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What is a good homebrew mill?

How are you gauging it's ready? Do you own a Zahm? I have a bitter in the primary that would be nice to drink this weekend but I don't want to bottle it too early. Gravity readings will tell though.

Thanks for all the pointers guys. See ya at a meeting and if not I'll post for an informal meet and greet for all us straglers sometime.

Well,. the beauty of mistakes is that they can turn out to be happy ones. What happened is that I was somewhat distracted by a beautiful brewing assistant (note to self, work alone) who I was having a great time with and I shorted my ingredient list. Later that afternoon (apparently...

I'm in Wallingford. Every Sunday is a brew day with bbq at my home. All are welcome. I almost messed up last Sunday's batch, but more on that later... There is another brewer just down the alley from me,.. he's doing a 20gal all grain today. I gotta get off the computer and check that...

Thanks guys,.. I messed up on picking up supplies yesterday at Bob's and didn't realize it till I opened my one can of extract. I needed two and it was past closing. I'll stop by Market or Larry's. Nice google map.

Ooops sorry for the long wait on responses. Now that I'm a paying member I'm all over this forum like yeast on malt. Yea, Bob's Homebrew. He rocks. I felt like a doushbag for calling him Jim the other day but it was a simple mistake: The brewing gear and documentation/beer log sheets I...

I had the opposite problem and thought over 24hrs would be a bit much for prep smacking... All is well though. I've thought about experimenting with double yeast strains. Any threads on that here?

Define normal. Racking sugar added, then bottle? I'm in the same boat with a Scotch Ale 7 days into secondary. A little extra sugar won't bother me though, I like em sweet and malty.

Got my first batch going yesterday: Scotch Ale with extra smoke and hopefully a successful dryhopping of oak chips soaked in Scotch. Shout outs to all the local breweries and brew techs who have helped me. Looking forward to participating here more and lurking less. Do we have to be...