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I have never stopped working at this project - I am licensed, I got 3rd best beer in the region at the biggest state competition (commercially, not homebrew) 10 days after being licensed, I have people calling me for kegs while I'm at work, and I'll be quitting my day job this year. I owe a...

Hey all, thanks for reply. I they got my drinks for the day, my parking which was 40 bucks, apologized like mad gave me a sack of Rahr malt, and even after all that said they want to make it up to me. I kind of caused a scene, which I didn't need to do. So yeah, it wasn't like they just...

I don't even have the heart to write the whole story, but the short of it is... I had twelve entries to a competition, two hours from my home, that I dropped off to Defiant Brewing an hour and a half from my home a week earlier. Someone from the Homebrew club picked up my entries from...

Next time I brew I'll make a thread about it, I don't have exact numbers to give that would make this a more adequate discussion. I'll take pictures so we can examine it further. I'm interested too, maybe the numbers are off in my head. I'll have to treat it like a legit experiment with legit...

I thought of this too, and waited to check the reading, no dice. Thanks though -I wish that was the issue!:mug:

the numbers I used were just random numbers I chose to illustrate better what I was saying-but yeah it does make sense what you're saying about hot break. I do see floaties in the hot sample, i try to avoid them to no avail, they're pretty much homogeneously spread out throughout the boil...

Hey everyone, anyone run into this phenomena?: I'll take my refractometer reading just after creating a whirlpool and letting it settle, while the wort is hot in the boil kettle, and I'll get say, a gravity of 23. I send it through the plate chiller and the gravity is 17.5. Is this a...

Hey all-I posted this in the Beer Advocate Forum as well. If you get a chance, check out homebrewchef.com . Some great ideas/recipes. I'm doing my whole thanksgiving dinner around the recipes in BA this month, and I wanted to sort of comment/review them, I thought people here would be...

Really love what you're doing with this. Question: is there any way to get the lid to seal on it using a homemade gasket or giant o-ring of sorts? As far as a solution for cropping in the cone section, these dudes in San Diego have a nano operation that could work as a really neat blueprint...

Certainly your lbs are supposed to be ounces, I'd think. Not trying to slam ya or anything, I'm sorry. That didn't come off very friendly. Typing is not really a great way to communicate with a good deal of tone/attitude. Here goes: I think maybe you mean ounces instead of pounds? I've...

I sort of thought something like this would happen with cocoa powder. There's all that surface area, as opposed to maybe nibs or something else. Cocoa powder is a good idea though. There is a slight concern with the powder in that all of the fat content will go into the wort. In your case...

You know what? "Get a grip" aside, I should have just never posted in this thread. You, sir, are correct. Sorry hbt.com. that's not what this place is about.

Hey man, I'm not talking about stealing recipes, and I didn't imply anything was hazardous. I only implied that it was a complete cop-out. I understand that graham crackers in fact do contain artificial ingredients, however graham flour, certainly is not artificial. Even I, through all my...

I'd stay away from that, for fear of obliterating the flavors. I'm no chemist, but I think it might drive off some of the phenols. It might not be the best way to get the flavor out of the bean. Give it a shot! Let us all know! Just do it with some water and throw it in some sort of drink. I...

Remind me not to drink your stuff until after funneling vodka tonics.

Why don't you guys PM the Kai and see what he thinks about throwing food flavoring in a triple decoction Hef? Maybe the thought of doing something so "out of the box" will rock his zymurgistic world. I'm sure it'll be a huge surprise to him, because you know, it's so creative and all, to put...

Please, for the love of God, don't tell me that this is the way that you get the Cherry, Blueberry and Pecan in your beer like your signature implies. That would be a sure sign that I need to seek knowledge in a hole in the ground, rather than the proverbial alternative that it seems the...

Who here wants to see my Graham Cracker Cheesecake Recipe? All my buddies have no clue how to make a graham cracker flavored cheesecake. Here's the recipe though, keep it under wraps. I've been making cheesecakes, and carefully crafting their flavor my whole life. Ingredients: <Insert...

If you look on the shelves at the grocer, a lot of the imitation extracts have propylene glycol in them. If they weren't safe in small amounts, they wouldnt' be there, but honestly, is it that hard to take some vanilla beans and scrape them out, if you need vanilla? It's so much richer, and...

I hate to be a purist, but seriously, this Virginia Dare thing is a little lame. I respect people's tastes, but going to a website with a guy with a lab coat on the home page who probably isolated the exact compounds that created a taste/aroma and then put it into a liquid form, then throwing...