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Jimmy is a pretty fun guy. He's been making motors for quite some time. I've been making these for about 6 years myself. His method for KNSU motors is about the safest i've seen. If you are still interesting in sugar motors check out the SUGPRO mailing list and the www.sugarshot.org we...

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Sounds good Adam. Been making several different ciders myself lately. Finally starting to cool down in my area and when its so hot I don't want to deal with a 6+ hour all grain brew session, I make a quick cider. 6 different batches going now with different yeast strains to see some...

It usually takes about 10 minutes to cool 12gallons of wort depending on time of year and groundwater temp. It gets really hot in the summer but luckily quite cold in the winter so the mainline brewing season is kicking in. I like to be able to cool the wort quickly for sanitary reasons and...

That is a good idea on the stand. Here is what I did with mine, basically a square that fits the keg with legs. Burners Scratches would not be a problem because of the boil obviously but they are much easier to clean w/o scratches. I would not use a pot w/o a spigot anymore. Working...

It's better to do a full wort boil not only for better hop utilization but to prevent unintended wort carmelization. Especially on a lighter SRM brew such as this Hefe. The other poster is right it will be a bit higher IBU than normal for a Hefe but still sounds pretty tasty to me. Don't know...

It's funny as hell. It's been around for awhile. A few years at least as far as I know. Great references all through the song.

For hops I usually go with Hopsunion or another direct supplier I can't remember their name right now. The good thing is if you only order a few pounds of hops they tend to double what they actually send you. Last order I placed I ordered 3# of Cascade and 4# of Fuggles(my favoritist hop in...

I relied on this method for quite awhile till I picked another dedicated fermenting fridge. It works particularly well if you live in a dry climate like I do. I could keep it around 65-68 fairly consistently in my bathtub. If you need to drop it a few more degrees you can keep several plastic...

It came out great. Like clearing for not using a secondary. Pretty much identical to using 1056. I actually pulled a pint of this same recipe using the 1056 to compare with this and they were just about the same to me. The older had a little reduction in hop aroma due to being about 3 months...

Just wanted to post an update on a new yeast i've started using. Austin hombrew finally got some of the US-56 in. I'm loving it. Tired of dealing with my yeast ranch all the time and having to step up from plates. I used 1056 quite a bit and this is a pretty close approximation of it in dry...

Gave mine a shot this year but the Texas sun was just a bit too much for the Cascade and Northern brewer. They got a little toasty around the first of July. I have a friend who grew some Hersbrucker and just harvested most of his. Got around 5 lbs from a 3rd year plant, so i'll see what I...

Blind Fury

1 side by side in the kitchen 1 chest freezer in the house for food Garage/Brewery 1 combo for 2kegs and hops storage in the freezer 1 Old school fridgidare w/3 taps 1 Old school fridgidare chest freezer w/wood collar and 8 taps

Dug777 you may have better luck with priming you bottles using a syrup method. Instead of measuring out a specific amount for each bottle, take 4oz of corn sugar boil it with 1 1/2-2 cups water for about 5 min let it cool and put it in your bottling bucket as you siphon the beer into it before...