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Just bought a couple batches worth of ingredients from Hop Craft due to my excellent customer service experience with them in the past. My wife bought me a really nice kettle that I wanted from them online. Long story short, I didn't need the kettle. Not wanting to foot the very large bill to...

Price down to $240. Last stop before I send back to Hop Craft. Seems to be sold out everywhere.

Reduced price from $290 to $275. Going to return it to store soon.

$240- Austin Area (Round Rock) - $240 - Brand new, unopened in original box. Paid $280. Have to return to Hop Craft soon, and take a loss due to shipping. Now is your chance! Seems to be sold out everywhere. It is this item (bought from this site): BrewBuilt™ 15 Gallon Brew Kettle -...

My advice would be to match up the bitterness ratio from the original recipe by adjusting hops quantity. Just to the right of the color "slider" in the screenshot above. ---edit---- Looks like the bitterness ratio on the original is 1.25ish. But, how that I looked at some clone recipes, I'm...

Wow. 13 years later! :)

I can remember the near amazement after sampling my first homebrew. Holy cow! That was pretty easy! Once you get over the amazement, you start to pick apart your beers with a more critical palate. And then the obsession begins. Enjoy!

Sparge water is a more likely tannin culprit than mash water.

Hmm. . . Are you sure that your Twice the Ice dispenses RO water? Months ago, I looked on their website and it stated that RO water is an option for owners vs. filtered. But, at my location (the one I use, I don't own it), there is no mention of it being RO. Just curious if yours is RO. If...

I've read a lot (so, that part is hearsay) that suggests dms and/or precursors are driven off in way less time than thought. My perceptive pallet has never had an issue with a normal 60-minute boil on an all-pilsner recipe. Only bring this up so everyone can look at evidence and decide for...

I, too, used Saflager 34/70.

This.

Got ya. So, I remember my son had a root beer kit that used yeast to carbonate. It had caps that would relieve pressure, but still hold enough to carbonate. Spent some time looking, they are like the ones on this page: https://www.vat19.com/item/mr-root-beer-kit --edit-- like these...

Ah . . . bottling. I don't even worry about temperature too much when carbing in a bottle. Just (steady) room temp for a couple of two, three weeks.

Last year, I did both a Festbier (current, light colored beer served at German Oktoberfest), and a Marzen (served prior to nineteen ninety-something). For the festbier: 9# pilsner, 3.5# Vienna, 0.5# melanoiden. For the marzen: All munich and vienna (7.5 & 5.5, resp) with 12 oz of...