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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Preparing for the switich to all grain

« on: January 08, 2010, 05:31:10 PM »

Also, for a pot for 10 gal batches, get, at minimum, a 15 gal pot.  And, if you don't already have one, you're gonna need some sort of chiller to cool it down after the boil.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Yeast Culturing

« on: January 08, 2010, 12:52:47 PM »

Anything else I should be aware of?

30g of agar powder will last a good while but, once you do use that up, if you have a local Asian food store, you can usually get 25g of agar powder for about a buck twenty-five.

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Pimp My System / Re: The Scales of Justice Brew System – by Rick Treusch

« on: January 07, 2010, 10:05:20 AM »

I'd like to see a video

Yeah, especially of the trebuchet action

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Efficiency of Batch v. Fly as it Relates to Mash Tun Design

« on: January 06, 2010, 07:12:59 PM »

Wouldn't I get the same channeling no matter which way I sparged? 

You might get the same channeling but with batch it doesn't really matter.  When you fly sparge, if all of your sparge water is "channeling", then it never actually rinses the sugars out of that portion of the grist that it doesn't touch.  With batch, since you're going to drain all of the water, you'll drain (and rinse) the water from the non-channeled areas of the grist too.

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The Pub / Re: Going Green?

« on: January 06, 2010, 02:43:03 PM »

Sounds like your PC could do with a lot less caffeine

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: what are your goals for 2 ought 10

« on: January 06, 2010, 02:39:17 PM »

Only up to the 100 gallon limit, of course.

Begs the question, is it worth getting hitched to bump that limit up to 200 gallons

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Questions about the forum? / Re: Where are you from?

« on: January 06, 2010, 02:37:30 PM »

Me too

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All Grain Brewing / Re: First stuck mash: batch sparge

« on: January 06, 2010, 02:23:44 PM »

I'd probably look more toward the other process that you said you changed.  That is, adding the water to the grain instead of the grain to the water.  Maybe that created some sort of nasty doughball mess that gummed up your braid.

edit:  hmm, on second glance, you say you transferred some of the mash to another cooler and it still stuck so, maybe never mind.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Zymergy magazine?

« on: January 06, 2010, 12:48:00 PM »

each month?

Also, it doesn't come out each month, more like every other

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: what are your goals for 2 ought 10

« on: January 05, 2010, 11:11:49 AM »

Prefect water chemistry and start playing with yeast culturing and yeast management.

Mine's the opposite.  Figured out the yeast culturing and management stuff in '09, now starting in on water chemistry for '10

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The Pub / Re: Going Green?

« on: January 04, 2010, 01:03:37 PM »

OTOH, maybe they didn't go up as much as they would have otherwise.

Plus, regardless of whether they go up or down or not, you're still doing better for the environment.  Everything doesn't have to be about "what's in it for me".

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The Pub / Re: Going Green?

« on: January 04, 2010, 10:19:20 AM »

Check this out.  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.af09375837a21e6bf486e0c8aed43c9a.01&show_article=1

Sounds like a great idea to me.  I walk two miles each way back and forth to work every day and those stupid plastic bags are everywhere.  We're about 40 miles from DC and I wish they'd do it here too.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: How much did you brew in 2009?

« on: January 01, 2010, 08:23:16 PM »

Now what'd ya make me go and do that for?  Went ahead and checked my logs and turns out I brewed an unlucky 13 times in 2009 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: questions

« on: January 01, 2010, 07:33:40 PM »

That kit looks like it should give you a pretty good start.  Assuming you have the basics like sanitation and process down pat, probably the most important thing to work on as a next step is fermentation temperature control.  Like someone (can't remember who) always says, "boiling, hopping, etc is just putting together the ingredients but fermentation is what actually makes the beer".  Or something like that anyways.  Most folks starting out allow the temps during fermentation to get too high so working on doing something about it would be the best bang for the buck.

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Equipment and Software / Re: Light bulb in fridge to control temp.

« on: December 31, 2009, 09:50:42 AM »

Why does this come up as "HOMEBREWTALK.COM NO HOTLINKING" ?

Kai

Kai, a lot of web sites don't allow "hotlinking".  Hotlinking means a link that points directly at (usually) a picture.  They don't want people to do that because they'd rather that you go to the actual site (not just the picture).  That way you have to look at their site and any ads and such that might go along with that.