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All Things Food / Re: Pizza Fatta en Casa

« on: January 24, 2010, 10:04:03 am »

Well I am a machine, so I guess even though both pies were homemade you can still call them that ha ha.  I'm calling on my old skills from summers past working at the pizzeria

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All Things Food / Re: Pizza Fatta en Casa

« on: January 24, 2010, 09:33:44 am »

Can't believe no one has posted any breakfast pies yet!   Made this one this morning- sausage and bacon.   Just gotta be sure to make a good ridge around the edge of the dough so the eggs don't spill everywhere.  Then be careful putting it in the oven!   Dribbling the egg onto a 500º stone might make a bit of a smokey mess! 

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All Things Food / Re: Pizza Fatta en Casa

« on: January 23, 2010, 08:29:14 am »

Pie turned out awesome!   Finally got to use my new screen and peel.   Helps to have the right tools! 

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All Things Food / Re: Pizza Fatta en Casa

« on: January 11, 2010, 01:28:50 pm »

Yeah it'll be replaced no charge just gonna take a little bit of time which sucks.   My new peel and screen are sitting in the packages uselss until then...

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All Things Food / Re: Pizza Fatta en Casa

« on: January 09, 2010, 09:40:11 am »

Finally got a pizza stone for christmas.  Made a couple pies Christmas weekend then I quickly ordered a peel and a screen.  Unfortunately on the 4th pie, the stone split in half!   Two days later my peel and screen were delivered.   Debating on trying a pie tomorrow and just putting the two pieces of the stone together in the oven and cooking it on that.   

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The Pub / Re: Hey Guitar Players...

« on: November 30, 2009, 05:59:04 pm »

another one of my Guilds-   Starfire II   

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The Pub / Re: Hey Guitar Players...

« on: November 29, 2009, 06:21:27 pm »

Now that is a peach!

thanks!   guild makes beautiful guitars.  I really want one of their 12 strings. 

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The Pub / Re: Brew Dawgs!

« on: November 29, 2009, 02:18:55 pm »

what about brew cats? 

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The Pub / Re: Hey Guitar Players...

« on: November 29, 2009, 02:11:04 pm »

One of my acoustics-   Guild F65CE   Plays and sounds like a dream-   maple body and neck, ebony fretboard, pearl inlays.    its pretty thin, only 2 1/2", really made to be plugged in.   

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Ever replace the SS braid in your mashtun?

« on: November 29, 2009, 11:03:27 am »

I readjusted mine (well, I shoved it further up onto the barb) and it got the stretch out of it.   My runoff was a lot faster today.  I didn't think it would retain its shape by simply pushing it back together, but it did.   

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Is it necessary to rack to a secondary fermenter?

« on: November 23, 2009, 04:09:00 pm »

I don't secondary very often, I usually use the keg as a secondary.   I do rack to a carboy to secondary for higher gravity beers that I'm going to age for awhile and beers that I dry hop

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Scotch Style Partigyle

« on: November 22, 2009, 05:07:52 pm »

1.142?  Oh snap!  What did you pitch for yeast into that bad boy?   I'm thinking about doing a strong scotch ale this fall...

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Commercial Beer Reviews / Re: Octoberfest beers

« on: November 22, 2009, 11:50:12 am »

I'd like to pass along my jealousy-  Sam Adams was the only Oktoberfest that o
could find this year.  (the beer selection around here sucks!).   Last year I found beck's Oktoberfest (which I enjoyed).   Luckily my own turned out awesome.  Too bad I only made 5 gallons

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All Grain Brewing / Re: General mash tun advice

« on: November 22, 2009, 11:20:07 am »

One of the advantages of the Coleman Extreme (70 qt., anyway) is that it has a trough/groove slightly lower than the bottom level that allows maximum drainage.  The 70 qt. is also large enough to do reasonably big 10 gallon batches.

+1 to the 70qt coleman!   gotta love the channel for the drain.   Plus it can do 10 gallon batches.   When I went all grain, I bought a small cooler (5 gallon I think?) did 3 or 4 batches then bought the 70 qt so I could do 10 gallons.   Should have done it in the first place....

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Ever replace the SS braid in your mashtun?

« on: November 22, 2009, 08:54:21 am »

Palmer talks about manifold configurations in his book as it relates to the flow through the grain bed.

The manifold configuration is only really important for fly sparging.  Assuming the OP is following Denny's Cheap'n'easy methods, he would be batch sparging and 6 to 8 inches of braid is perfectly fine.

yeah I'm batch sparging.   I believe I saw a post somewhere by Denny saying that'd he experimented with longer braids and didn't notice a difference.