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Or, just have a "Bad Batch" day and the beers are $0.50 or something to cover the cost of cleaning the glass.

Friends with his breeder. He is being trained to be my mobility service animal.

5 Gallons Irish Red Ale 3650 + 5 = 3655

Any updates? I just pre-ordered mine to plant near Prague, OK.

+5 gallons of Chocolate Milk Stout = 2117

So, my first attempt at this was the Chocolate Milk Stout, and it actually was a hit. Such a hit, that the wife requested I do it again. I did a full write up on it at my new brewing website, so I'm not going to go through that again. What I am going to do though, is impart a few...

Hmm.. Just a sampling of my hobbies, I have many more to my wife's annoyance. Ham Radio - Around $3k in startup costs, upwards of $200 - $1000 a year in new hardware and parts. Music Composition - Around $6k in startup costs, upwards of $600 - $2000 a year in new gear and software. Jeep...

I use secondaries. Old habit from mead making days. It is required, is there proof in the why? .. Not that I have seen. Yet, I have not seen proof against it beyond "added work". Also, but running the secondary, if I decide at the last minute to throw something in (spice/chocolate/whatever), I...

Not sure on the vanilla, still learning.. On the gravity, 2 days before you WANT to bottle, take a reading. On the day of bottle, take another reading. If they match, bottle. If they don't, you run a risk of things becoming interesting if you still bottle. I have learned in just my two...

Well, I will be following this one, as my friends have requested I give this kit (full batch) a try.

4 samoyeds, big white fluffy double coated dogs. 1 akita, big black white brown double coated dog. 2 young cats, diluted tortoise shell. I'm sure there is hair in my beer, but I have gotten so used to it, I don't see it anymore. I do lock them out of the rooms with gates (no doors) when I am...

@azazel1024 Which is why my final line on my response.. "And she is right, but I wouldn't have the pleasure of saying .. I did it." I have had much better Chocolate Milk Stouts than the one I just brewed and finally got to taste last night. Yet, I have not had better where I can say .. It's...

@Ferde357 I am allowed (by state law and license) to brew 200 gallons of beer. At 5 gallon batches, that is 40 batches. At 4 dollars a batch for yeast, doing this would save me $156 a year. (That's minus one batch for the initial collection.) .. While that seems like a drop in the bucket, I get...

My final update on this thread. Thank you all. It tastes a bit sweeter than expected. I don't think the ABV is where I wanted it. Yet, none of that matters. The wife likes it and says I can keep brewing. Oh, and only 2 weeks in bottles.

You think it's nerve racking now? Try meads. :p That's actually where I started. Beer has more little things going on, but the results are generally faster.

Nope. It's not right at all. To quote someone else here, you need to dispose of that. You can send it to me for proper disposal. :cross: It's fine, and yes, the yeast can start back up if it stalled. (So I have read.)

This is exactly the case. When I first hit it with the CO2, it foamed up to the top, and I stopped. My wife even looked over and said "Let it sit, and it's probably ready." Of course, I went.. "But it didn't buzz!" and hit the button again, until it buzzed. That's when I made an even...

~4 Gallon Chocolate Milk Stout (Didn't account for boil off) 5 Gallon Caribou Slobber 1175 + 4 + 5 = 1184

I actually just posted my experience doing this on the newbie forum. Let's just say.. I'm glad my wife can laugh things off as the bottle shout out of my hand and across the kitchen as a chocolate milk stout rocket of doom.

This is correct. I didn't mix enough, and I was almost a gallon off (didn't account for boil off), and my OG on a stout was 1.014. After 2 weeks, I measured and it was 1.024. At bottling (5 weeks) it was 1.020. Which is what I expect, as it was only ~4 gallons and not the 5 it should have been.