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For around $30 and a trip to Home Depot you can get an "under the counter" style carbon filter system that will remove chlorine and chloramines from your tap water (remember to go really, really slow flow or you will defeat the purpose)...

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Harder waters accentuates hoppiness (think English Pale Ale). Softer waters accentuate maltiness (think Oktoberfest). In your case I would run your tap water through the RO process (since you have the system already) before making something like an Porter, Altbier or Bock. Or just run it through a c...

Looks like good brewing water to me. In the upper middle range so far as hardness goes. You can make almost any style with this water, but pale & hoppy beers will be better than the maltier styles without treatment.

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Jon - for a guy with a newborn in the house you sure do have a lot of time on your hands!!!!

Anxiously awaiting my sample...


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Just took my recertification test last month and passed (out) with flying colors!!


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I would be more than willing to be your Scotch Ale guinea pig. This will require many samples for evaluation of course...


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Bring some to the Brue Day at the Bruery and you will get all the feedback you want and probably some you dont!!

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Great time last night! There was a really good turn out. A shout out to Pat and Rachel for allowing us to gather and enjoy the fantasitc offerings at the Bruery. Good to see some of the "old skool" guys that have been AWOL lately (you know who you are) and a lot of new faces too. Kudos to ...

The Style Focus will be on Beers of Ireland in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The commercial examples acquired so far are from Beamish, Guinness, Murphy's and Smithwicks.



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Two weeks or you will need to start it up first. Yeah I know some guys are going to chime in and say they have used two month old slurry with good results, but don't take me there. There is no reason to ruin a perfectly good wort with bad yeast...

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Lyn, There is no doubt that PBW is a great cleaner in the brewhouse. A lot of guys are touting OxiClean as an equal, but I wound not rush to get on that bandwagon (go read what JonGoku just did to a couple cases of new bottles with OxiClean). So, since you have been forced to quit the hobby, I would...

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This is a fairly common practice and can make good beer. Just remember that starting with a gigantic yeast population means that your yeast will not have to work as hard building up a sufficient population to consume the sugars in your wort. Less propagation generally means less flavor compounds so ...

I think Carbon needs access granted to the club only section of the site...

Brewday tomorrow is behind the orange curtain somewhere in NW Fullerton featuring Lars with his homespun Brutus and some killer smoked pork!




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Harvest the yeast and use it again is another option.


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