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#1 I shoot for 180F for the sparge water. #2 Sure, I squeeze the crap out of my bag. I put it in my stock basket then I put a bucket on top of the grain bag nearly full of water, then I press down on it hard, squeezes a LOT of water out of the grain. I had to improvise this weekend...

The wife forgot to get the onion and mushrooms (it was a hectic day) so I just poured the orange mix over and into the duck then spread some of the pepper jelly we had in the fridge on top so it'd melt down into the duck, my temps were a little lower and slower than I wanted, I set it around 1am...

This is what I did with the monstrous 16.5% abv batch I made. Sweetened it with about 3 pounds of sugar then kegged it, and the old lady was wondering why she kept falling asleep in front of the tv after only 2 wine glasses full in an evening.

Smoking a whole duck this weekend, gonna start it tonight and do it low and slow over plum wood for about 15 hours, gonna shove an onion inside the duck so it'll render out with the duck fat giving me a base for some gravy that should rock the house, might throw some sliced mushrooms in there...

This sounds like something I'm gonna have to try. I have an unhealthy obsession with making things as powerful as possible. Hmm a 20+% abv apfelwein carbed up like champagne and sweetened before kegging sounds like a good sneak up on you and kick you square in the ass kinda drink.

When she tastes it she's gonna ask when are you making more. My old lady loves the stuff.

Sweetening it a bit before carbonating it really brings out the apple, it's almost like fizzy apple juice after that. And it drinks down like a fizzy cold drink, way too fast and before you know it you're drunk.

Getting to be almost every week. People just suck this stuff down so fast.

My old lady loves this stuff when it's kegged, carbed, and sweetened. So I make my secret panty dropper. 8 pounds of sugar to a 5 gallon batch. Ends up around 16% (using Lavlin 1118) and thanks to the sweetening the old lady gets a glass from the keezer and drinks it down and before you know...

It's what everyone around here bugs me for the most, more of that "apple champagne" sweeten it, keg it, and I'm lucky if it even carbonates completely before it's gone.

I've always used Lavlin EC-1118 with no major smells either.

Bottle it up, sit it in a closet and forget about it for a while, who knows how it'll be in 4 or 5 months. Or find someone who likes their beer a little sweet and make a gift out of it. Or cook with it, an overly sweet brew would probably make some killer pulled pork or bbq ribs.

I recently decided to switch to BIAB and go all grain, I bought this stock pot in preparation. When I'm done mashing I invert the lid over a 5 gallon bucket, put the basket on there, and then put my 5 gallon bucket with about 3 gallons of sanitizer in it on top of the grain bag, it fits...

I got tired of the constant temperature battle several years ago and bought one of those digital controlled electric smokers from Lowes (about $300) and the quality of what I was able to smoke went up exponentially. It felt like cheating.

Meth, sure, but distilling in the garage? Why would you care if someone makes a gallon or two of shine (more than that wouldn't really fit in a garage)?

Well, they probably do but around here it'd only be found in $9.99 22oz bombers. Which is why most of the beers I make tend to be the big beers you typically find in single bombers and not 12 packs. My wife had a good one last week, I made a fresh juiced peach/apple wine and I filled the...

It was drinkable, that's about the only word I'd describe it as, drinkable.

Scored a box of peaches for $5 this week, all of them were bruised and/or overripe or just ugly, but I got nearly 2 gallons of juice out of them. Added 3 gallons of apple juice, and sugar to reach 1.090 and it's now fermenting like crazy with EC1118. Can't wait to sweeten and keg it, I expect...

I hate when people (apparently) are incapable of truly giving feedback on my beers. Black IPA I let languish in primary (yep primary) for 14 months (long story short: I was waiting on Alabama to legalize homebrewing before I build a keezer and I wasn't bottling another ****ing brew, so it...

True, but sometimes a quick convo when nothing you're doing is illegal can forestall other crap. Had he simply sat there mute the cop would have been left to draw his own conclusions and that can be bad. Instead he turned it into a chance to make some drinking buddies out of some cops, and...