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I'm on "Staycation" this week and I've decided to do some brewing. I brewed a Foreign extra stout on Monday. Then on Wed. I handn't had my fill of brewing so I checked my stockpile of brewing ingredients and came up with the following made from various leftovers: OG: 1.039 IBU...

My daughter has a Kindle and she loves it. So much so that I've been kind of wanting one of my own. I recently discovered that I could cash in some S&H Greenpoints and get enough in Amazon Gift cards to cover the cost of the unit. My only hesitation is the cost of the books. I buy most of...

We are moving soon and the new place has a building out back that will someday, after I finish all of my other inside work, become a brew-pub. But, for now I'm going to be using it for a place to store my brewing stuff. I have a fermentation fridge that I want to use but, there is no...

I brewed Jamil's oatmeal stout recipe. I scaled it down a bit because my efficiency is typically in the low 80s. I mashed at 155 and every thing seemed to go fine. My OG was two points lower than expected. (1.051) I changed the yeast because I had a tube of wlp004 and I fermented it...

I was driving along yesterday on the way to meet up with some guys from my homebrew club to pick up my grain from group buy. I looked off to the left and I saw a pile of junk beside the road and I noticed the pile contained a pony keg. I turned around a went back and picked it up. I'm...

With fall approaching I find my self wanting to cook something over a wood fire. My father-in-law used to cook a stew outdoors over a wood fired pot every fall. The stew was great, but to me, the real fun was the cooking. He's long gone now and my brothers and I cook a stew outdoors every...

I listened to the Jamil podcasts about Fuller's London Pride and ESB. I absolutely love the ESB and I would love to get something close. The general consensus was that to get the true ESB you'd need to do a parti-gyle. But, to me, most of the information on parti-gyle brewing is just...

http://www.wimp.com/snappingturtles/ I hate to admit it but, It looks kind of fun.

I'm sitting here looking at an empty glass of Fuller's ESB and wishing like hell I bought more than just one. I'm not much of a hop head so the "B" in ESB made me a little hesitant to buy more than one in a mixed sixer the other day. Damn!

I was planning on brewing an Alt tomorrow. I picked up the wrong vial of yeast at the LHBS today and they are not open on Sunday. I'd still like to brew tomorrow but I don't want to try a "German" alt with "English" ale yeast. I'm wondering if you guys could suggest a recipe/style from the...

I bought a grain mill a couple of weeks ago and I've been dying to use it. So, when my feet hit the floor yesterday morning I had brewing on my mind. Ive been planning to brew a Classic American Pilsner for a few weeks and I've listened to Jamil's pod cast several times. I decided to try a...

I downloaded a trial copy of Beersmith. It looks cool but I'm not sure how much I would use it. Anyhow, I just finished an all grain brew. I punched the numbers into Beersmith to see what my efficiency was. It shows three different numbers. Actual efficiency: 95.36 % Efficiency...

Mission Aborted: I woke up this morning excited about brew day. Today I was supposed to be brewing my 1st lager. This would be my first brew day in 7 months. I got my stuff out, cleaned it up, and begun heating my strike water. Once I was up to temp. I dumped it in to my cooler to...

I just saw a Powerball winner on the morning news. He won 141 Million dollars. He took the lump sum and got 47 Million after taxes. Thats a 94 Million dollar difference. I'm not sure what percentage of that 94 Mil was taxes, but that's a BIG difference. I've never looked into it myself...

I'm thinking of using a cooler to build an electric HLT. I was looking at the Coleman X-Treme 50 qt cooler today. ($34 at Wally World) I noticed a warning label that said something like: "This cooler contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer." So, now I'm doubting...

I brewed ten gallons of cream ale. It's a slightly modified version of "Biermuncher's Cream of three crops" It was brewed the second weekend in June and it's been in the primary ever since. (about four months total.) I was able to maintain the temps pretty well for the first couple of...

I have a '50 immersion chiller. My procedure has been to place the chiller in the pot about :15 mins. before the end of the boil. At flameout I whirlpool the wort very well. Then turn on the chiller. This worked fine until I started making 10 gallon batches. Once I've whirlpooled the wort...

My new Johnson Controls A419 temperature controller arrived today. So, naturally, I'm thinking of trying my first Lager. Since I really enjoy Dos equis amber and Negra Modelo, I've decided to make a Mexican Lager my first attempt. After listening to the Basic Brewing podcast about Vienna...

I'm wanting to make an American Wheat for our beach vacation this June. ( I can't wait! :ban: ) I found an extract recipe for a "honey wheat" that looks pretty good. But, I wanted to do an All-Grain version. After playing around with Beer Calculus: OG: 1.048 (1.043 – 1.050) FG...

I'm brewing a Chocolate Imperial Stout later this week. It's a pretty big beer (OG: 1.100) and I'll be using White Labs WLP007. I've decided to make a half batch (2.5 Gals.) since 5 gals would be very expensive. My original plan was to use my Mr. Beer fermenter. Then I got to thinking that...