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I couldn't let the hugh reference go without finishing it off... Some friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise the funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, the rival florist across town thought the competition...

Here's another one. Once upon a time (I know they all start like this)...There was a scientist who decided to clone himself. The unfortunate byproduct of the cloning process left a man who swore constantly, and was impossible to deal with. Eventually the scientist invited his clone up to a...

I have spent the last 6 months trying to remember that punch line. My membership in this website would be worth it for that one post alone.

Once upon a time there were two kingdoms, one of them rich, and one of them poor. Those who lived in the poor kingdom loved their king, but lacking the ability to obtain wealth, built everything from straw. The houses were straw, the castle was straw, even the throne was straw. One day, the...

Every red blooded Canadian seems to love the Tragically Hip. It seems like for the last part of the nineties and early part of the new millenium, they couldn't play a single 'Hip' song without some silly inebriate seeking me out just to let me know that 'Dude, I love that song!' And I would...

Wow, thanks for this thread. I had similar problems to this and kind of figured that it was just a design flaw and I would have to live with it until I could afford a better burner. There was huge amounts of orange in the flame, and lots of soot on my brew kettle, which seemed wrong but i just...

Okay I definitely will, thanks for your advice.I have never had a barley wine so I am trying to keep this as close to what the author intended as possible.

I am going to drag this thread up from the dead to ask a question. I am looking to brew the fireside barley wine devised by KingBrianI, and they call for the addition of 2 oz of newport hops at 60 mins, and it list the hops at 9.3% The online store that I get my hops from lists the Alpha...

Coopers Lager (not really a lager as has been mentioned) was was my 'gateway' homebrew. Even though I am all grain now, I have likely not made my last coopers. As people have mentioned, use dme instead of sugar for the fermentables (sugar for priming is groovy in my books). If at all possible...

I don't think that we batch spargers really need to worry very much about stuck sparges. I mean worst case scenario, the valve gets shut off, you stir and vorlaugh, and do it again just a little slower. It might add 2 minutes to your day but is hardly a disaster. Thats one of the benefits we...

Oh son of a gun, I just got caught necroposting... I guess God has to kill another kitten. Man I have to watch the dates on this stuff....

Or the 'hoff' effect, although at least not all the cheesburger makes it to the gut :)

Just a thought, but is it possible that the combination of a very cold serving temperature and being used to fairly highly carbonated beers that are common in the domestic market have changed your expectations of what fully carbed is? I remember thinking that imported beers from europe and the...

Wow thanks for the heads up, I definitely wouldn't have noticed a difference using steeping grains, but I would have been left scratching my head on my next all grain batch. You are definitely right about the husks seeming to remain very intact, I think perhaps I ought to use a finer crush if I...

I'm going to drag this one to the top one more time. I just did another batch, and came out at exactly 70 percent again(not 69 and not 71...weird). Anyway this one included crystal malt, and i noticed that the mill was having a little difficulty with it. As well I noticed that grain was not...

Unfortunately thats not really how it works. When you heat up a solution of ethanol and water, the common assumption is that the mixture will heat to 78 degrees, the ethanol will depart, the water will stay, and you will be left with water. In reality the boiling point of the mixture will vary...

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I noticed that it looked like there was a straight shot from the front at the bottom to the back of the fridge and room on top as well. If that is the case you could work with the natural convection that will inevitably try to draw some air up and out, by using a fan to either push cool air in...

I would like to second Hang Gliders comment. I just cooled 5.5 gallons in my fermenter (an old chest freezer) from 85 to 60, and the heat on the compressor was bad enough that that it stopped working for a while (and was making some unpleasant noises). I can't imagine that this is good from a...

well, all i had to mill was 6 lbs of 2 row. I would say that I spent about five minutes at it, although there was a little fiddling and whatnot because this was my first time ever using grain. The hopper that I built holds almost 2 pounds, which makes it a little top heavy, I might make a new...