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my hops did poorly this year, as did the garden, and I have no firewood and I am exhausted, nearly 10 months of 70 hour work weeks. I barely have had time to sleep. work is 80 miles away and the 10 to 12 hour work days turn into 14 to 16 hour days. I have lost 32 pounds due to the stress and...

Those are both kilned malts and should be mashed with base malt to complete the extractions of sugar. That said I am pretty sure you can get "something" from them by steeping them. Now BIAB is not to complicated and is easy to set up. If your already steeping grains then your nearly there...

Go here and download Bru-n-Water and plug your water profile and follow the instructions HBT water expert mabrungard has prepared in the sheet. https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/

Congrats ... looks like a lot of room to build a brew house in! Good Luck

I use plastic buckets and have left beers for up to 60 days without any trouble. Clean well and inspect any scratches in them I replace... they are pretty cheap 12 bucks at my LHBS includes the lid. Have not done many secondaries... only a few times for lagers

I do 2 batches of Pumpkin Ale each year, one is dark and one is pale. Yesterday I did a Smoked Pumpkin Stout and today I am doing a Smoked Pumpkin Ale (using an English are recipe). Here is how I prepare pumpkin to get the most flavor. Friday I stopped at an Amish Farm and purchased a 20lb...

+1 As far I know I was not impacted but I have cancelled my account and will not do business with them again.

I make a Nugget Pale Ale that is really great, Would not classify it as IPA as the IBU is only 52. It is a tasty brew.... a good American Pale Ale.

King Crimson .... In the Wake of Poseidon

I do this all the time... 1lb base malt and 2quarts and 2 cups of cold water. Pour crushed grain in strainer bag and then set in pot. Add water, then heat and stir until temp is 151 and then let it sit for 45 minutes to an hour. Remove strainer bag and squeeze. Then boil and cool and add to...

Last February I bottled a Black Ale, it had a noticeable off flavor. After carbonating the brew's off flavor was intense and undrinkable. Not sure how to describe the off flavor.. sort of astringent and sort of green apple but not really either. I let the beer sit in storage for several months...

Here is why: Got the bottles all washed and ready to go open the bucket and oh $h1t ... so i bottle a cherry wheat instead..

No one got injured? Right? Just a mess to clean up? things to replace? all is good! Replacing a person can't be done, and you cannot un-injure a SWMBO or a child or a friend.

No sugar? like i said in another post the night become eclectic...

Kansas... hold on...

So sweet, enjoy the time you have it passes so quickly... my youngest grand daughter is 13 now... she lived with me from age 10 to 12 and we bonded close until her mom and my wife became estranged and now I have no contact with her and I miss her so much and our summer walks in the evening and...

WOW... sweet

King Crimson? any one remember Robert Fripp?

or maybe this one as the night becomes eclectic

How about this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_37q0xjUjshttp://