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Lost my first wedding ring within a month too; Wife wasn't pissed as we were both together cleaning up an old little ladies backyard. Actually got some lovin' because it was my idea to help the little old lady, and I felt so bad about losing our ring. She thought I was great to be willing to...

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Hey Dave - I bottle all of my brews, but made a weizenbock with a friend of mine over Christmas last year. Since he lives 3 hours away, didn't make it in time for packaging. He bottled some for himself, and then kegged the rest. Ultimately, it made it down to me (sat with the in-laws a...

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the feedback. I used Weyerman's Bohemian Pils - I'll try Castle Pils next batch and see if it makes a difference. I haven't noticed any taste issues, so I don't think there are problems with the protein precipitate>

Just finished a doppelbock today that consisted of relatively equal parts pilsner malt and dark munich malt, with some caramunich III and a little accidulated malt per AJDeLange's recommendations (exact recipe is the Jamil's doppelbock in one of the last BYO issues). My problem is that I am...

NordeastBrewer - I use the Mr. Malty site quite a bit; just went over again to make sure I didn't miss anything. The charts/subs there are for Wyeast and White Labs, but I did not find anything on dry yeasts. There's always the possibility I drank to much last night so my ability to find...

Hey All - I've been dabbling with dry yeast for ease of getting hi pitch counts without a starter. As I was researching origins of the yeasts, I came across this site listing substitutions: http://alestolagers.blogspot.com/2010/05/for-hombrewer-dry-yeast-substitution.html. Most I believe are...

My FIL, on our wedding nite as my SWMBO were leaving for our hotel room, pulls me aside to give me the following advice: "take it slow and easy" ...wait, what ?!?

I don't know the exact number, but the packages I get easily have enough to fill a 20 liter batch in 12 oz (approx 350 mil) bottles. As to the cost and ease - yes, bulk priming sugar may be cheaper, but I do feel this is much easier for my process to do the carb drops. Each brewer needs to...

I love 'em. If I'm not adding yeast for my longer lagers or spice for the holiday ales, I use them. Did my first 10 batches mixing priming sugar and siphoning to a bottling bucket. Was always worried about oxidation, and keeping the cooled priming solution sanitary. The carb drops are easy to...

I've used Wyeast Bohemian Lager for Cal Common beers with great results - you might try Saflager W34/70 - purportedly the same strain. As JFowler said, keep it cooler, and give it some time (hard to be patient, I know). Works great for me! I've got one going right now...

A wit is a good way to start, but you can use wheat like an adjunct in most beers. I use my dad's raw wheat all the time, but always do a cereal mash to make sure it converts. Wheat in western Ks is pretty high in protein, so you may have some haze in the beers. Check out Mosher's Radical...

Yeesh, wish my brother in law would make me a mill! I give him enough free beer darn it.... Where did he get the rollers?

I use the Cooper carb drops on almost all of my beers (30+ batches) and they work great -- just have to be patient and give them time just like normal bottling! If you want to play around with the amount of carbonation, you can try Munton's carb tabs - think you can use between 3-5 tabs to alter...

There are award winning recipes for extract and steeping grains. Yes, you can brew-h recipe w/o kits. Trying googling Ken Schwartz -- he has a paper that helps convert all grain recipes to extract and back. March/April 2010 Zymurgy also has an article by Denny Conn that cites the article if...

I haven't modified my cooler, so can't say what one may gain by doing so -- I to0 use a grain bag and it works great. I use 5 gallon paint strainer bags from HD, they have a little elastic in the top so it stays up there. I've also put small mesh rack in the bottom of the cooler. It keeps the...

I have the same question as keepthedrive (post #175 back in May) -- my first two batches of all grain have resulted in LOT of thick hazy crap -- what am I doing wrong? Am I not allowing the mash runnings recirculate long enough to clear (no grain chunks, but still hazy)? I can't get it to...

This folder is named all grain & partial mash brewing -- why not do a partial mash? Cut back on the grains, and use some malt extract. You can even steep the specialty grains in the sparge water and run that through the base malt. But I get better results with specialty grains in the mash. There...

Have the beer first to steel your resolve, and then a beer after to relax!

I think you're good to go Gridlocked. I'm starting my Centennials and Cascades this weekend (and probably should have started earlier). Tettnag needs a little time. I've not found my cones to smell like weeds when I break them open though. When I do, I get a great hop smell, and fingers get...