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The Pub / Re: http://tinychat.com/roffenburger
« on: March 25, 2013, 07:44:18 PM »
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: No brained brewing rules
« on: March 25, 2013, 07:33:24 PM »
Drink every beer you can, brew often, learn from every batch, there are no rules.
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All Things Food / Re: DIY Bacon
« on: March 22, 2013, 03:26:21 PM »
I just started my first batch of bacon-3.2 pounds of some nice looking pork belly using Rulhman's recipe. It's a good thing I'll be on the road all week, I won't be able to mess with it.
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Ingredients / Re: What's the strangest ingredient you've ever used?
« on: March 18, 2013, 02:34:03 PM »I only experienced the stupor, hallucinations and partial paralysis after making a cup of tea on a camping tripWhen I was a kid living in central Kentucky, maybe 1965 or so, I pulled up a huge sassafras root by the side of the road. A couple years ago, almost 50 years later, I put some of this, which is pretty much petrified at his point, into a club project beer. It is cool that the aroma still comes through.
You might not want to drink that. Google "toxicity of sassafras"
http://www.drugs.com/npp/sassafras.html
Of course it's too late now, but I knew of the counter-indications. There was no vomiting, stupor, lowering of body temperature, exhaustion, tachycardia, spasm, hallucinations, paralysis and collapse.
. A friend who makes root beer gave me a bottle of extract to try in a pale ale but I can't make myself do it.
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Equipment and Software / Re: Brix Hydrometer
« on: March 18, 2013, 01:20:47 PM »
Diane gave me this hydrometer several years ago but I haven't used it. But we've remodeled our kitchen so all our stuff from the living room and kitchen have been stacked in the garage and I can't get to my my regular hydrometer and can't find my refractometer so I pulled this one out. The problem I have with it is that it's very big and requires twice as much sample to fill the tube. The advantage is that I have twice as much hydrometer sample to drink, and it is more precise since the scale only covers the FG range. I've never used my refractometer for FG readings, it's not accurate without math and there's no sample to taste, and the sample tells me much more than the numbers alone will ever tell.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Whatcha all drinkin on St Pat's day?
« on: March 17, 2013, 09:47:29 PM »
Homebrewed porter, rye stout, cherry brett. Store boughts-Mariage Parfait, Saison Dupont, others whosenames I don't recall. My wife somehow invited people over for a party so I participated.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Whatcha all drinkin on St Pat's day?
« on: March 17, 2013, 06:41:37 AM »
Probably water most of the day, I have to miter a bunch of trim for the kitchen and living room. My wife's a nurse and doesn't think I should drink and operate the miter saw at the same time. But, once I finish I still have half a keg of my rye stout that is pretty damn good.
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Equipment and Software / Re: Brix Hydrometer
« on: March 15, 2013, 04:02:42 PM »
Thanks Denny. I need to work on my estimating skills, I missed it by 1/1000. So I'm guessing my Amarillo Rye IPA is done-5 days from 1.070 to 1.011 with Nottingham yeast at 62F internal temp.
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Equipment and Software / Brix Hydrometer
« on: March 15, 2013, 03:54:38 PM »
A couple of years ago a pro brewer gave me a brix FG hydrometer that has sat on a shelf until yesterday. I didn't even it read in brix until I read the scale and it said 2.8. I'm guessing that is around 1.011 specific gravity, am I correct?
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Hops are coming up
« on: March 13, 2013, 04:06:01 PM »Last year an employee was going to fix my sprinkler system so my hops would be watered while I was on vacation. He came over, saw my daughter watering plants and decided it didn't need to work if she was going to water them, but she only did it once and when I got back from a 3 week vacation in July they were pretty much toast. He will be here this weekend and I won't let him leave until it all works.My Cascades have started poking out of the ground. It's kind of late for us down here, and I was worried they wouldn't even come back at all because of their poor health last year. 3 years of sever drought has taken it's toll, I even have cacti dying. But they are back and looking good.
I keep hearing folks talk about how their plants aren't doing well due to the drought... don't you folks have plumbing and hoses?!
The other issue I have is that our water really sucks-our tap water is very hard and seeds won't even germinate if I use water. And being in our third year of a drought here in the desert, water use for plants is discouraged. I have a water well, but when farmers nearby open their wells my well goes dry pretty fast.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Hops are coming up
« on: March 12, 2013, 08:22:10 PM »Maybe once all the snow melts I'll be able to tell if they're sprouting yet.All our snow melted over a month ago, the day after it fell.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Hops are coming up
« on: March 12, 2013, 10:34:35 AM »
My Cascades have started poking out of the ground. It's kind of late for us down here, and I was worried they wouldn't even come back at all because of their poor health last year. 3 years of sever drought has taken it's toll, I even have cacti dying. But they are back and looking good.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Took a Yeasty Shower
« on: March 11, 2013, 08:12:44 AM »
My wife once tried to help me fill bottles with a counter pressure filler. We had more beer on the walls and ceiling than in bottles, so she bought me a Beergun. That was a very wise investment.
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The Pub / Re: BB King tonight
« on: March 11, 2013, 08:10:38 AM »
We saw him about 4 years ago in Ruidoso NM, it was an excellent show.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 3/2 Edition
« on: March 07, 2013, 02:34:39 PM »
This will be my first weekend to brew in 4 months. Tomorrow I'll do an all Cascade Rye IPA, Sunday my brewing student and I will do a couple of wheat beers.