin/draught.html for their beer list. I think it's slightly dated, but they have about 90 things on tap.

This is *PERHAPS* relevent UP TO the hot break. For what it's worth the substances are 'careening' around because of the excited state of electrons when hot. 212*F is 212*F regardless of the agitation being applied by fire or stirring. All that the bubbles in a boil are is water vapors or...

A boil is a boil dude, it's just a matter of evaporation rate at that point. Once my wort gets a bubblin I turn my burner down until it's just sort of 'rolling' the surface of the beer around.

During the boil you are going to want to keep the lid OFF of your brew pot. You'll introduce DMS back into your beer, since it cant evaporate off. Howtobrew on DMS: Dimethyl Sulfides (DMS)/ Cooked Vegetable Flavors Like diacetyl in ales, DMS is common in many light lagers and is...

From Howtobrew.com If the water smells bad, many odors (including chlorine) can be removed by boiling. Some city water supplies use a chemical called chloramine instead of chlorine to kill bacteria. Chloramine cannot be removed by boiling and will give a medicinal taste to beer. Chloramine...

Campden tablets (used for wine) neutralize chloromines. You have to be careful to not use too much, it's Potassium Metabisulfate if I remember right and your yeast wont do jack-diddly if you go overboard with it...

Charlie P. (TCJOHB) has a few recipes where he actually brings the steeped grains TO a boil.. shrug

There's a great howto on the green board for converting your keg. As far as spigot and weldless fittings. Get a zymico weld-b-gone ... and a half inch stainless ball valve and a barbed nipple size of your choice (in stainless). As far as what you do inside the keg. I did a zymico...

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Well PBW is Caustic..backflushing hot PBW through the Shirron (or Therminator) should be adequate. :) There are a few folks that have jammed theirs up when their screens fell off their spigot or whatever.. they simply backflushed them into working condition again :)

Chill haze is caused by protiens that are in suspension .. other then that I can't help. It *SHOULD* settle out with time anyway... and fwiw, clear beer (by most peoples opinions) is overrated. I had a badly hazed holiday ale thanks to the cinnamon powder, I used gelatin to clear it in bulk..

I've still got an IC. Just so you know, Jim offers a 10 dollar discount from his ebay store to brewboard/northern brewer members. So you can get it for 75+ shipping any other time.. this is a holiday deal through the 31st. :)

http://www.free90free.com/peshchat/viewtopic.php?t=18 Talk to Jim_R on the green board, free90free or northern brewer. He's got an eBay store.. and is an all around good guy!

Alright, Vicki from Organic Vanilla (ebay store) said she'd have larger quantity Grade "A" Bourbon beans in next week. So we wont be limited to 1/4oz if more people decide to join up.

Well now that I look at it, it seems that his biggest batch of bourbon beans is 1/4 lb. The bigger quantities are Tahitian beans...

Yeah I figure lets give it through the end of the week. I'll order monday that way they wont sit anywhere waiting to get delivered to me. Then I'll divy it up, wrap them in cling wrap, ziploc them and get them in some bubble packages for shipping. It shouldn't take but a day or two to get...