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Interesting alternative. If you are very serious I have a hopyard started going into its 3rd year. We grow Cascade, Chinook, Willamette, and Nugget. Let me know more.

I say fans unite and Boycott the NHL once things are settled!!! Both sides are there for OUR entertainment but the Greedy Bastards are arguing over how to divide the money WE pay THEM!!! Let them reach a "deal" then take 1 year and purchase zero tickets!!! I'm sure the other major sports...

I think you need to go to the next level and build a reflux column as the keg would be a super boiler...

If I'm trying for something specific I pretty much stay the course, BUT every March I throw together the Mother Hubbord's Cupboard. It's a brew with any and all leftover grains and malt extracts and hops and other misc that I have from the previous year. Usually it's not bad. A nice spring...

I did my first Graff and went with Windsor yeast... Seemed to do a nice job. I just transfered to a secondary and will probably keg it up Monday.

This sounds like a perfect project for right after the first of the year. I think I'll try it and call it Cabin Fever Reliever!!! Only thing I'll do differently is toast the coconut and probably cut back a bit on the Pineapple and maybe add some lime zest and juice.

TO paraphrase the Late James Brown, " Bobby what you gonna brew now? I don't know, BUT whatever I brew it's got to be FUNKY!!!"

Congaree Bob's Alewerks... Lager than life, For what Ales ya!!!

I kind of figured. But thanks for the confirmation Thor. Happy Brewing!

I've got a homebrew comp that needs the entries in 3 weeks. If I put it up on Sunday 10/21, can I enter a simple Graff in the competition? Recipe is very basic... 3 gallons cider, 4 lbs DME (amber), 1 oz Cascade, 2 gallons H2O, and Windsor yeast. What do you folks think? DoAble?

I've been homebrwing for about 15 years and finally came into putting up a cider in early September. Just found a simple recipe for a Graff and was wondering if it was possible to pull this off in a 3 week period? Recipe calls for 3 gallons cider, 4 lbs DME, 1oz loose hops (have Cascade), and...

Could go with Swampwater Stout, Satan's Spunk, Necromancer's Nectar, Coalminer's Milk... Just to name a few

I say "If it feels good... DO IT!!" I personally dump my adjucts into a fine colendar and rinse them off into the primary prior to tranfering the wort. Never had a problem and it cools the spent grains off before they are fed to my goats. Just my 2cents...

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Is there a 1 to 1 substitution for DME and LME? For example if I was to use 6.6 lbs of LME would I use 6.6 of DME if I did not have the LME? Always wondered...