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Well, after months of pondering, I finally splurged and bought the damn 10 gallon cooler. It was $110 - I could not find one in Edmonton from anywhere except parts distributors and paying to ship one here would have been even more expensive. I am excited though. I am currently using a 40qt...

24. About 2 years.

Geotechnical engineer. I work for a consulting firm.

This... is ****ing excellent! :rockin::mug::drunk:

I have done this twice now, here are my results: For each of these shown I have 2 others (ie, harvested 3 jars from each cake). I have not used any yet. I guess my question is, is a starter even required if you have this much? I was reading that yeast pitching rate calculator and it...

Weird. I have a sort of corn sweetness thing going on but it isn't by any means overwhelming and people really like it. I had excellent efficiency and ended up just below 6% abv, so I'm giving them more time in the bottle. I used 5.5lbs 2-row, 2lbs flaked corn, 1.5lbs minute rice, mashed...

Turned out pretty good. A bit too much corn-ish sweetness for me - maybe that will mellow out with aging. But I will revise it a bit when I make it again because it is otherwise excellent. Also my friend who said he doesn't drink "dark beer" when I cracked open a pale ale likes it quite a bit...

I've never really been big on national pride or any of that and I don't find the olympics to be very exciting. Some guy wins a gold medal in speed skating by a few hundredths of one second - uninteresting. Shaun white won gold - Oh, didn't see that coming, the guy has his own personal half...

Just returned from a couple weeks out of town. This thing never really formed more than about 1" of krausen but has fermented to 1.014 and tastes wonderful. I think I'll bottle it in the next couple of days.

I think that the CBC announcer would happily give the sedins a beej. God damn.

Just brewed, flawless brew day. Smells wonderful. Hit 1.050 for OG... can't wait!

Just did this for the first time with Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast. Interestingly the smack pack's manufacturing date is Jan 26 2010 - the LHBS guy was excited about how young the shipment of yeast they just got was. Anyway this thing is sitting on my counter in a 2L cola cola bottle and smells...

Where I grew up there is a lot of natural gas. Anyway there is a company in town called "Easy lay pipe handling".

About to crush the grain for this bad boy. Using wyeast 1084. Also I am substituting Cara Red for the carapils because the LHBS didn't have any carapils. A bit darker of a crystal malt but I doubt it'll make much of a difference. I am excited :)

There is a lot of info out there about moderate beer and wine consumption benefiting your health. I average between 1 and 2 a day. Except yknow sometimes when it piles up and you drink 10 or 15. I think that that is good for you once in awhile too but I'm not a doctor.

Yknow what I was just thinking about this and, although people don't live within their means and rack up too much bad debt and rely on others, it eventually comes back to bite you in the ass real hard. Credit is interesting - (if this were recent) the next time he tries to go buy a car or a...

Right I forgot about the preservative part. Also it is an excellent sanitizer and what I use for winemaking and brewing. A wonderful multifarious chemical :)

I have had this bottled for awhile at room temp. What I was doing was throwing 4 or 5 in the fridge and then drinking them that week. Recently I put about 18 in the fridge and then had to go out of town for work for a couple weeks - got back and cracked one open, the cold conditioning took the...

Wine has typically a much higher %abv than beer so after primary it is quite a bit less susceptible to infection, from what I understand - especially if the %abv is over 13.0, is what I have read. The sulfite is used to prevent oxidation - Whenever I have made wine it is after secondary at...

One day your neighbor is going to knock on your door begging for help. When lenders notice this kind of thing, they start calling in debts. A girl I knew in university had a couple maxed out credit cards and started bouncing checks - a few months later, got a phone call and subsequent letter...