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Update. Bottles on their way down to 0 degrees now. Hopefully its worth the wait, cause its been hogging my fridge for weeks. 1. Schooey - Bitch Slap IIPA, OG 1.072 ( tongue.gif Les!) WLP051 2. Loftboy - 'Call me Amber' (American Amber Ale. OG 1.050, US-05) 3. Les the Weizguy - Weizenbock (by...

Spelling Police Eh, I think you'll find my larger is different from all those smaller lagers getting around

Count me in. Gotta do a larger while its still cold. I'll just have to scrounge a few extra long necks (re drink), I gave most of them away. 1. Schooey - Some kind of big IIPA, WLP051 2. Loftboy - TBA, but probably an amber ale or strong ale 3. Les the Weizguy - Weizenbock (by request), O.G...

After a suggestion I tried a new method for chilling. It seems quick and easy and i wondered does anyone else do it?, is there something wrong with it that i don't know about? Essentially I filtered some water (mine tastes better that way), filled up 2x3 litre juice containers, froze them...

I found its best to wait about a few days until the serious airlock bubbling has died down, then open the fermenter and chuck in, the bonus at this stage is that your little yeasties have already got the upper hand on the other critters, there is some alcohol there to do some minor sterilization...

If things get desperate you can just put them straight in the freezer (in snap lock bags). I know it's not ideal but it works well enough if you use them all up in a few months. This was after I had a bumper first crop and being a first crop told not to expect much, so i didn't really have any...

Is that a PHP flame? meh I was going for simple, what did you use? I found the only time where it starts hunting was when the ambient temperature would swing above and below the desired temp on the same day, this coud be overcome by setting the heating or cooling set points a little higher than...

Probably, I originally tried Ubuntu because it to had a cut down internet installation, but for some reason ubuntu didn't like the low power via eden was using. Its all held together with common scripting languages and cron so any distro your comfortable with

Yes its not really going to save you money and there is a fair amount of expertise involved to make it work, so yeah i'm not trying to sell it to anyone nor encourage anyone, but If you were thinking about it, it may give you a few hints about what can work. The reason I made it was as a bit of...

For those interested in getting an old computer to do something useful on the cheap, I have put together some equipment that can control the temperature of my very old beer fridge. It's all been working happily for the last 6 months now. All the code and equipment used and a pretty graph of...

I broke up some small pieces of a styrian goldings plug that i needed to get rid of, which i forgot to put in the fermeter. that one plug was more than enough for each bottle. I thought that i'd be picking the leaves out of my teeth for months. Anyway it turns out that the petals sit at the lip...