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I guess I'm looking for alittle guy back up here.. My buddy shows up last Saturday arounf 9pm I'm out in the shed working on stuff. He comes in We have a couple beer. about 10:30 he says lets go out. I want to but the last weekend I ended up getting lost on my wheeler (with the same guy)...

I'm lazy.. Go a 3 1/2 month old baby up stairs, I'm lucky to be here typing.!!! I scored a 53L or 5 gallon keg if you will on the weekend.. problem is that it has that stupid plastic on the top and bottom. What the best way to get that off?? I plan on using it for a kettle not a keg!!.. I'm...

After reading ChshreCat's post about his dog I want to post some pics of my wicked dogs.. Instead of stealing his thread My dogs told me to smarten up (I cleaned up the translation) and post my own thred.. Here my my muts: Cruiser ,,aka. "Boobs" the larger black Aussie And Switch aka...

Wife and I just had a little girl and I couldn't be happier, it's incredible how fast you can love something so new. Here's my problem, I'm an Outdoors kinda guy, I have a few hobbies I like to do every now and then. I'm used to getting home everyday getting the dogs and going outside. Our...

I always take all the fitting off the kegs every couple of times I put a new batch in. Tonight I had the bright idea of throwing the parts in the keg to soak in the Star San instead of cleaning the in the sink. I figured kill 2 birds with one stone.. Well it was a good idea until I tried to get...

I wanted to do a poll but I guess I can't .. I myself had to add a heat lamp to my fer. chamber.. but I see alot of guys have to add a refrigeration unit. just wondering what the count is?

Anyone else do a "Swamp keg" It's the keg I use to poor all my extra beer into after I transfer from the fer. to the keg.. Alot of all grain guys wouldn't have this but us Extract guys get an extra 4L or 1 Gallon.. sometimes instead of bottling I dump the extra into a keg and just wait until...

I'd like to install a laundry pump in our basement across from my brew room. Right now I have to go upstairs to the bathroom to use the tub to clean my gear. My issue is that the out for the plumping is 3' up from the basement floor. I was thinking of getting one of these...

Does any ones else have to many hobbies!! killing the bank account all at once!!!!! I got Me Beer.. duh.. trying to make the jump to all grain Advide off roader.. got a 01' TJ on 36's.. plus a 4 wheeler .. blah blah Got the chainsaw bug.. 3 saws. plus growing.. looking for new projects...

I just wanted to some opinions. I but a batch on about 3 weeks ago, due to time restriction I did not do a yeast starter. I checked on it a couple days later and it looked pretty dead, couple days after that same.. I forgot about for awhile, now it's 3 weeks.. I took it out of my Fer...

Anyone else have an issue with the lids of the buckets breaking? I have 4 buckets and 7 lids or which I think all but 2 have some degree of a rip around the rim.. I wanted to do 2 batches last nigth but could only do 1 since I didn't have enough lids.. Back to using Carboys I guess.. Use the...

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I need some ideas for what to put on my fridge.. I was thinking of going through all my digital photos and making a big colage (spelling?) then I thought about maybe trying to find some old B/W brewing/brewery photos or I could just do some kind of cool graphic texture thing.. opinions...

Well I've been doing the semi-open fermenting for awhile now never had any issues. Tonight I walk in the door and the smell hit me right away, my thoughts were either the tap on the Kegger got hit or something happened with the batch I picthed on Monday. Turns out my krausen got so big it lifted...

After playing the "time waster" game for the last hour I decieded to start a thread so everyone could post their fav flash games.. I like th epuzzle types of games and really enjoyed these 2 Bloxorz - Flash Games, Free Games, Online Games, Addicting Games Grid Lock Game there's a couple...

Anyone know what affect Star San would have on a home Septic system? I've heard that it was bad to be dumping alot of Sanitizer down your drain due to the way a house hold septic system works.

I found a 60 qaurt bowl locally for $50.. Anyone use anythign like this. I'm trying to figure out what I could do to it to make it work. I'm trying to find out if it has a %100 round bottom.

What do you guys do with he left beer from a batch that won't fit into a Corny? I Was thinking of having a Swamp keg.. one with a few different types in it..But what if you can't fill the keg at one time? would there be any adverse affect from putting in a gallon or 2 at a time then purging...

I'd like to know what the benifits/drawbacks are to aging in different stages. I know the answer is probably "depends on the beer". But for us newer fellas what are the advantages to aging in the secondary vs. the Keg? some guys don't even go 2ndary and leave long term in the primary...

Anyone know if they typically run cooling lines in the bottom of fridges? I thinking of keeping my CO2 tank on the outside and I have perfect access to the bottom on the fridge to drill a hole. I think it's just all foam insulation but it's not worh being wrong.