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The Pub / Re: A Free Kindle Book
« on: May 14, 2013, 07:13:30 am »
Sweet. I like free, and beer, and free beer.
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Homebrew Clubs / Re: Problem with club growth in VA
« on: May 13, 2013, 12:33:46 pm »
Maybe you could find a restaurant without a liquor license to host. I'm assuming that the problem is with bringing unlicensed alcohol into a licensed place, so a place with no license might not need to worry. Granted, those locations might not be "cool" locations for a meeting and they probably aren't common anyway.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Requirement to clean/sanitize new tap
« on: May 13, 2013, 12:01:43 pm »
Running some star san through it would be fine.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Pin lock VS Ball Lock
« on: May 13, 2013, 09:00:01 am »
Even worse if you never get it to seal at all.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Bottling prep
« on: May 13, 2013, 08:58:47 am »
If I were looking to buy a bottle tree, I'd probably get this instead. I have a red bottle tree and it takes up space and only holds 45 bottles. An inconvenient number since a 5 gallon batch is ~52 12oz bottles.
http://thefastrack.ca/homebrew/
Otherwise, a spray with starsan will sanitize a clean hard surface, but spraying inside a bottle is hard. The submursible spray pumps are great for this. It's made to go on a bottle try, but I just put it in the sink.
http://morebeer.com/products/sanitizer-injector-red-bottle-tree.html
http://thefastrack.ca/homebrew/
Otherwise, a spray with starsan will sanitize a clean hard surface, but spraying inside a bottle is hard. The submursible spray pumps are great for this. It's made to go on a bottle try, but I just put it in the sink.
http://morebeer.com/products/sanitizer-injector-red-bottle-tree.html
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Handle on 20 LB CO2
« on: May 13, 2013, 08:39:13 am »
Regulators are pretty standard shapes and every tank needs one, so I can't imagine a tank would be sold that couldn't work with one.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Pin lock VS Ball Lock
« on: May 13, 2013, 08:37:06 am »
Hopefully the price of new ball locks will fall as people start to buy more. I've already seen them sold for ~$90 in multi-packs. Given the hastle of some used kegs, I'd pay a premium for new. I think if it dropped to $75 or so it would be great.
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The Pub / Re: Do you hate to be corrected?
« on: May 13, 2013, 08:32:59 am »I call anyone who disagrees with me a Nazi fascist totalitarian racist infidel and just leave it at that. When it comes to religion and politics there's really no point in arguing.
I'll have to try that
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The Pub / Re: A bomber is rarely a good deal
« on: May 13, 2013, 04:58:47 am »
I don't even know what the argument is about anymore, but that's fine. I paid for 10 minutes.
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The Pub / Re: Re: Do you hate to be corrected?
« on: May 12, 2013, 12:23:44 pm »So if you say "I'm making a Belgium Ale" I may correct you and tease you a little but if I uase ait makes in all ok.
You misspelled "use"
I've gotten myself in trouble for correcting people, but it's never happened on Facebook. I don't have much sympathy though. You want to post dumb stuff without commentary? Buy a diary.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Pin lock VS Ball Lock
« on: May 10, 2013, 09:02:17 pm »
The deal is Coke is still getting rid of pin locks, so they are more available. Quality doesn't matter, when is the last time you saw a homebrewer selling their ball lock kegs?
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: SN/DFH IPA Glasses
« on: May 10, 2013, 08:58:36 pm »
I find the base too narrow, too unstable for operating under the influence.
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The Pub / Re: Re: A bomber is rarely a good deal
« on: May 10, 2013, 08:56:58 pm »Show me a brewery selling 12ouncers for a better deal than bombers, then you have an article.
Uhhh ... Just about every brewery is selling 12 oz at a better deal than 22 oz. I think you got that backwards.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Extending the life of chest freezers question
« on: May 10, 2013, 05:52:21 am »Oh, gotcha. I thought you just sheathed the collar in plywood.Freezers apparently dissipate heat through the outside walls. The plywood holds heat in.My chest freezer is now 9 years old, it runs in my garage which routinely hit 110F in the summer and low 20's in the winter. I didn't insulate the collar, and I even sheathed it in oak plywood, something I since learned is very bad. I keep my temp probe in a sealed, dry, empty water bottle.Why is that bad?
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Equipment and Software / Re: PBW
« on: May 10, 2013, 05:48:29 am »
FWIW, I've always used dish soap and a carboy brush. So its not necessary, but scrubbing is more work.