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  1. bottlebomber

    I want to arrange a group buy

    For Veet men's hair removal cream. It is an excellent product, and even if you have never considered hair removal you may after you learn about this amazing product. Just look at some of the reviews of thousands of satisfied customers and tell me that you don't want this. Seriously, look...
  2. bottlebomber

    An actual infection!

    It started about 2 weeks ago as a small white spot on a Saison I did a couple months ago. I'm not shocked, it's right next to 4 pails of sours I've got going, and I had been doing some thiefing and probably wasn't thorough enough about cleaning it. So the chances are that whatever this is is...
  3. bottlebomber

    Thats not possible!!

    This hydrometer just fell 5 feet off the top of the fridge onto the concrete floor of the garage, and survived. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket.
  4. bottlebomber

    Cat Porn

    My wife constantly sends me links to and picture messages of what I affectionately refer to as Cat Porn. It's incredibly obnoxious, because I hate cats. They don't make me happy like they make her. Because I love the woman to death I at least pretend to be interested around 50% of the time...
  5. bottlebomber

    I bottled a little cider today

    It was actually quite a bit - 24 gallons, and then 6 gallons of cyser. The cider was a mix of a sharp French cider apple, and Gravensteins. Some Seckel pears also made it in. It was a first attempt, and honestly the acidity was quite high over what I would like but there it is. I did give it MLC...
  6. bottlebomber

    Has anyone tried caramelizing lactose?

    I am working on a creme brûlée stout recipe. The beer has been made, 1.100 down to 1.025 with 4 ounces of lactose in the boil. I want to add some dark caramelized sugar to give it that burnt sugar element. I started thinking about the idea of caramelizing lactose, as it is not fermentable and so...
  7. bottlebomber

    Wow jump on this!

    I found this link through a Slovenian hop farm I've been following. Their hops are offered along with some excellent staple hops for the amazing price of 10 bucks a pound with $5 flat shipping. I ordered a ton. Jump on it. I'm excited about the Apollo...
  8. bottlebomber

    Attn: North Bay brewers - Comp

    Has anyone in the North Bay region heard about this? I'm going to enter a couple of beers, pretty excited as it will be my first comp http://www.sonomacommunitycenter.org/Sonoma_Community_Center/beer_2012.html
  9. bottlebomber

    Does your wort look like this?

    Out of my cooler mash tun, I'm only pulling wort like this halfway through my sparge. Are some of you getting this from your first runnings? Im lautering about a quart for my first and second runnings, but it really only clears off the chunks.
  10. bottlebomber

    What should I make?

    I want to brew tomorrow or Friday, and I'm not going down to the HBS. This is what I've got: 15 lbs pilsener malt 1 lb honey malt 8 ounces melanoidin 8 ounces Carapils 4 ounces acid malt I've got WLP029 Kolsch, Wyeast 1010 Am. Wheat, Wyeast 3787 Trappist HG, Wyeast 2001 Czech Lager, US-04, 05...
  11. bottlebomber

    Best option for corking american champagne bottles?

    I just got 10 cases of what I believe are american champagne bottles, the mouth is 16.7 mm according to the blueprint. They are the only champagne style bottles my wholesaler had. I am looking for the best/most attractive method for corking these. I had somebody pick me up "corks" and they came...
  12. bottlebomber

    Good grief are you freakin kidding me...

    A little about myself - I am a proud father of 3 handsome boys. They are not my wifes biological children, they are from my previous marriage. My ex-wife went super crackhead in '09 and so I had her replaced. She hasn't seen the boys in over a year, and has had several drug and domestic violence...
  13. bottlebomber

    How many cells do you think I have?

    Not brain cells... I guarantee the yeast have the majority vote there. I'm making a lager yeast starter, and since I am going to be fermenting this at the very bottom of its tolerance I want to make sure I have plenty of cells. This is what I've done: I made a 2 liter starter with a nicely...
  14. bottlebomber

    Pliny for DFH?

    I went to RR this evening and picked up a half case (12-16.9 oz) of Pliny the Elder. Of course it rocks, with its legendary hop flavor and balanced malty-dry finish. The batch was bottled 12 days ago. I am really interested in trying some of DFHs "occasional rarities", as I only have the 60...
  15. bottlebomber

    Buckets vs Carboys

    An obscene amount of brewing has caused me to buy buckets. Before I have only used glass carboys. I have heard many people on here say they will only use buckets, or they will only use carboys.I don't feel that im biased towards one or the other, but this is what I've found: Buckets - (cons) Im...
  16. bottlebomber

    crazy cider fermentation

    So I hit these with yeast yesterday: 5 fermenters of fresh pressed cider. OG was 1.055. Pitched montrachet... smells of dog farts fill the room. Barely 24 hours later the gravity is .996. Tastes like lemon juice
  17. bottlebomber

    first cider attempt this weekend

    I have about 200 pounds of apples picked last weekend and kept in cold storage, mostly gravensteins. I am going to be making hard cider with EC-118. I REALLY don't want to use campden tablets for some reason, I just want it to be apple juice and yeast. Is this unwise? This will be my first cider...
  18. bottlebomber

    This is interesting...

    This is the bottom of my fermenter. The trub dropped out first, but then when the yeast (WLP007) settled, it looks like little pebbles. Never seen this before, and I've used this yeast several times. Has anyone noticed this?
  19. bottlebomber

    brew stoopids

    Hey bottlebomber what's that? Its my brand new plastic test vial I bought after breaking my glass one. Why is it all melted? Cause I left it too close to the Bayou Burner. What's that trapped inside the melted test vial bottlebomber? Why its my hydrometer smart@ss. Well how are you going to...
  20. bottlebomber

    why would this happen?

    Tonight I made a 2 liter starter as I've done many times. Only THIS time, I thought back to a thread I read recently where everyone was talking about how they'd boiled their stir bars in the flask. So because everyone is doing it, I decided id give it a shot. This is what happened. When I...
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