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obbrews, I picked up a LARGE fairytale pumpkin and did the deed with 1/4 of it. You were completely right. It basically made pumpkin baby food. Quite a mess, but it did taste good! Not discouraged I went ahead and tried a different approach. I took a remaining 1/4 of the pumpkin and...

I'm going to do a test run on the reduction method as soon as pumpkins show up on the market and see what comes out on the other end so to speak. I do plan on roasting it before it hits the juicer.

Last year after roasting pumpkin for a batch of ale I ended up with about 2 cups of run off in the roasting pans that I decided to boil down to a reduction. The end result had a sweet caramelized pumpkin flavor to it that was very tasty. Needless to say, I just threw this into the boil...

LOL, just took a final reading while kegging. 7.0 brix, 1.010 SG. That puts OG at 1.057, which makes a lot more sense. Either way, this girl be done! Ohm and kegged ;-)

Just fished out a sample for the refractometer, 7.5 brix. With the OG, Beer Smith thinks its at 1.005 and 8.69% ABV :drunk: The low gravity isn't totally surprising with me mashing in on the low side, and 2lbs of fermentable adjuncts :rockin: I'm going to kegg it here in a few... as soon...

Here is the recipe I made if you want any additional inspiration: Opuntia de Garde * Mini mash * 0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine 0.50 lb Honey Malt 0.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) 0.50 lb White Wheat Malt * Boil * 3.15 lb Pilsner Liquid Extract (60 min) 1.00 oz Tradition (60 min) 3.15 lb...

I thought about this a bit more. Dragon fruit and prickly pear are pretty damn similar. A dead simple recipe would be: 6.60 lb Wheat Liquid Extract 1.00 oz Hallertauer (60 min) Any liquid Belgian Wit yeast; White Labs #WLP400, Wyeast Labs #3944, etc. Add a few lbs of dragon fruit puree...

That could be a very interestingly shaped tap handle...

I just taped a wheat based Biere de Guard that had 1/2gal of home squeezed prickly pear juice added to secondary. The only special prep I did to the fruit was to sanitize it at 160f for 30 min. I'm a big fan of Belgian style ales, so I would recommend a bit of wheat and a Belgian yeast the...

I managed to more or less form one this weekend, but I would call it more of a mound than cone. One thing I did do that helped a ton was to use a 5 gallon paint strainer bag to hold the hops and coriander in (wit beer). I just dump them in into the bag, then secure the bag to the brew pot...

Thats more or less what I was thinking, but I figured it would be best to ask some more seasoned brewers on the subject. Your suggestions are pretty much exactly in line with my plan of attack! I hope it turns out well, it should be quite the panty dropper. *snicker*

Heh, my beers never last 3 weeks in a keg! But back to the original question.. CAN I do it in 10?

1-2 weeks? I started a wit last last week Sunday, 4/3/11 with Wyeast Labs #3463 (Forbidden Fruit) OG 1.071 Fermentation went nuts for the first 48 then died down rather rapidly, it looks to be about pooped out, but I haven't confirmed with a reading yet. I have been rousing the yeast cake...

How did it turn out? I just experienced some thing very similar to a batch I started Sunday night went nuts by Monday evening, upper 70's, and looked rather pooped out by Tuesday evening. I will check my gravity tonight or tomorrow.

I went back to Lowes last night tape measure in hand. It looks to be just shy of 17" wide due to the baffels that the shelves sit on and the back shelf has only 4" of usable depth. Needless to say its a gamble to get 2 cornys to sit side by side. Im going with the Sanyo SR-4912M instead.

I just picked up a whole conversion kit, tower and all. I prefer the DYI over a used setup :D

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@jmo88, I was thinking the same thing! The 4.4 is right next to this model in the store. I will grab a tape measure from the tools section and see how it compares internally :D As for the kegs, I picked up 2 new "shiny" Italian models as an upgrade to my equipment order.

I went ahead and shot Frigidaire an email asking if they could help out. I did look a little deeper and found the parts guide online: http://manuals.frigidaire.com/prodinfo_pdf/Anderson/5995574067.pdf It looks like the evaporator coils are not embed in the case, but are just against the back...

I have decided to start kegging after much advice from some local home brewers. I went to Lowe's to look at the latest incarnation of the Frigidaire FRC445GB which is popular in conversion when I came across the Frigidaire FFBC46F5LS "Beverage Center"...