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It actually turned out really nice. The cereal favors were a bit too subtle and faded fairly quick but it had a huge mouth feel and the underlying milk stout was excellent.

We brewed up a milk stout with an off-the-shelf breakfast cereal (mostly added to the mash but also added some to the boil). This is a sugary sweet kiddie cereal (Reese's Puffs) - not an "adult" cereal. We're thinking about entering it in a contest but have no idea what category to enter it in...

After a year or so of semi-loyal service my home-made computer-fan stir plate seems to be on it's last leg. Rather than cobble another one together I was thinking I might spring for a commercially made one. While looking on eBay I noticed that a lot of the ones made for laboratory work also...

Thanks for the quick responses. I actually have a false bottom in my BK too Dolomieu (albeit a really cheap little one). It definitely helps but I still get a goodly amount of crud going through the CFC into the fermenter. Homebrew57 I may go that route. Shortening the diptube would be easy and...

We're using a three keggle eHERMS system. In an effort to maximize yield, I built it so that the diptube in the boil kettle draws from the little concave section in the center of the bottom of the keg. This unfortunately precludes us from whirl-pooling (all the hop gunk builds up right on top of...

Aha - good to know! That's pretty much exactly what I was wondering about (and it also clears up another question I had). Well, since the DI filter is already on there and it's not costing me anything extra to use it, I may as well. And if it ever craps out, I'll just bypass it altogether...

Don't take this the wrong way but I think you guys are doing the same thing I found on most the other posts asking about RO and/or DI water - assuming that I plan on brewing with 100% RO/DI and building the chem profile back up from that blank slate. That is not the case. I only plan on using it...

My wife and I practically live at Tribute Brewing when ever we're in Northern Wisconsin (which is about once a month). Great beers and great people. Maybe we'll run into you there sometime Yooper. :)

My wife and I practically live at Tribute Brewing when ever we're in Northern Wisconsin (which is about once a month). Great beers and great people. Maybe we'll run into you there sometime Yooper. :)

I may do just that (send both off for testing). Would like to see how they compare. Both stages are definitely after the RO membrane though. And there was no holding tank with this system. It was labeled as a "portable" system. It actually serves my purposes well (or rather will once I figure...

It's not real clear whether it does or not. The instruction sheet is pretty much useless. Here's what the description said on the eBay auction I bought it from: DUAL USE REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER FILTER SYSTEMS DI FOR AQUARIUM USE OR ANY OTHER APPLICATION NEEDING DI DRINKING WATER AND...

I'm sure this has been covered already somewhere but I wasn't able to find the answer so hopefully someone can help. I just bought an RO system which has a bypassable DI stage. As the very scant instruction sheet says, "Blue Tube is for the drinking water. White Tube is your DI water." I bought...

My wife and I have been brewing about a year and a half now and have done somewhere around 38 batches in that time. I've got a goodly amount of beer on hand from last year (we kind of went crazy brewing nearly every weekend last summer!) and have been finding that some are tasting really nice...

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Excellent! Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely add some insulation when I build mine.