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I am now buying all of my grains at my LHBS. I have bought online before, but LHBS's need the business and I no longer pinch pennies. I usually buy my yeast there, too. Hops I order in bulk online because while I'm not cheap, I'm not stupid enough to pay $3 per oz. My LHBS carries Briess...

I just tapped my first beer that I diluted 80/20 with distilled water, no other modifications. I’m floored. First time using citra hops, which I’m not a huge fan of now, and pressurized fermenting in an all rounder. This old dog has learned some new tricks and he is happy. I purchased a RO...

How did they turn out?

Hops Direct has great prices on hops, especially if you are willing to use prior year hops. Another cost saver is either using dry yeast, or washing and reusing your yeast. I buy my grains at LHBS, but I used to get cheap sacks of 2 row at a local brewery before they closed.

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First time for me with an all-rounder as well. I’m sitting at 10 days with the pressure at just over 15 psi. I bought a picnic tap off Amazon to take gravity samples. Tonights attempt at a gravity reading: 1) Beer geyser from the hose to ball lock connection. In my haste to stop the eruption I...

I ordered mine September 9th and it delivered yesterday.

I usually pitch at 80 and ferment in a 65 degree basement. I primarily use S04 and US05.

I thought my 5th batch, 2nd all grain was really good. By 10 I was really humming. I dumped batch 6 because I developed my own stout recipe and thought I was an expert. A full pound of black patent in a 5 gallon batch.

My 65L finally got delivered today! Soooo excited to brew with it, but I’m flush with beer and want to get my basement brew room finished first.

If you strung together 2 or 3 kegs on a 30 psi fermentation, you would have plenty of CO2 to run your keggerator, and the beer would already be carbonated.

By far the best dough I have ever made. I had both regular and beer crust, and everyone liked the beer crust better...even the kids.

I've been using the 5 minute a day artesian bread recipe for years, modified a bit for my pizza dough: 3 cups water 1T yeast 1T kosher salt 3.5C King Arthur bread flour 3c white flour My wife bought me an OONI pellet fired pizza oven yesterday. We fired it up and it was amazing! Anyway, it...

I can definitely say that I made so much CO2 I’m thinking of ways to harvest it.

OP here. The new all-rounders have been great. My 10 year old checks them every couple hours and reports on the yeast progress. I’m going to have to buy him a couple of Tilts for Christmas and pair them to his iPad. To settle this ABV measurement discussion, I suggest we agree on a new...