Recent content by Cromwell

Creamy - I know exactly how you feel. It's frustrating. Unfortunately, I know exactly how your Dad feels too. It's even more frustrating for him. Not being able to hear isolates you, and people leave you out of conversations, and you get to the point where you stop saying "what" and just nod...

There's 40 sacks of grain on a pallet. And how many sacks do we think people here are signing up for? Do I assume correctly we'd have to come up with a full pallet to make it the least burdensome for Enegren? I don't think we have enough interest to total 40 sacks. Maybe we should count the...

Really nice job. Lot of work there. Kudos.

I'd buy 2 sacks! Thanks for doing this!

Yes please!

I'm in!

Depending on the variety, it might be a bit early in the year. In So. Cal, Cascades are 6 feet, but Santiams are only an inch or two. What variety are they? Also, if they're small and it's not hot, you're over-watering them. When they're growing a foot a day they need lots of water...

This is fascinating. Great job, first of all - looks awesome. But it raises a question for me. I'd never considered taking the cooling coils out of an A/C and putting them in water. I built a big lager chamber with an A/C in the side to cool it, and it works, but the A/C cycles pretty fast...

Wow. Enter me please!

It was White Labs Bock yeast, although 3rd generation. I made a stepped starter, so should have been enough, although I'm not sure exactly how much, since it was stepped from a frozen slant. And by "cold" I mean 65 or so. Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll give it another week and take a...

I made a Maibock. OG not too high 1.07. But I forgot to add oxygen. It's been fermenting for about a week now, and it's not going down much. I know it's a lager, and it is cold, but I fear it's going to get stuck if it hasn't already. Will adding oxygen now ruin it? Can I just add more...

My guess, though I'm far from an expert, is infection. An infection will over carbonate your beer. It happened to me in one batch, and ultimately resulted in bottle bombs. Be careful.

Sure, I'll throw in.

Saying "hippies stink" is kind of the same as saying "Conservatives are racist". Sure, some hippies do stink. So do some Conservatives. Not ALL hippies stink - I knew a bunch who were just as hygienic as anyone else. Sure, some Conservatives are racist, like the ones who called the new Miss...

Well, I was never that guy. I didn't know squat about beer, and happily admitted it before I started brewing. I didn't even drink beer except to be social, since the best beer I knew was Michelob or Heineken. Honestly, if I had to limit myself to BMC beer, I'd quit drinking beer again. I...