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I'm liquidating some carboys: 1 5-gallon plastic Better bottle 3 6-gallon plastic Better bottle 1 5-gallon glass carboy 1 6-gallon glass carboy Also throwing in a thief and an auto-siphon. All in great shape, just needs a little cleaning/sterilization. $60 for the lot, which is a GREAT...

I'm in the North Dallas area and I'm selling my gently-used 17 gallon fractionating column still built professionally from heavy gauge 304 food grade stainless steel. It has a 3" stainless reflux column with four 2" sights. (The column can be packed with copper dish scrubbers or mesh so you...

Attaching a photo of the included pressure lines/manifolds. One of the gauges is damaged and will need to be replaced.

Dallas (Lewisville) I'm cleaning out my garage and realized that I will probably never use my kegerator again. It has been used as a deep freeze for the last couple of years, bypassing the conversion thermostat. It's a 7 cu ft freezer conversion, will hold 3 corny kegs and CO2 (plus some other...

I just converted a fridge into a curing chamber for meat and cheese, and I used an STC-1000, which saved me about $50 off the conventional plug-and-play kegerator conversion thermostats. However, I used the direct-wire method, rather than wiring up a whole bunch of outlets, to save on cost and...

I've read all sorts of speculation on here about whether including roasted pumpkin flesh in the actual mash contributes any points to the beer. I've been brewing partial-mash pumpkin beers year-round for 4 years now, and while I am the FARTHEST THING POSSIBLE from an expert and know far less...

Holy crap, I would NEVER survive Top Chef!!! That's for REAL chefs. I'm just a guy who cooks at home.

Figured I'd answer a few questions: -Christian is NOT a ********* in real life. He's actually quite likeable. ON set, he's a typical competitive chef. Once he walks outside the studio, he becomes super friendly, laid back, hippie, chill, delightful, funny guy. Everyone liked him all the...

Hey folks! Still completely buried under the response from fans since getting eliminated. My benstarr.com inbox has over 8000 new messages in it. 8000?!? I have no idea how I'm going to EVER get through all of that. Thanks for all the support and humor you guys have given me through the run...

I hope those pancakes turned out good! Cardamom is an incredible spice with a wide variety of uses. It's good for both sweet and savory spice combinations. Sprinkle it into your coffee in the coffee maker for the most exotic, fragrant coffee you'll ever drink. Dust it on slices of orange...

Ha! Well, Jennifer is NOT a mom...she is single and looking. (Christine was the single mom.) Regarding Derrick, he has spent some time "staging" (pronounced STAH-zhing) which basically means interning for free, in both Joe's restaurants and Graham's restaurant in Chicago. Of ANY of the...

First you apply on their casting website by filling out a small questionnaire. Then they call you about a week before your local auditions to give you a VIP invitation. Then you fill out a massive 30 page application with all sorts of crazy details about yourself, including an exhaustive...

Wow, someone's got a great eye! Ha ha... In that same video, some YouTube viewer saw the dog least hanging in the background and asked me what kind of dog I had. Crazy what people notice. Yeah...nasty night for me tonight. Hopefully next week will be better!

My mom made me 5 chef hats before I left. I ran out of them pretty quickly, so I stopped wearing them, and in that very next challenge I did terrible. Ramsay said, "You're sh-t without those damn hats, put them back on." But I didn't have any new ones, and my mom was in surgery and couldn't...

Hey, friends! Thought I'd duck in for any questions that might have been posted... "How is it seeing yourself on TV?" Kooky. I guess I'm really overly dramatic in real life, but I get kinda annoyed seeing myself make all those faces. It's also surreal re-living traumatic experiences, while...

Hey folks! Sorry, I really need to duck into this thread more often, I had NO idea it was this busy! Let's see...Jen Behm. Former Miss Delaware and placed fairly high in the Miss America pageant. But she's not your typical beauty queen. She's a total tomboy, likes to be dirty, watch...

Actually, I did several interviews about brewing, and I talked about HBT and how it was critical in the learning process. (After getting started by reading John Palmer.) But...less than 1% of what gets filmed ever makes it onto the show. For each challenge, we spend about 2 hours in...

Wow, Edwort messaged me!!! I feel like you're a celebrity, I've been making your apfelwein since I started brewing, and it has made me LEGENDARY at parties. Ha ha ha... Thanks so much!!!

Thanks everyone! The cake recipe is on my website, benstarr.com Cheers! BEn

Thanks, folks! I figured this thread would have fizzled but it's still going! And so am I. With so many people in the competition, there's just not screen time for everyone. They don't want it to be "The Ben Starr Show" so you'll see me come and go here and there. I won the catfish...