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Life circumstances created a brewing pause, and a shortage in my lineup. The wife decided to do Mexican for supper, so I offered to supplement our thin supply by picking up some Corona. It’s not my favorite, but available at the little beer store down the road. I have not bought beer in a while...

I have bought kegs (and a lot more) from these guys. Kegconnection

Not surprised at the darkened color. I recently read that the longer LME stays in the can, the darker it gets. I recently bought a Kölsch kit that was approaching its expiration date of one year after assembly and brewed it up. I will do a kit or two in the winter since I can work inside the...

Why do they call it “bacon soda”? I stirred up a spoonful in some water and it tasted nothing like bacon! 😡

Almost as curious as the origin of corn flakes. Corn Flakes

If I have any coffee left by the time I cook breakfast (we eat breakfast at noon), it is used to make red-eye gravy for my grits! 😋

Yes! This is what I do now unless I am running short and want to have it available sooner.

Are you planning on painting the interior side as well, or just the top edge where the seal contacts? For that matter, are any of you doing anything to seal the interior side of the collar. I am planning on a simple build where appearance is not particularly an issue (utility room) and was...

The wife made pretzels today to go along with my freshly tapped Kölsch. This was 100% hand ground hard red wheat, made with bread yeast, and a little sourdough discard 😋

Used to be a strain for me, (5’9”) to get kegs just into the unmodified chest freezer. Lifting wasn’t near the strain as leaning over and lowering them. I solved this with an eye hook into the ceiling joist, and a $15 Harbor Freight deer hoist. I can now easily raise a 10 gallon keg up and...

Ditto. Compared to sitting beside a hot pressure canner in July for half an hour, the 10 second seal is no problem for me. In fact it’s a pleasure by comparison. But I guess everything is relative to what you are used to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Looks interesting. If I didn’t already have a relatively new sealer I’d be tempted to consider it. I didn’t even know these things existed. 😞

Absolutely correct. Since I know that we are humid here, I am positive that I would have secured the lid tightly to exclude additional moisture and turn it into a brick. It didn’t occur to me that I was just sealing in enough of the ambient humidity to create an issue. Man! Has brewing gotten...

It’s quite possible that it was humid; I am in the South. I am sure that I made sure that the jar was dry before filling. I was wondering if something like this had happened, but had no clue as to what, or by what process. This makes sense. Afterwards, I brought the jar inside, placed it with...

I really don’t know what happened here, but maybe one of you can enlighten me. Awhile back, I bought a “refill” package of PBW. It’s just a bag that the LHBS repackaged into larger quantity bags to refill the smaller containers with all the instructions. It was convenient due to better pricing...

Thank you for this! This is the answer to a question that I have wondered about for some time. Even last night, I was skimming through a homebrewing beginner’s guide that I am intending to pass along, and I read that: “Malt and hops are not merely combined in hot water to form wort, they are...

I have this one too. I use it with garden vegetables, meats, and for breaking down larger bags of hops into smaller sizes. I use the jar sealer with it a LOT! I store my specialty grains vacuum sealed in half-gallon jars, and also dried beans, loose tea, oatmeal, cornmeal, grits, wheat, etc...

I don’t know if this will be any help, but I have a bottle of Hires extract and it calls for 3-⅓ cups/ gal. with dry ice being used to carbonate. I followed the recipe last time and force carbed it. I found it to be a little on the sweet side, but I don’t drink sodas. Others thought it was...

I’m not the best person to judge. I evidently don’t have a refined palate. I buy and roast coffee that says has “notes of chocolate, blackberry, …” and all I taste is coffee. All I can say is that we like it here at the house. I shared a keg at a BBQ last summer and folks enjoyed it, or where at...

I actually can adjust my thermowell to extend all the way to the bottom of my fermenter. When I installed it, I left the excess sticking out the top rather than trimming it, just in case I decided to move it to a larger vessel later. At a minimum, I can go beyond the lowest coil on the chiller.