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    Fellow (future?) MI peeps

    It's been a long time since I've been on here... too long... like 2 years too long... Some fortunate and unfortunate events have led me to unfortunately place brewing on the "back-burner". I bought a house, had a beautiful kid, developed a rare tumor in Mr. Righty, lost Mr. Righty, developed...
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    I don't know if I can take it much longer...

    I haven't brewed a batch since March of this year, and it's killing me. Since I haven't brewed, I've neglected myself from going here to HBT. I'm still trying to figure out the new layout to figure out where different links are and such, but I think I'll get it. Back in March I started to go...
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    Tips on getting a good seasoned finish on a cheap cast iron skillet?

    Unfortunately, when I moved out of my parents house, I left my 3 Griswold skillets behind, and haven't had the time to retrieve them :( When I moved into this apartment, the old tenants left behind a less expensive Lodge brand skillet that was pretty much neglected. So after cleaning up all...
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    Putting Welch's grape juice on JAOM cake

    I was suggested an idea to put Welch's grape juice, basically this recipe:https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/welchs-grape-juice-wine-21093/, onto the yeast cake of my 5 gallon batch of Joe's Ancient Orange Mead. In a few days I'll be racking out of the primary (it has been sitting since...
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    Burner idea

    My dad gave me these two space heaters: They say they are adjustable from 100,000 to 200,000 BTUs. The picture shown is the burners without the "chimneys", and the "chimneys" are pictured underneath the burners. My plan is to slightly modify the base of one of the burners, so it will...
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    Learning the banjo

    I play bass in a band, and my bandmates thought it would be neat to incorporate a banjo into some songs, and lucky me, I got stuck with this task. We play just about every genre of music, trying to keep 50% originals and 50% cover songs. I've played bass for about 11 years, but have never messed...
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    Help deciphering Grandma's brandy recipe

    Basically the title explains it. My grandmother sent me this brandy recipe after she found out that I have been making my own beer and wine. I'd like to make it sometime and give some to her, but I'm not quite sure on one ingredient. Knowing her, this is a recipe from god-knows-when, most...
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    Pure Genius.

    Just happened to find watch a DVD of Queen playing live at Wembley Stadium in 1986. Pure Genius. Quote: Freddy- "You know something, there's been a lot of rumors lately about a certain band called Queen. The rumors are that uh, the rumors are that we are going to split up. (points to crowd)...
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    Sad times for a batch of JAOM

    Today I went to transfer a 1 gallon batch of JAOM from a 1 gallon spring water bottle (same as a plastic milk bottle), into a glass bottle to finally take it off the fruit and yeast. It was in the plastic bottle for about a half a year. In the process of transferring it into my 1 gallon carboy...
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    Poor man's (maybe imitation) nitro tap

    Please don't shoot this down too quickly. I have a feeling it may not work very well and have some issues, but this popped into my head today, and I'd like to know what you all think. After messing around with a broken shift selector for a vehicle I was working on at work today (one with an...
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    Hows this for a sun block?

    I'm not sure if this was posted before, and no I didn't search, and I don't care :mug: I just wanted to express my feeling of accomplishment. Paper bag sun block
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    Critters in basement

    It had come to my visual attention that I have critters in the basement of my apartment. Yes, the land-lady is taking care of the situation. So no heath worries here, only potential beer worries. I came to this realization while moving some bottled apfelwein and beer to the basement after...
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    Good wat to determine infections in harvested yeast?

    EDIT: Good way to determine infections in harvested yeast? Several weeks ago, I decided to try harvesting and washing yeast from a finished batch. I didn't prepare for it on kegging day, and had no sanitized mason jars or anything, but whatever, its US-05 yeast and I wanted to collect and wash...
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    HBT connection seems...hit or miss

    I'm I the only one that is having this problem? It seems that recently, HBT randomly looses connection... It's making me sad :(
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    SWMBO has the flicker.....

    and its pissing me off. We are at her parent's house for newyears, and watching TV. So she decides to put on some girly crap on tv ("I didn't know I was pregnant", "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", stuff like that), and I'm not too crazy about watching it, but I have the laptop with me...
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    Bah humbug...

    I just want to give a shout out to my fellow Scrooge's here. I know your out there! I'm currently wrapping presents at almost midnight, just so they can be opened later. how awesome.... and there are still more presents to buy....
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    Acetylene regulator pressure gauges

    I just obtained 3 broken acetylene regulators from work. All three have working gauges, just the regulators do not regulate, which is bad for acetylene, over 15 psi it becomes unstable, 30 psi = boom. Anywho, I've been thinking about getting gauges for future projects, and was wondering is...
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    Temp controller questions

    About a 1 1/2 years ago, my dad had bought an old foreclosed convenience store, which has several home-made refrigeration units in it. Today, I scored a Johnson temp controller (model A19ABA-40) for the low cost of free. I know these aren't the greatest controllers out there, but for free I'm...
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    Future brew letdown

    For the past month I have been planning on brewing a Dogfish Head 60 min clone, actually Yooper's clone https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/dogfish-head-60-minute-clone-ag-extract-25709/. I had DH 60 min before and really liked it, so last month I bought a bottle along with 3 other IPAs (Sierra...
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    drinking airlock vodka

    just out of curiosity, has anyone else ever tasted the vodka after it has sat in the air lock for 2+ months? or is it just me? I wanted to know if maybe the vodka had absorbed some of the fermentation tastes or if it still tasted like vodka. But, I found out that it actually tasted and had...
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