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Partial mashed in a 2 gallon tun for 1 hr @ 155 degrees F: .5 lb carapils malt 2 lbs chocolate malt .5 lb flaked oats .5 lb honey malt 1 lb roasted barley malt 6.78 lbs of Golden Light DME 22 oz of Palm Sugar 1 lb of malto-dextrin @ 15 min 6 teaspoons of Yeastix nutrients @ 15 min R/O water used w/7...

6 lbs Pale LME 48 oz Palm sugar R/O water w/2 teaspoons of gypsum Steeped 2 lbs of Rye malt and 1 lb of crystal 15 for 60 mins. 1.6 oz Calypso Hops @ 60 min 1 oz of Calypso Hops @ 30 min Yeast nutrients and whirlfloc at 15 min Safale 04 rehydrated yeast. Transferred to secondary after about 12 days....

I may be a little late in jumping into this thread but I want to commend the monitors of Brewcommune for letting the thread survive and allowing one of its new members to voice his opinion, even in the face of a virtual mob lynching of Nick. I know Nick personally. At least I think I do. He vocalize...

Hey Brien!

Brien is the mead, wine, cider, and wood expert in my circle of friends. Good to see you here, pal.

I've been absent from this board for a bit and almost missed the notice about the meeting tomorrow. Luckily, Nick posted about it on his FB and I knew to come back and check in here. Out of the Park Pizza is a fine place where homebrewers meet regularly every Thursdays anyway. I was going to meet up...

Could it also be a macro brewery conspiracy? If homebrewing was in fact expanding in popularity, it's not far fetch to think they might view us as a threat like the many micro breweries and buy out the desired hops and now yeasts...

Let me check snopes.com and get back to you on this.

I took a short video of this amazing waterfall at Yellowstone. Be sure not to miss a surprise at the end of this video clip. Pay attention!
http://youtu.be/F1FK0ZmgtBE

Natural hot springs and geysers at Yellowstone.

Wow.

Nice. Did you grow them yourself?

I took a photo of a local beer in the area at this bus stop near Wyoming. Finally, at Yellowstone.

Tiki is seen here helping me clean the lemongrass from our garden. It would later be used during a mead brewday at Daniel's house.

Tommy is my right hand man at the Brewfooery. We are relaxing after a Sunday morning brewday with our mini parrot, Tiki. Tiki is a Green Cheek Conure or sometimes called a Pineapple Conure. These parrots are a good choice for their tameness and relative quietness compared to other conures. IMG_5350-...

In my quest to spread homebrewing knowledge even if it's mediocre at best, I helped Mike (far right in pic) brew his first exact at my house yesterday. Mike is a UC Berkeley graduate in microbiology and currently works in the lab at St. Jude Hospital in Fullerton. Homebrewing has validated his many ...

Mead is so freakin easy. Most people who try it fir the first time compare it to a sweet white wine and love it. If only they knew what I know now, they would make it themselves. Someone once told Rick, about the many ways people make mead nowadays. He was asked, "do you think the Vikings did i...

Hard to tell what the OG was with our hydrometer...Off the meter. IMG_5311.jpg My first 5 gallon carboy of mead is buckled in and ready to come home with daddy. IMG_5312-1.jpg I heated some water to about 160 F with some crushed kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass. 20 lbs of raw sage honey was added t...