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I've got a cask beer setup using a corny keg that I naturally carbonated and an rv hand pump to mimic a beer engine. It's working pretty well so far, I just finished it last week.

@pdhirsch Basic brewing Radio just did an experiment with bread yeast and in the conversation they mentioned that bread yeast may vary a lot on the specific species of yeast so results can be inconsistent. I heard the same thing from a YouTube channel that focuses on distilling, sometimes bread...

Joke's on you, I was raised on John Denver! I could go down that rabbit hole all night long. I'm not a cop, I'm a homebrewer who occasionally and completely accidentally puts finished "beer" in my kettle and runs it through my "steam slayer". I end up with something that is almost but not...

Hang on, this is a homebrew forum, you're all good as long as you made the bourbon

Using your brakes is just turning very expensive gasoline into wasted heat. I use my brakes as little as possible because I care about the environment. I do use my turn signal, the electricity used is a byproduct of the very expensive gasoline I'm burning and I need to get every plugged nickel...

I brewed a stout on Sunday and threw my grain bag full of spent grain into a bucket with every intention of taking it my my sister in laws chickens... As you can probably guess today the smell emanating from the brewery reminded me to take them out and dump them on my compost pile.

Brewing happiness is reading 44 pages of a thread about WF lagers and getting inspired to brew my first ever Lager. It turned out great and very different from any ale I've ever brewed and it's yeast cake recieved a dopplebock that I've just taste after I left it alone for two months and it is...

Iodaphor shouldn't stain glass at all if my memory serves me. Also you have to be a little more careful because it's a no-rinse sanitizer only at a particular concentration.

Maybe we could do a brew day together. I brew damn near every week usually on the weekend and I have been wanting to hang out and brew with somebody and talk beer but my friends just aren't into beer as much as I am. To stay on topic and contribute to the thread: I love brewing because it's...

I will PM you my address so you can ship that bottle of star san to me and get yourself some Iodaphor. I love star san personally and haven't had any ill affects. It's the oxy clean that dries my skin out so I dip them in starsan to neautralize it!

I don't think this is a complete picture though because I have drank pretty hard through my 20s and I can remember every job I've ever done. My company has a fair amount of alchies and some that practice sobriety and if anything the hard drinkers are the ones that remember the most and have...

Beer is very good for my mental health at the very least. They say stress will kill you and there's nothing that calms my stress more than knowing I have a couple gallons of beer in bottles and several more in a carboy waiting to be in bottles. On the flip side I don't want to live to be a...

I think the definition of "American style" means there is no definition. American beers break the rules and push the envelope. We don't have a century old brewing tradition here because our country isn't that old and it took a while to get barley crops to take. We also killed off any chance of...

You get the peach flavor from the skin right? A peach brandy that was aged on peach skins maybe what the old man was making. As for the old man's vernacular.... People have all kinds of funny phrases that they pick up or invent.

Very nice!! I've been wanting to make a batch of wine but have only gotten as far as collecting and de-labeling bottles. Welcome to the site! I've learned a lot from the fine people here and spent many an hour laughing at the antics that occur. To answer the original question, I survive by...

I really don't think it's going to be bad. I have done some fifteen minute boils and they came out well. Was this an all-grain or extract recipe?

A dry hop won't get you actual IBUs but it can add hop flavor. This beer is already going to have more hop flavor because the boil was so short. Personally I would probably just let it ride and see what it becomes.

I can't recommend George from Barley and Hops on YouTube enough. The way he does videos makes me feel like he's a college professor for his day job and by night he explains the process of distilling for YouTube. I found him through his video on how to setup PIDs but I ended up watching most of...

I use 3 gallon glass carboys and I don't leave very much head room because I'm greedy. My recent wit beer foamed through the airlock and eventually blew it off! I sanitized a new airlock and bung and sealed it back up and the beer turned out excellent, even my wife says so.

But what happened to your girlfriend??! Did she survive? Are you married now?