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...But neither one comes close to a Fresh Press or a pour over.
For us those are weekend treats, or if I end up with an exceptionally nice single origin.

Weekday morns are drip brewer to fill up our go cups before heading out to work. And, just because I say it that way doesn't mean it's Folgers in the cup. LOL.
 
For us those are weekend treats, or if I end up with an exceptionally nice single origin.

Weekday morns are drip brewer to fill up our go cups before heading out to work. And, just because I say it that way doesn't mean it's Folgers in the cup. LOL.
I hear you, really. Retired now but while I was working I'd set the drip coffee timer to start brewing about 5 minutes before my alarm went off. Some mornings, if I was quick enough, I'd grab that first cup before brewing was even finished. :coff3:
 
A small order from Brew Hardware. A bunch of Maris Otter, some flaked corn, EKG hops, dry yeast, bottle caps, Iodophor, phosphoric acid, ss hose clamps.
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How do you like it? Been thinking a vacuum sealer could come in handy once in a while, might have to ask Santa...

I use our vacuum sealer on a somewhat regular basis. We sometimes buy or end up with larger quantities of fresh food items or leftovers or coffee beans or whatever then I break it down to smaller amounts and vac seal it for freezing.
 
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I use our vaccum sealer on a somewhat regular basis. We somtimes buy or end up with larger quantities of fresh food items or leftovers or coffee or whatever then I break it down to smaller amounts and vac seal it for freezing.
Same here. Not to mention partial bags of hops and unmilled grains.
 
I bought mine about 10 years ago (it's still hanging in there!). Originally bought it to seal up hops and a few other things. Came in handy during the pandemic for splitting up food for the freezer. And saving leftovers, of course. It's one of those "how did I get along without one" devices.
 
I bought ours back in 2011 when I started growing/drying/vacuum freezing hops, but The Spousal Unit enjoys finding bulk meat purchases on sale and then needs a way to break them into meal-size portions for the deep freeze. If you want to avoid freezer burned meat, you really need something like a FoodSaver or equivalent...

Cheers!
 
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These I packed in my luggage 3 planes to get home luggage dropped and slammed who knows how many times and not even a chip of damage.
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This was a box of six steins 5 from Germany packed and shipped by an absolutely incompetent moron working at an UPS store. Anger doesn’t cover how my hubby and I feel about this. They belonged to his brother who recently passed. Claim will be filed tomorrow.
 
Grain and hops and yeast -
25 lb golden promise
35 lb Two row
30 lb pale ale
15 lb brown ale
5 lb caro 60
7 lb flaked oats

One pound each
Centennial, Magnum, Mosaic, fuggles, UK Kent goldings, glacier

4 packs of dry yeast
US-05, Nottingham, Novalager, 34-70

All loaded up for the winter season cooking!
 
10# oak smoked wheat
12’ Vinyl 3/8 line
2 inline filters so I can oxygenate wort
Warrior hops
Bottle filling wand spring to replace a gravity tipped one that’s not closing very well anymore.
Couple yeasts. Going out of business sale . ☹️
That's a lotta smoked wheat. Whatcha gonna do with it all?

Brew on :mug:
 
10# oak smoked wheat
12’ Vinyl 3/8 line
2 inline filters so I can oxygenate wort
Warrior hops
Bottle filling wand spring to replace a gravity tipped one that’s not closing very well anymore.
Couple yeasts. Going out of business sale . ☹️

A big batch of Grodziskie coming up?
 
I haven’t brewed a Grodziskie in a while and I like the smoke to be a little pronounced even if it isn’t quite to style that way.

I've brewed it a couple times, and even did one as a pro-am with a local brewery.

My recipe has always been all oak-smoked wheat with just some acid malt for pH adjustment.
 
I've brewed it a couple times, and even did one as a pro-am with a local brewery.

My recipe has always been all oak-smoked wheat with just some acid malt for pH adjustment.
Yes, I’ve won gold a couple times with it on the east coast, and the same beer also had gotten disparaging remarks in other parts of the country. (Too smoky I can’t taste anything else, etc) Descriptions from the brewery in Poland emphasize light smoke and clarity, and say that Live Oak in Austin TX makes one they consider to be good. Since I cannot get the real deal here, I must take their word for it. I have about 5# that’s been sitting around, so the 100% may fit the bill, if not I have this fresh supply.
 
