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I've been debating the purchase of a grain mill for a while now and have read up plenty on crushing and keep coming up with the same question: Why are so many homebrew stores not crushing grain as thoroughly as most homebrewers think to be adequate for good efficiency? There are countless...

Nothing quite like getting home from the LHBS, starring proudly at the 14 lbs of crushed 2-row that will make up the base of your christmas warmer (my biggest AG beer yet!), only to go in for a closer look and see that it's moving around a bit. You rub your eyes and squint in even closer...

If you've ever used a Haynes manual to work on your POS car, you'll get a real kick out of this page. Nearly had me in tears, I was laughing so hard. Brought back many highschool memories. And for you British Leyland sufferers: this.

First day of Autumn is about 8 weeks away. I'd really like to have an oktoberfest lager (likely styled as a marzen) ready by then and am planning on brewing tomorrow. I will have a lagering chamber at the ready and a big starter made up. Will it still be too green for fall consumption or should...

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/for/725098852.html Anybody have any experience with one of these? It appears to be a fermenter that is also pressurizable and can be used for serving. I'm sure there's so good reason you might want this. Perhaps as a "real ale" vessel so you can drink somewhat...

My fermentation chamber/cabinet is now about half complete so thought I'd post some progress pictures. My main inspiration was the one Thomcat333 built a while back. It's constucted of 2x2 and paneling and will be stuffed with 2" of rigid insulation (the pink stuff) and lined with melomine...

May be a bit of an obscure reference for the uninitiated, but some of my friends will get it. :p BTW, the misspelling is part of the joke.

If you like indie rock and modern rock and hell, just kickass music (even heard a great old Johnny Cash song earlier today), then you might want to check it out. Background: WOXY was a terrestrial FM station that I grew up with in Cincinnati. A few years back they went off the air but have...

InBev to buy out A-B?

Well, I'm four batches deep in all-grain brew now, but thought the best direction to move now is to doing Mr. Beer batches. J/K, I received this kit from a co-worker. He got it as a gift and despite much encouragement from myself, he had no interest in trying it out (and no, I'm not the one...

Now that I'm brewing all-grain, I've started a compost pile in the yard (as far from all houses as possible). This may sound silly, but is there anything special I need to do to ensure stuff breaks down effectively? Right now I basically have a pile with a split-open garbage bag secured over...

...but apparently not as much as the next girl. SWMBO's always been crazy for hefes and wits, but from following this forum, I know I'm not alone. I've never even met a girl who didn't like Blue Moon (take from that statement what you will:cross:). My question is: why do girls crave it...

I carved this tap handle from a very-old piece of quarter-sawn pine I found in the basement (beautiful grain). It's a relief of the top of a stalk of two-row barley. I mostly picked this subject because it was within my skill level (as opposed to trying to carve a relief of a hop cone or buxom...

Well, Christmas is over and we are the proud new owners of a KitchenAid stand mixer (artisan series, dark plum). I've read previously that the KA-brand grain mill attachment is not well suited for barley crushing, but a third party company (link here) appears to sell a flaker mill that uses...

After unsuccessfully attempting to lager a bock beer in for the range of 52 - 58F with the stock thermostat in the kegerator, I decided it was time to upgrade. I use Omega controllers all the time at work and found one for super cheap on ebay ($20 when they retail for $200+) that I knew would...

I've learned quite a bit about these things on this forum and having just made my first ever starter (for my first ever lager) and reading about the benefits of a stir plate (double the yield!?), I put together a very simple one yesterday and put it to work last night. I suppose the key to the...