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I don't know what makes you think that. The Lagunitas people are all staying put. I don't think the price is going to change any because of this. The only thing that's changing is that people overseas are going to be able to get Lagunitas products.

It's becoming increasingly rare for municipalities to use chlorine over chloramine, since chloramine is much more stable and probably cost-effective. Campden tablets are a godsend for either.

Your next expenditure should be a temperature-controlled chest freezer to ferment in. When I first started out I brewed at a friend's house and his basement was also always nice and cool, but our beer wasn't tasting as good as other homebrews that we tried. We purchased some of those stick-on...

Make with the pics already!

I purchased cork matting material for underneath my pots and now I wish I had gone with rubber or neoprene mats. The cork gets wet and then it sticks to the undersides of my pots and then cork material gets ripped away. Invest in some rubber or neoprene mats and don't glue them to the tabletop.

Probably a lot less than that. I get Star San all over my basement when I brew, so if I used Io Star or Iodophor my basement would look horrible. Or at least my towels and clothes would.

What causes hangovers? Other than drinking booze, I mean. Anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen work best.

Star San in concentrated form costs about $1 per ounce. You can make 5 gallons of working solution with one ounce. I typically make a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff and around every 3 months or so I need to make a new batch, due to the bucket volume being rather low and there being some...

No no no. You really don't want to go royally scratching up the inside of a dip tube with a drill bit. That's just not a good idea.

First, I'd soak it in a soapy water solution for an hour and then hook it up to an air compressor. If that didn't work, then I'd use a propane torch or just a gas burner on a stove and a wire to poke the ashes out.

It was obviously designed for little girly men. Or perhaps a stein for children. Or you have really huge hands.

My money is on oxidation or carbolic acid bite.

The manual says: For grease, oils and fats - Use an electrode cleaning solution - 2 hours maximum For mineral buildup - 10% hydrochloric acid solution - 5 minutes maximum Hmm...is wort a grease/oil/fat? I'd say no. I think the problem would be mineral buildup. Beer stone kinda problem, ya...

Yeah, that's pretty weird, all righty.

No, it's not just you. The rings just love angling themselves just right so you can't close them. Maybe smaller rings would be better. Triclovers are ridiculously pricey for what you get and they are definitely more time consuming than camlocks. I'd only think about triclovers if I ever...

The arms on the camlocks don't really get hot so you'll have an easier time with camlocks then as long as you handle the camlocks by the pull rings connected to the camlocks and the tubing itself.

With a little practice you can do them one-handed. It's not that tough. But really, there's not many times when I'm brewing and I'm changing hoses around and both of my hands are not free. I just put my beer down and voila, two hands free.

IPA's are the best beer so why would anyone want to drink a lesser beer? I don't understand.

I'd hate to be his mom.