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glad at least *someone* knows some basic chemistry sorry folks, you boil your beer and you'll boil the alcohol off long before the water, thereby making it much *weaker* as far as ABV or ABW - stills collect the alcohol from *vapor* and recondense it in another container. (what do you think all...

taste ;) at least that's what i've heard - could be that baking strains have been modified (just like brewing strains have) to the point where they wouldn't make an effective brewers' yeast, but the bigger concern (IMHO) would be taste as the yeast contribute more to the taste than most folks...

are you talking about a mash tun?

if you've got the room I'd do it with the chest freezer & a new thermostat, then its really just a matter of making sure you dont drill through any freon lines. the mini-fridges are cool but expensive, i built mine out of an older fridge (one with the old alum box freezer that's not seperate)...

LOL - funny you should mention it, my favorite pizza shop told me at lunch they're becoming carpet-baggers, headed down to palm springs, fl to start a new shop....damn shame for me, now i gotta hunt down the second best pizza in town.

take a gravity reading whenever you want to taste your beer - otherwise you're just wasting it ;)

well, i use c-brite, but its probably the same exact thing as diluted chlorine when it comes down to it - i just use it cause my brother seems to have an unending supply of it so its free ;) , and doesn't seem to leave any off tastes around

geeze, our sauces suck, we apparently put fruit in our beers (tho you wont see that round here) damn glad we done *something* right round here ;) oh wait, that hasn't even been acknowledged! :D

Here's the recipe for the last stout i brewed, turned out even better than i hoped: nice head, great body, smooth and just a little bitter (maybe thats the coffee) - 5 gallon recipe .333 lbs. Roasted barley .333 lbs. Black Patent .5 lbs Crystal malt 6.6 lbs. Dark LME (Cooper's) 1.5...

well - just wanted to update everyone - the stout, tho maybe a little young still, is excellent. a very smooth, creamy stout, not overly dry or sharp from the quick fermentation. the head on it is great, especially for not putting any kind of artifical head retainers in there. I'll post...

just read this; " "Keeping beer" was made to lay down in the cellar as a provision, to be drawn upon during the summer. The tradition ended when the development of refrigeration made it possible to continue brewing during the warmer months. Because hops act as a natural preservative, they...

old DME is my guess, i had a batch do that once, just poured it through a fine mesh to break it up and boiled the whole thing again once i noticed the problem....i think the DME got some moisture into the bags before brew day and clumped on its own, and those clumps seemed to want to stay...

<HIJACK> I thought that's why an IPA is typically stronger (ABV) than, say, an EPA, and the extra hops were a matter of trying to balance the taste? then again, i don't know either, which is why i'm posing the question ;) <HIJACK - sorry>

i've used mine for over a year now, i just make sure i send sanitizer through the whole setup everytime i clean em...haven't noticed any problems yet. i think the big thing is just making sure you clean/sanitize em before anything has time to set up shop in there....weeks on end without...

ok, so maybe i'm just cheap ;) lol i ripped apart an old fridge that was being thrown out here in albany and kept everything together, ie. didn't disconnect *any* lines except the power. so i ended up with the compressor, radiator thinger from the back and the cooling unit which was an...

alright! questions i can actually answer! :D All Grain refers to a brewing process where you aren't using *any* extracts, such as the canned (Liquid, or 'LME') or bagged (Dry, hence 'DME') malts and instead 'mashing' the grain(s) to extract the fermentables in the brew-kitchen a...

did you boil it all as one batch? the only thing i could think of was if you used the same recipe, but did seperate boils maybe you had a little change in the one batch? so that maybe you ended up with different protein levels or something? beyond that - you got me! :confused...

Na, i'm in there almost every night, i give Bill (quoted as a beer nazi in that review) a hard time almost every night ;)

Excellent info! thanks