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Still working on it. Making plans. Keeping an eye out for the right property. We don't plan to be full on self sufficient. We'd be happy if we could subsidize half our food bill over the year. Thanks for all the pointers from you guys! It's really kicked off a lot of research and learning. We...

Without having used it myself, it seems like it should work fine. Keep in mind, cheaper charcoal smokers use a Crap ton of charcoal. You can seal up air leaks, but your probably going to spend another $100 to get that thing to any state of efficiency using coal. If you're OK with upgrading, or...

Before a couple weeks ago, you had to have a minimum volume capacity of 24000 liters per year to sell beer, they removed that, and now the only requirements are a business license and a food safe area to get a liquor license! I can start selling my brew! Now to find the time to brew for myself...

My manifold is similar, and I don't have any solder. Just dry fit. Your not really worried about having it watertight inside the mash, your just filtering. It's super easy to take apart and clean. Just be careful if you dump the grain out. Parts tend to get lost...

It's a tongue in cheek joke from a Canadian comedy show. I guess you have to be Canadian to get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6LehaqPlAI&feature=youtube_gdata_player Hahahaha, so true ;)

My grilled cheese: -sourdough bread - sharp cheddar - mozzerella - mild cheddar - garlic salt - shredded parmesean - butter Butter the bread and sprinkle parmesean cheese and garlic salt on the buttered sides. Cut the rest of the cheese fairly thin (not so thin you can see through it, you...

Awesome, thanks for getting this thread back on topic with the sandwich recipe.

I clicked on this thread thinking there was a new type of cross bred hop, and now I can't stop thinking about how hungry I am for a good sandwich and trying to get a visual of ear sodomy out of my head... My tummy says yes, and my imagination wishes it could turn back time.

The two guys that did it are the hosts of a talk show and did it as a joke for their show. Pretty good production value for a joke!

I would be more concerned with off flavours pitching two types of yeast. That can work well, but sometimes ends up with an undesirable finish. Again, I wouldn't be too worried unless you have every other variable covered. Do you have awesome temp control? Perfect mash temp control? A great malt...

Pow Pow Pow Pow Pow Pow Pow! My new brewing music ;)

I would just pitch the smack pack. I used just one for all my 5g brews for a long time and my beer turned out fine. Pitching the proper amount of yeast does affect the flavour, but so do 100 other variables. Having one or two variables off (within reason) won't ruin a beer. Under pitching will...

Thanks for all the tips. I looked up garden forests, and I think that's a great idea! Combined with a small row garden, you'd have a ton of produce with very little work!

Earth man cave, awesome! Didn't think of that! Or even a cheap root celar to store garden preserves... I'll have to look into it more!

Awesome, thanks for the replies! I was busy this week (wife just had a kid) and jumped on for the first time in a bit. I'm still going to be commuting into the city, so we won't be completely self sufficient, and while I like the idea of an earth home, my wife would definitely shoot it down...

My wife and I are looking at moving out of our small city into the country. We'd be building our own house (I'm in construction so no issue), and want to start raising our own chickens/cow/pigs and have a greenhouse to grow year round. Our goal is to be quasi self sufficient. Anybody else...

Did you run all the neutrals back to the breaker? If not, the breaker will trip right away. If your tripping right away while trying to use 120V, I'd guess you one or more neutrals not going back through the breaker...

Here here. I'm in here to laugh, not learn beer history and customs. Then again I'm not contributing funny either...

I'm so jealous. I'm on a major fishless streak this year. I'm 0 for 5 on my trips. Then again with all the flooding where I am (southern alberta, Canada) most of the trout streams and rivers are washed out still.