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just racked off of strawberries and good god did my fermenting room (the closet) smelled like HEAVEN

best of luck and ill be watching for more!

Brewing this right now. Got about 10 min left in the mash. All grain version exactly as BM posted.

Mine too, whats up with that?! not only free beer, but excellent free beer.

Ah dang, here I thought I was being all original

Pale ale label I made that is going on some of the bottles at my wedding in July. Ive been brewing like crazy to make sure we have enough, but havent gotten around to make any labels but this one.

So I joined back in November I think. I must have overlooked the intro section. So here I am:ban: I started with doing a hard cider, which failed miserably. along with the following two cider recipes. So I gave up on hard cider and was looking into real brewing. Got myself a turkey fryer and...

yes, the legs of the burner are bolted through the wooden stand

Added some heat shields where I felt needed, and made a holder for all my spoons, filter, lighter, refractometer and below a spot for my star san bucket. oh and my nifty paper towel holder. The shields are drip pans for an oven, a 2pack at walmart is .97 cents, and they're easy to work bend...

My dad made these for christmas. I got one, my uncle got one and my dad made one for himself. It was made with hard maple from my brothers crib he had as a baby, who is now 15.

Although its by far not the best option nor the most pleasing on the eyes. Walmart has cookie sheets for .92 cents that I use to shield my Mash tun from the burner of my HLT. Down the road I plan to get some good looking aluminum to do it, but money is tight for projects right now. the second...

Just picked up some castors so it can roll, and another shop light to hang from the ceiling (one just isn't bright enough) and all the parts to do a homemade sight glass for my HLT. will post pics when i'm done

Just finished her up this afternoon

We live in brand new construction housing on an air force base. I'd like to think its up to code... but then again. There is also 7' from the top of the burner to the ceiling. I went with a fairly low profile design so once it gets nice out I can wheel this around back and brew on our covered...