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I'm a masochist. I did the joinery by hand with dovetail and coping saws. :D

The cardboard 12-packs I've been using to store, stack, and lug my beer around have been getting kinda soggy and ratty, and I needed an excuse to play in the garage, so I decided it was time for something a bit more substantial. I whipped this guy up in a day, out of some plain ol' select...

In a cash-strapped scheming discussion, I mentioned (jokingly!) that idea to a forensic pharmacologist friend of mine. He told me that selling something that someone could assume was a controlled substance holds the same penalty as selling the substance you're faking. I think the...

Yeah, dissolving the bottling sugar in water makes for some more peace of mind and more consistent carbonation. Do remember to boil the water first, though. It would be a real shame to go and contaminate things so late in the game.

w00t! Congratulations on your first brew day. If someone told me I'd be as thrilled as I am to watch bubbles, I would have called them crazy. Sounds like you'll have a successful beer in a few (sixish) weeks.

Hey Folks, Last weekend, I brewed up my first original recipe ever. I started small, only using 3 pounds of grain. When I did the math, it looks like I came up with about a 65% mash efficiency. I'll admit that the equipment I'm using right now isn't exactly ideal. I'm fly sparging with a...

Challenge accepted! And (too-big pic): http://www.ssrfanatic.com/forum/attachments/f5/11818d1145374841-side-pipes-ssr-pt-cruiser-004.jpg Okay, I'll quit being disruptive now. Back to the nice cars! :rockin:

Not entirely true :D

You may be a ******, but we understand. You're from Jersey. You can't help it :mug:

It's not just you. Looks like something's taken a dive over on their side. The whole moreflavor.com family of sites seems to be down.

No worries! I did exactly the same thing a couple pages back. :mug:

Helping out Chrislehr there ^^^ 15369.5 + 15 = 15384.5 Plus my five gallons of Dry Irish Stout = 15389.5

I'd definitely be doing a 3 gallon boil. My Brew pot and stove won't handle more than that. I love a nice, bitter brew, but for this one, I was gunning for something that was a bit more accessible to folks who might be new to homebrew. I'm betting that a lot of folks at the party will be...

Well, with the 2lbs Vienna and 1lb Crystal 40, I'm still looking at an OG of 1.048, and Hopville's calculator is calling for about 26 IBUs. On a wee side note: How good is Hopville's beer calculus application? I think it's totally friendly, and pretty whiz-bang, but I know enough about...

Thanks for the tip. I think I was relying too much on the crystal for sweet/maltiness. Vienna sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. If I ditched the 2-Row for 2 pounds of Vienna, and went down to a pound of Crystal, say 40L, do you think that would make for a better recipe?

Hey Folks, I've whipped up a first shot at a recipe. A friend of mine is having a graduation/birthday party in a few months, and her husband asked me to make a batch of beer for the shindig. She's a big fan of Yuengling lager, but I'm still a bit of a noob, so I'm not nearly comfortable...

I'm not seeing a quantity for the steeping grains. Care to enlighten?

Don't see why not. It should help strain *most* of the hops solids out of your wort when you're ready to transfer to your fermenter. I like that better than the nylon mesh bag I used last time, just for the fact that it looks WAY easier to clean.

QFT. Diffrent strokes, I guess. I used to say that I never met a beer I wouldn't drink, but that ODD Notion winter proved me wrong.

I recently had a lot of success using my bottling bucket and a big mesh bag as a makeshift mash and lauter tun. That was a partial mash, but the principle oughtta hold, right?