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I'm going to guess that your drain was probably pretty close to clogged already and that trub just pushed it over the edge. The bad news is that its probably mostly hair and soap scum, and that stuff is tough. Draino sometimes will do the job if given enough time, but the suggestion to snake...

Actually the 2a is $20 more and the 2d is $40 more. They are all adjustable, Its just the work involved in adjusting that changes(although I am not personally familiar with the 2a). I bought the 2d and love it, but once I dialed it in, I don't really do very much adjusting. In fact with all...

It sounds like my mill is in a bit better shape than yours, but it too has been retired in favour of a new crankandstein. In the end, the only real problem I had with the pasta mill was keeping the rollers rough enough to feed at a reasonable rate, and running 1/2 per minute or less was...

I wouldn't mess with it. Post boil wort always tastes way more bitter than it will taste post fermentation. Something magical happens during the ferment to that bitterness, although I don't personally know what. It is fun tasting the wort, but tweaking at this point is a bad idea IMHO.

You have to let it condtion in the keg at serving temps for two or three weeks to allow the chill haze to drop out. The same goes for bottles. Personally I don't mind the haze. Of course I still bottle and letting a bunch of bottles sit in the fridge for weeks isn't really an option for me...

You don't need to get cute with heating the propane bottle, just throw it into a container with standing water. As long as the water is liquid, it will donate enough energy to keep vapourizing enough propane to keep the burner at full bore. My brew day before last was approaching -30, and some...

Aw man, I wanted to see an infection, I find them fascinating... The bad news is your beer looks completely normal, and boring. edited to add...the more I think about it, I'm going to have to make a sour just to watch the pelicle rather than wait for other people's accidents.

That sounds like a really fun contest, plus it sounds a lot easier to judge as its easier to taste what's different between two samples rather than judging something on its own merits. It would be even neater if the judges didn't know which was the commercial and which was the homebrewed...

That is a fantastically good idea I think. My goal in homebrewing is to derive as much enjoyment from brewing and drinking beer as I can. This means that I don't want to have to quit drinking entirely at age 50 because I've wrecked my liver, and have to take up knitting. The extension of...

It is important to develop skills 'You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.' Anyone name the movie?:fro: Sorry I know thats a little :off:

:cross: so I try to be a smart alec once and get called on it :D I don't know how "but want to know if you can formulate a recipe that pushes the limits of a style in a way that impresses judges, why brew a clone" got turned into making a small tweak to someone else's recipe and calling it...

Its going to be -24 tomorrow night. I hate you :p

Considering there are generally only four ingredients, a single change impacts 25% of those ingredients, no? What do you think the threshold should be, 50%?

So about 4 months in (two months into bottle conditioning) I thought I'd post a quick update. I undershot my mash temps a little initially, and I don't know if my lack of a mash out caused this, but this beer dropped from 1.095 to 1.010 on me. I know its only been in bottles for a couple of...

Personally I think that it would all come down to what exactly you need to get out of the competition. You have to ask the age old question that can be so hard to answer 'what do you want?'. If you want to know if your process can produce a beer that those with somewhat refined palates deem...

There are numerous theories on what actually causes hangovers, here is a website that disusses a bunch of them: http://hamsnetwork.org/hangover/ The one that I kind of subscribe to is the following

I think you missed the reference (Stripes - 1981) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psycho: The name's Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you. Leon: Ooooooh. Psycho: You just made...

Sorry, no sale. A Fusel would be a significantly larger molecule than the lowly H20. I hate to rip off wikipedia as they can be a little dubious on their facts, but On top of all of this here is a link to an animal study which seems to indicate that the presence of fusel oils actually...

I selected other. Usually I get my water from an artesian well in a ditch about 50 miles south of town. That stuff is crystal clear, cold and tastes awesome, but is pretty light on the minerals. I've started adding a bit of calcium to try to keep the haze down, but that is subject to some...

That sounds just heavenly...wait there's no puking smilie?