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Thanks skunker & nmfree. I found it in the electrical department at HD, just where you said it would be. Thanks!

Where is everyone buying the strut? None of my local home improvement stores (HD, Lowes, Sutherlands) seem to carry it. I found some online, but it is a lot higher than what gifty74 quoted in post #6.

I brewed a New Belgium 1554 clone. It tasted great at the first racking but odd at the second. Tonight, my first glass (and second, and third) out of the keg had a mild vinegar smell and taste. It's definitely not something I want to drink. But can I cook with it? Like it's a dark...

Nice! I'm going to head to Lowes/HD and see about something like this for myself.

I noticed that my last two batches (a kolsch and a bock) were both very sweet. They were good, just really sweet. I brewed another batch this past weekend and for the first time I measured the temperature of the mash. It was running about 10 deg F too high. Thanks for the posts about the...

My LHBS keeps theirs on the shelf. I asked about it one time and the guy said it sold fast enough that he didn't worry about the shelf life. I bought a 25 pack of Lalvin wine yeast and I decided to keep those in the refrigerator since I will run through them slowly.

Cool. Thanks!

Thanks Reno! So, is the initial olive green color anything to be concerned about? All my past ciders (a dozen or so) have always been a gold-ish color. This was the first batch with this particular variety of juice, though. All the others have been grocery store brands.

I made a gallon of hard cider from unpasteurized juice from a local orchard. I managed for forget about it for a month or so and then noticed that the airlock had run dry when I checked it. I refilled the airlock after another month the cider had changed colors to an odd olive greenish color...

Cider changed color during carbonation

That's really nice looking!

Cool. Thanks for sharing. That's much better than putting the carboy up to a jet washer (or whatever it's called) or doing what I do ... picking the carboy up and shaking like crazy.

Very nice! I've been looking for something "different" to make my portable kegerator out of. A whiskey barrel might be a little large, but seeing something cool like this does light a fire under me to keep looking for something different. Thanks for posting it!

Interesting idea. I like it! My keg is 8" so 12" pipe would allow for plenty of ice room. Wheels and a handle, it would be about like a wheeled golf bag. I like your idea of tap on the side instead of a tower.

BTW, lots of recipes here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f81/ Probably stuff that's tried and true versus my "I think I'll try this today" experiments. :) But, I've found "I think I'll try this today" to be a lot of fun.

I used to make a lot of ciders with raspberries in them. Maybe a 1/2 pound of frozen raspberries per gallon of apple juice. That stuff was awesome. Since then I've gotten a little lazy. I just put juice (R. W. Knudsen from the grocery store) into the primary with the apple juice. I've...

I made a batch of Skeeter Pee that I thought was OK. Not great (maybe I had let my anticipation get the best of me), but OK. That was until SWMBO suggested sangria. In the first batch we added 1 cup of raspberries and 1 cup of blackberries to a half gallon of Skeeter Pee. It was great, but...

Lemonberry Sangria using 1/2 a gallon of skeeter pee, 1 cup raspberries, 1 cup blackberries, and 2 small sliced lemons.

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Wow! Very nice!