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I'm having my first one now, and I'm really conflicted. I don't taste the orange, the coriander or the rye, but I DO taste sage...strong sage. At first I thought, WHOA! This would be a great beer for Thanksgiving (since I make a sage stuffing), but now that I'm halfway down with it, I'm...

I agree with the assessment that the experience of others can be beneficial, so I have to ask (before I build my own), how are you guys cleaning the cloths after use?

Hi All- I successfully converted a an upright fridge (manual defrost, with the coils in the shelves:rockin:) to a fermentation chamber, and now that my first batch is literally "chilin", a few ideas have come to me. Does anyone see value or problems with the following? 1) Remove door...

He said he used a cooler he's had for years. As a mashtun.

I too am looking to remove the divider between fridge and freezer so I can fit my conical in a more compact unit. I googled my arse off looking for the references above, and finally hit the motherlode on Youtube- however, in each instance the poster used baking powder and alcohol to locate the...

This isn't exactly how I wanted to roll this out, but I busted my butt and got the main parts of my build site done, hoping it can help you. It, like my brewery, is a work in progress, but I'd appreciate any and all feedback! Http://Dave.juliano.home.comcast.net I'm not a computer guy, so be...

I bought a little plastic food container for my soap- I used to love using a heavy coffee cup, but I travel a lot for work and got tired of having to bag it up or replacing both it and the soap when the airlines got too rough. Not so classy but very effective!

I've been wet shaving for 18 months- at first it was an anachronistic experiment but now I could never go back to canned foam/gel and $4 replacement cartriges again!

Hi HHB- I was in a similar situation myself about 18 months ago. The difference for me is the commercially produced stands were out of my price range. I ended up building a two-tier semi-automated HERMS system. It's probably not perfect for everyone, but by building my own I was able to build...

Hi all: I've read many of the threads RE: Canning wort for starters. I like this idea a ton, but have a problem... I have these great 1L polypropylene square containers from Nalgene (lab at work ordered a ton and couldn't use them all, so I took 6 home). My eyes are bigger than my pressure...

rather than start a new post with a similar problem, I thought I'd perform a friendly hijack. I've just tasted my second attempt at cloning Stone's indominatable IPA. The first time I brewed it I ended up way high on my mash temp (~170'F). Product was actually not bad. Second time, I used my...

By this morning the fermenter was only bubbling once every minute or so, so I steeled myself and racked to secondary- you guys were right!! The funky odor was not present when I opened primary, just good ole fermentin' beer smell. I guess I was just more sensitive to it given the newness of...

Thanks for the reassurances! I'm prepping to go into secondary (6.5gal glass), and I think my imagination/paranoia is still driving though- it didn't smell like beer to me when I sniffed the airlock (was finally able to switch from blow-off to airlock this morning). I smelled sour milk...

Hi gang, I brewed an AG batch of my Stone IPA clone (slowly refining it), 5 gal. I've also started a yeast bank by culturing from a smack pack and streaking on slants. This last batch was the first time I grew up a starter from a slant; I went incrementally- 40mL to 4oz to 12oz to 500mL so as...

I love fall, especially now that we live in the desert southwest: we drop out of the triple digits and I get to golf again. So I got myself all excited with the approaching autumnal holidays and decided last weekend to brew a "fall-y" beer. It's a wheat that sits on 3lbs of cranberries, 2...

I went through this a few months ago- I had a grinder but was worried about the diameter of the wheel- would make for a choppy cut I thought. I also had a dremel, and a friend with a plasma cutter. Reading online I was scared away from the plamsa cutter because several people said that the...

Hi All, I recently racked my Northern Brewer Honey Kolsch AG kit from primary to secondary, which, per the recipe, should be lagered for several weeks (don't have the recipe in front of me). I don't have the ability to lager yet, and the airlock on the secondary has been very quiet (only ~1/4"...

Tiber, I'm sorry, I read through all 5 pages before posting and saw similar requests for help. Not sure how I hijacked this one (am I off-topic?)? Thought that discussing the water portion of a CFC would add to the already lively discussion. Further, most forums I've been on don't like...

I hope you guys will talk me off a ledge- I spent a lot of time and money fabricating a "super chiller" like that discussed here (minus the thermowell, d'oh!) because my tap temp in summer is ~90'F (Stupid Tucson!). I used 50' of 3/8" OD tubing stuffed at great personal effort into a 50' 5/8"...

I thought I was lucky when I walked by one of the labs at work and found a pile of equipment that was free to take, for in the middle of it all was a Fisher Thermix stir plate (model 120MR)! I googled the heck out of this thing; I was concerned about the name given it- THERmix lead me to think...