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Does anyone know what kind of false bottom Lonnie Mac uses in his Brutus 10 build?

It would be tough, but the right combination of beer and friends could do some minor damage to your hoses in a drunken game of darts...

What do you call a guy with no arms or legs at the front door? Matt

ikonis, first of all, NICE SETUP! additionally, can we get some more pics of that beast? And, how many plates are people generally using in their flat plate exchangers? (sorry for any derailing, but it seems on topic) :mug:

Yeah, I guess on second thought it's not as brilliant as I had hoped, oh well. I wrote that after drinking like, lots of really thick indistinguishable-from-tar coffee this morning. On a bright note, I was perusing CL today for two things only, a keg (for a keggle) and waste veggie oil for my...

I'm sure there are a million and a half threads on this, and I've read some of them, but we all like to talk here, so... -In researching all kinds of options I just thought of a potentially easy system with which to boil/lauter/sparge in. One pot. Poke holes in it please, I will appreciate...

that's an interesting approach, I'll try that nest time...

Alright, I cold-pressed the magic beans and then boiled it down as was suggested. I didn't get to steep it as long as I would have liked to, and thus was my inspiration to boil it down a little. Now, it's been 7 days in the primary, and 4 in the secondary (with the coffee). My (it's) gravity...

Sweet, I think I'll do a cold-press as suggested. Perfect that I just got myself a nice big 12 cup french press! Aaaaand 5 lbs. of my favorite coffee! The boiling down method is interesting indeed, do you think it could potentially add bitterness though? Or would that not be an issue since...

I just got a PM porter in the primary last night, and though I wish I could give the recipe here, the guy who wrote it has some pretty serious cursive. Not sure it would matter for my question though: I want to make this a coffee porter, and am wondering about the best way to add coffee, and...

"The Ho-Ho-Hose Christmas Special"

thank you both, I had plenty. there is sadly about a third of the keg left, people did not do their jobs well enough! poor wounded soldier...

Hey all, I'm about to use my 5# CO2 bottle to dispense a half-barrel (15.5 g's) at my friends' wedding tomorrow, and I'm wondering if my bottle will do the trick. It's been through about 3 pony kegs, and has ~700 PSI left, I think full it was maybe 800??? It's 200 PSI before the ORDER GAS...

Another way, evaporative cooling: When water evaporates it carries with it, heat. If you wrap a wet towel around a keg (or anything, think being in wet swimming trunks and having the wind blow across you, brrr!) and keep it more or less in the shade, the wind movement across the towel will...

thanks e'rybody! :mug:

so I mashed with too much water, and sparged with too little?

Ok, sorry for the lack of info here. My recipe called for the grains pre-specified to be soaked at 155 for 45 mins, which I did in 5 gallons of water. What the recipe called to do however, was to soak the grains in 3 gallons of wa-wa (at 155) and then sparge with ~2 gallons to make the 5...

One thing for clarification, and keep in mind I haven't too much experience here, I thought DME = dry malt extract? like for bottling. anyways, 3.5 lbs. of grain were used, and I can't read the names off half of them: 2# Maris otter, and 1.5#'s of specialty grains I can't read. But...

Not worried, but curious. just carboy'd a batch of euro style dark porter (partial mash) that was supposed to have an OG of 1.064, and I ended up with 1.050 (taken at 75 deg.). I can't remember the calculation for temperature error with a hydrometer, but I know it's not enough in this case to...