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  1. J

    Brewing Kombucha From Old Cultures

    I just dropped a scoby into a one gallon batch today. It was in a zip lock in my fridge for about 3 1/2 months. It looked great coming out of the bag. I will post the results in about ten days when I go to bottle it up!
  2. J

    Anyone Growing a Scoby from GT's Please read!

    So I started on 2-19 and today 3-15 I have a SCOBY ready to go. Probably going to start a gallon tonight. So under a month and I grew a mother from a bottle of GTs. Recipe and procedure is in an above post:)
  3. J

    How did you find us?

    Started looking for answers to all my homebrew questions when I got started and every search would lead me to these forums where I would always find the answers I needed!!! Now I'm hooked...
  4. J

    Mr. Beer Frankensteine?

    Buddy of mine just gave me an old Mr. Beer kit that he's had stashes since 06. Three small cans of pre hopped lme that will do 20 12oz bottles per can and three one pound bags of Dextrose. The Dextrose is a solid mass but kinda breaks up when you mang it on a table. So I have two questions. 1...
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    Anyone Growing a Scoby from GT's Please read!

    I am new to Kombucha and wanted to brew my own. I used 2 cups spring water 1/3 cup white sugar 3 green tea bags 1 bottle GT Botanical no. 9 Kombucha Boiled the water and sugar for 5 min added tea bags And steeped 10 min. Coed and added Kombucha and sweet tea to a sanitized 1 gal jar, swirled...
  6. J

    Ruthless Rye

    Only picked up one in my sierra Nevada 6 pack sampler and I'm wishing I had grabbed more! Nice smoothe IPA with a great mouthfeel. Worth the $11.40 I will hav to pay for a 6 pack...
  7. J

    What are YOU reading?

    "Crossroads of Twilight" from the Wheel of Time series, and just read through "The Hunger Games" Series. Looking forward to starting the "Greggor the Overlander" series.
  8. J

    Mead carbonation

    I use this page to calculate carbonation http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator/ it is for beer but I'm sure if you figure out the level of carbonation you want it should be useful. If you're going to carbonate use bottles and crown caps, swing tops or champagne bottles with...
  9. J

    Dry hopping mead

    Awesome, thank you!
  10. J

    Dry hopping mead

    I have a 5 gal batch of sweet mead going that I want to dry hop. I have looked around and can't find much info on the subject. I am curious if anyone could offer some insight. I am wondering how much of what type of hops and how long to let it sit on the hops. It is still in primary bubbling...
  11. J

    Brewtarget 1.2.3 - Free Open Source Brewing Software

    Awesome program! Thank you kindly:)
  12. J

    Issues posting a recipe

    Even cooler is the fact that I can post new threads here with no issues. Must just be the recipe database. Anyone else have issues posting from a phone or have an idea of what I'm doing wrong?
  13. J

    Issues posting a recipe

    Keep getting this message when I try to post a recipe. I am using an iPhone and can't find a drop down bar next to the subject field. Any suggestions?
  14. J

    How many gallons of Homebrew in 2012?

    2,977+5 gal Yerba mate amber ale=2,982
  15. J

    Show us your Mead in a photo!!!

    First mead ever. A batch of JAOM that I started a few months ago and decided to dip into. Bit heavy on the coriander, fortunately it was only a 1/2gal batch.
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