I'll be interested in your use of the wlp618...

Cheers!
I have by no means tasted all the NA brews available, but so far I like a couple from Athletic and Brew dog. Guinness NA is very drinkable. What I hate about all of them is the price. So, while I will not likely produce anything with zero ETOH is will be very low. I have no idea if it will actually be good, but it’s worth an experiment.
 
My discounted 2023 hops from Yakima Valley! I ordered one pound each of two varieties. One was sealed up tight; the other had lost its vacuum. 😞

If it just lost it in the shipping across the country, no biggy. But if it lost it last year when it was packaged, I am a little concerned.

In any case, I just slipped the whole package into a mylar bag and sealed it with my sealer. I guess it will be ok.
 
Fresh Brew stuff from Brewhardware.
Beer line cleaning manifold and some acidulated malt. Just in time - beer line cleaning scheduled for tomorrow.
Sounds exciting, cleaning beer lines.

I thought about getting one of those manifolds but instead got a couple beer line jumpers. Works great, daisy chain the beer lines and tap faucet ends. One in, one out, all cleaned at once.
 
Sounds exciting, cleaning beer lines.

I thought about getting one of those manifolds but instead got a couple beer line jumpers. Works great, daisy chain the beer lines and tap faucet ends. One in, one out, all cleaned at once.
Never heard of a beer line jumper. Gotta check it out, I have a 4 out manifold and six taps... So I was planning on ... Duplicating two lines each cleaning (i.e 1-4, followed by 3-6) but with a jumper, could I do six at once?
 
Sounds exciting, cleaning beer lines.

I thought about getting one of those manifolds but instead got a couple beer line jumpers. Works great, daisy chain the beer lines and tap faucet ends. One in, one out, all cleaned at once.
Never heard of a beer line jumper. Gotta check it out, I have a 4 out manifold and six taps... So I was planning on ... Duplicating two lines each cleaning (i.e 1-4, followed by 3-6) but with a jumper, could I do six at once?
I built something myself like the cleaning manifold you bought because the daisy chaining didn't work on my four tap jockey box (has coils). That has smaller and longer tubing than a kegerator and the daisy chaining didn't work. (Spike flow pump, 9.5 PSI). You get better pressure with the manifold as it is in parallel.

@Willy did you watch the video at Brewhardware? Bobby mentions adding another post to one end for five taps if desired. I've done that on CO2 manifolds before, added a line off the end. What you could do though is to add a stainless tee at the end plus two posts and then you would have six all at once. You'd need a nipple for the tee.

I built mine out of stainless steel barbed tees and short tubing runs. Three tees is all that is needed but I added an elbow on the end to turn the tubing up towards the last tap. I connect mine with growler attachments on my Intertap faucets. The Brewhardware one is simpler looking, more rigid and connects easier. I didn't consider using the ball lock keg posts, they're on the more expensive side but using the free flow ones is less expensive.
 
I built something myself like the cleaning manifold you bought because the daisy chaining didn't work on my four tap jockey box (has coils). That has smaller and longer tubing than a kegerator and the daisy chaining didn't work. (Spike flow pump, 9.5 PSI). You get better pressure with the manifold as it is in parallel.

@Willy did you watch the video at Brewhardware? Bobby mentions adding another post to one end for five taps if desired. I've done that on CO2 manifolds before, added a line off the end. What you could do though is to add a stainless tee at the end plus two posts and then you would have six all at once. You'd need a nipple for the tee.

I built mine out of stainless steel barbed tees and short tubing runs. Three tees is all that is needed but I added an elbow on the end to turn the tubing up towards the last tap. I connect mine with growler attachments on my Intertap faucets. The Brewhardware one is simpler looking, more rigid and connects easier. I didn't consider using the ball lock keg posts, they're on the more expensive side but using the free flow ones is less expensive.
I thought about using T's but didn't consider replacing the plug at the end with a T. At present, I am just going to leave and do a double run on the darker ale lines because they should be dirtier ... In theory. :)
 

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