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TL;DR-Trying to put 10 lbs of poo in a 5 lb bag doesn’t end well. I brought a recipe kit for an American Wheat Ale to the city house so I could get a brew day in while we were here babysitting grandkids for a few days. I’ve been brewing here for the last 5 years using a turkey fryer to do 2.5...

I posted this last year, but it still seems appropriate. Merry Christmas, Happy Haunnukah, Happy Kwanzaa and, for the rest of us, Happy Festivus!

It’s pie baking day a our house. Actually, the first of several over the next couple of weeks. Today it’s apple pies for the annual turkey dinner that my wife’s church holds every year. Some to serve at the dinner and some to sell at the bazaar which is held along with the meal. My wife is an...

After 2 1/2 years of dodging the bullet my wife and I appear to be infected. I say “appear” because we’re at the farm and can’t just pop into the walk in clinic and get tested. My wife started showing symptoms on Saturday. She spent most of the week sleeping and feels pretty good now. We spent...

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If anyone within a hundred miles or so of the Canadian border and west of, maybe, western MN is interested the aurora is pretty bright right now.

Does anyone, besides those who enter, and those who judge, competitions, really care about the color of beer? The reason I ask is because I picked up a sample pack from Big Sky Brewing today, a brewery which I really like (they only make one beer with “hazy” in the description and nothing called...

Are we seeing the beginning of 2021 being the year of the Class of ‘33? Sort of like the “Class of 27”-famous people who died at the age of 27 (Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, etc.). In less than a week, we’ve lost Hank Aaron, Larry King, and singer Jimmie...

TL;DR-Does Beersmith actually calculate the recommended water adjustments based on my actual water profile or just use default water adjustments for a given beer style? I brew, mostly, with the well water at our farm. We had the water tested about 40 years ago when the well was drilled but that...

Our part of the world was expected to receive 12-18“ of snow over the weekend. We didn’t miss that by much, if any. I started moving snow about 9:30 this morning and finished about half an hour ago. Sorry for the blue tint. I think the slight tint in the tractor windows may be the cause.

Probably one of the best songwriters most people never heard of. “I been to Georgia on a fast train, honey I wudn’t born no yesterday Got a good Christian raisin’ An’ an 8th grade education Ain’t no need in y’all treatin’ me this way”

Anybody watch the end of game 4? I don’t know how many thousand baseball games I’ve watched in the last 60+ years, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen the kind of cluster fruck that ended that game.

Some of you know that I’m a grain farmer. We’re harvesting spring wheat right now. Here’s a few photos of the day’s activities. My son and oldest grandson are in the combines; I’m the truck driver.

I’ve cut my own hair for about 25 years. I’m not fussy about my hair; it’s just one more little detail to deal with. I’ve used a clipper with interchangeable combs which determine how much gets trimmed with each pass. I use one that leaves 3/4” and just sort of drive that all over my head until...

Bob and Doug are back on Earth after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. It would be cool AF if, the first thing upon opening the door, the recovery crew would hand them each a Molson Red Cap. This has been a test. Only those over a certain age will pass. :cool:

5.5 gal of 1.060 beer in a 6 gal Better Bottle with Nottingham after 48 hours. A 5 gal blowoff container should be sufficient, right?

Well, every scar deserves a story. That’s mine and I’m stickin’ to it. As usual, the real story isn’t too exciting, but it’s why I’ve been AWOL for a few days. TL;DR I got sick from some toxic grain dust, had a drug interaction issue, blacked out when my BP dropped and face planted on a hard...

Folks have been quick to choose their most hated songs. So, what do y’all like? Favorite style/band/performer. Go.

I posted this in response to some comments in the Homebrewing Deals subforum. It occurred to me that it might be of some interest to a broader audience. It appears that the link in the post this thread links to is no good. A Google search for “malting barley varieties” will include an article...