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Now I don't feel so bad about my $6.25 mistake on Friday... took a gravity reading on the wort... holding the hydrometer tube in the left hand, grab the hydrometer with my right that has a glass in it, then pour the sample in the glass... drop the hydrometer back into the tube... as it knocks...

Really? I have never, ever made a purchase with a debit card. There are these similar things called "credit cards" that have more protections for their users. And when your bank account gets cleared out are out that money for a week or more... merchants where your checks bounce charge...

The free alternative is get a no annual fee credit card, use it and pay it off every month.

Add me to the AHS purchasers that have had fraudulent charges. It is a card that I use all the time and I had probably 25 transactions on it this month, so obviously I can't be certain, but it is a data point. I bought from AHS on 1/22... fraud occurred 2/8... not a huge effect on me since...

Well... I just had my biggest blowoff beer ever... and it was with S-04... Pitched 5:30 last night, it was a little warm still ~78ish, house is at 65, figured it would be fine and would cool down quickly enough... went to a superbowl party... got home... 1030 ish and an inch and a half of...

It isn't that easy. If you can actually breed a hop plant that is resistant to some disease, you change other characteristics of the plant and the flavor of the hop. That is IF you can get there with selective breeding. There are food quarantines in California... fruit flies... a minor pest...

Unless of course, as I said earlier... I didn't have as much boil off as I expected and I ended up with 5.5 gallons in my 6 gallon carboy... :o In that case, it doesn't suck as much...

How are you calculating efficiency of 66% when you don't know what the volume of the wort was? In my case, the efficiency did stink... but 90 min single infusion mash at 148 for 90 min and a single batch sparge... so I could have done a second batch sparge and gotten higher efficiency, but...

Understood... if you haven't had a beer go this low, it would be surprising. Especially if your normal brews have a lot more specialty malts involved... If I had to guess, mash in the 146-150 range?

But the BJCP standards for a Saison are 1.002-1.012... Light American Lager is .998-1.008... American Lager is 1.004-1.010... Koelsch is 1.007-1.011, but I missed the OG of 1.044-1.050 because I didn't boil off as much as I thought I would and my mash was at 148... So I didn't make a...

I went from 1.040 to 1.004 on a partial mash Koelsch with 4 pounds of pilsen LME, 3 pounds of pilsener malt and 1 pound of Vienna... that's 90% attenuation without adding any pure sugars...

1 x GW-PALE please...

Whether that is amazing or not depends entirely on the recipe. 8 lbs of 2 row and 1 pound of crystal and that's moderately remarkable. 7 lbs of 2 row, a half pound of crystal, and a pound and a half of candi sugar, and its less notable. The recipe is what matters...

It isn't almost water, it is almost the density of water... remember that the density of ethanol is about 0.79 so if it was just 6% ethanol and 94% water, the density would be 0.987. There's still another 5 or 6 grams/ml of "stuff" in there. Some dry wines, ciders and meads finish below...

Stone's been making the 3 liter bottle for at least 6 or 7 years, long before anyone thought of jamming a beer into a squirrel or marmot. Back then it was $40 for the bottle of Double Bastard and it was a reasonable conversation piece for a party. (3 liters is about 8 1/2 12oz bottles) The...

Look at the nutrition label on the apple juice... if it is 28g of sugar per 8 fl. oz, it will be right about 1.050...

Not at all crazy... I'd say about right... there are those that would say it is far too little for an IPA

I agree with the other posters... I'd move to .75 at 60 and move the other 1/4 oz of Simcoe to 20 min to get some of the piney flavor into it... It won't change the total IBU contributions all that much

As the pot gets bigger they get heavy... I use an immersion chiller and then an autosiphon. If you want to flow hot wort through a counter-flow chiller or pump it somewhere, the plastic siphon becomes less useable... I started with a 5 gallon SS pot for $45 at Target. I added a $75 36...

Another option on the pot, a little smaller, but still SS, I've got one and its pretty solid... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009JXYUA/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20