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    Bridge Rectifier?

    Hey everyone. I have done a bunch of googling and searches here but can't figure out what the bridge rectifier does or how to wire it with the stc-1000? I know I'm going to be making a kreezer, which brand and size I'm not sure yet. If some one can point me to a link about what and how that...
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    Powdered potassium metabisulfite

    I found a really good deal on amazon for powdered potassium metabisulfite and was wondering what was the weight I should use to dechlorinate my water? Tablets are 3 times as much for the same amount weighted out.
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    Filtering water?

    I have been searching for info on this and not sure if I found what I wanted so I'll put it to all of you to help me. I want to get a single water filter housing and filter my tap water to 5 or 2 microns. My tap water taste is full of chlorine amd I drink ro water so why brew with it. But here's...
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    Chocolate cherry porter 3 gal

    I have been looking for a 3 gallon recipe. I just picked and froze 3.5lbs of tart cherries off my tree and was looking at using them. It is hard to find 3 gal recipes. Any help would be awesome
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    hop rhizomes

    I was if there is anyone in Canada that could send me a cutting so I could grow some of my own hops. Every time I try to order them, I'm too late and they are some out. Thanks guys
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    f....f......f.....f

    i just tried to degass my mean that has been in the primary for three months and oaked for a couple of days. i had a huge lose cause it exploded. im such an idiot. i hope that this doesn,t wreck my batch. i have a gal of water with campedt tablets in it to top it off. please tell me i dint...
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    Degassing

    I just added my oak piece to my mead and when I dropped it in there was a large amount of gas released. I have been fermenting this 23liters for the last three months and I noticed that there was very little activity coming from the airlock. I was wondering if I should be doing something else...
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    sanke kegs??

    i was wondering how hard this are to use in home brewing. just talked to the local brew shop and he said that it is a hard way to go about it so i was looking for in put. i have used the Cornelius kegs before and realize that they are easy but i can get free sanke kegs. thanks
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    sanke kegs??

    i was wondering how hard this are to use in home brewing. just talked to the local brew shop and he said that it is a hard way to go about it so i was looking for in put. i have used the Cornelius kegs before and realize that they are easy but i can get free sanke kegs. thanks
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    mr malty??

    i just need to get this cleared up.. if I'm using re pitching from slurry and it says that i need 87ml of yeast. is that the amount that i pitch or the amount that i need to get the starter going? if i need to build up to 87ml then how do i figure out how much to start the starter with?
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    yeast washing

    i was wondering how you decide on how much of the yeast you use when making your starter. there must be a method to measuring it out. or is it use the whole cake in a jar at a time and build it up in a starter. can there be bad effects of using too much yeast in a starter???? there is alot of...
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    using washed yeast

    i was wondering how you decide on how much of the yeast you use when making your starter. there must be a method to measuring it out. or is it use the whole cake in a jar at a time and build it up in a starter. can there be bad effects of using too much yeast in a starter???? there is alot of...
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    dandelion wine?? help

    me and my girlfriend went out and picked a whack for flowers, 2.5kg, a few weeks ago and this is what i did with them. steeped them with for 30 mintues 2 oranges zest and juice 1 lemon zest and juice 2 cm cube of ginger root 4 cloves 4 kd of suger this is in 12l of water added three more liters...
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    possible infecion

    so after a week of oaking my first large batch i take a look just to see if the sack of oak has sunk yet. i went and got a pair of nylons and marbles to use to hold the oak chips. soaked them in star san for about 30mins then put it in carboy and racked over top. well now it has been a week and...
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    oaking

    i was thinking i should oak my mead and see what happens. my recipe is 12lbs of a medium coloured local honey topped the carboy with water 1118 yeast nutrient energizer that is all that is there now. so i went and bought toasted oak, regular oak and french oak because i didn't know which one to...
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    just put on

    12 pounds of local honey 18l of water 5 tsp energizer 5 tsp nutrient then campange yeast 1118 lalvin hydro read about 14%. after it is ready to be put on to the secondary i will break it up into gallon jugs to rack onto different fruits to try to make different flavours. i hope this...
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    to figure out the ratio?

    i am thinking of buying a gallon of local honey or even two if the price is right. if i was to use one gallon of honey how do you figure out how much water to use? i was thinking as well of when i rack off into the second that i would take a couple of one gallon jugs and put frozen fruit into...
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    just bottled

    it was a simple recipe honey water yeast and i added a apple cut up. i left it in the primary for a month then racked it off. it sat there for another 3 months and it came time to bottle it to me. that and i was bottle some white wine. so of course there was half a bottle left over so i had to...
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    mead in a gallon jug

    i have had my mead in a gallon jug now for about 2 months. i have racked it once to help with the clearing. i have to bottle some wine in the next week or so . i thought it mud=st be time to bottle the mead and then let it age in a bottle for the rest of the time. would another 6 months be good??
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    made my first gal of mead

    not sure how it will taste and how much alcohol it will be in it. i was in a hurry and didn't take a reading, my bad. but i put in 1.375kg of honey, two apples slice and cleaned and enough water to fill the bottle to the gal line. gave that mother a good old shake, like it was a baby. then...
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