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  1. thegerm

    New Jersey North Jersey 7 Gallon Stainless Conical

    Received this as a thoughtful but impractical gift from my dad a while back. I've only used it once. I'm asking 200 for it. I can meet you to drop it off. I would prefer not to ship it.
  2. thegerm

    .5 micron carbon block filter

    I bought a counter top filter to replace my brita pitcher, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018MVZJE/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 and a .5 micron carbon block filter, to use instead of the included 5 micron filter...
  3. thegerm

    Beer places in Israel?

    My girlfriend's family is from Israel, so we're going out there for a couple of weeks in the middle of May. We'll be all over the small country to visit her family and for me we'll be seeing some sights. In the downtime I'd like to find some beer bars or brewpubs or whatever beer places might...
  4. thegerm

    Pre/Post Brita Filter Numbers?

    We buy brita filters in bulk from costco, but for water treatment I've just been using campden tablets and sometimes also diluting with walmart distilled water. I'd like to know if anybody has had side by side ward labs (or similar) tests done on their tap water before and after being...
  5. thegerm

    Immersion Chiller Leak

    So I was doing a hop bursted IPA with sorachi, simcoe and amarillo tonight. Very excited, a mix of hops I haven't tried before. I was on pace to have about 6.4 gallons at 1.070ish. That was the goal anyway. My immersion chiller leak added about 1.5 gallons of top shelf north jersey tap...
  6. thegerm

    Hops: Hot-stand/Whirlpool vs 20 minute boil

    Professional breweries cannot drop their wort from 212 to pitching temp in 15 minutes the way homebrewers can. They also need to separate solids from the hot wort. An extra 30 minutes of wort at 195 means an extra 30 minutes of alpha acid isomerization as well as resin dissolution. This is...
  7. thegerm

    Cask and Kettle Homebrew in Boonton, New Jersey

    Saturday night I went to check out this new homebrew shop in north jersey. I had been disappointed with the lack of a good shop within a half hour's drive of where I am in bergen county. This place will be my new LHBS, for sure. I got to spend some time talking to the shop owner while he...
  8. thegerm

    Conical Temperature Control?

    So... I'm 33 years old but my dad, god bless him, still loves blowing cash on me for christmas. So he just had a 7 gallon stainless conical fermenter shipped to me. Arrived today, early christmas this year I guess. I live in a 850ish square foot apartment. I really push the limits of indoor...
  9. thegerm

    Bernzomatic Kit: Does it need to be modified?

    http://www.lowes.com/pd_98894-717-2880538_0__?productId=3413596&Ntt=bernzomatic&pl=1&currentURL=%2Fpl__0__s%3FNtt%3Dbernzomatic&facetInfo=#BVRRWidgetID These cheap O2 regulators aren't available by themselves at any of the online HBSes I've seen. I've got some batches arriving today and I've...
  10. thegerm

    Does this Look Correctly Crushed?

    This is a hefeweizen recipe. 50/50 german pils and red wheat grist. That's it. I was targeting 70% efficiency, but I am getting 53%. I typically get around 80% efficiency when I lauter as slowly as I did with this mash, doing a double batch sparge. I have only been doing all grain for a...
  11. thegerm

    Home brewing topic on NPR's "On Point" on Friday

    Just saw this on facebook. NPR's On Point interview show usually has very interesting and informed guests and the host is a thoughtful interviewer. Friday (10/1) they're apparently going to do a whole hour on home brewing. I wonder who they'll interview from the home brewing community...
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