Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

well its not as much a secret handshake as an initiation ritual.

I have a cereal killer grain mill and wondered what you set you gap to for most grains or is there something to go by for wheats, barleys, etc. or do you set it at 0.XXX" and forget it? Run it through twice? Last two brews I had a stuck sparge in my cooler mash tun with SS toilet screen. I won...

YUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE,

Its got that brown streaked tightey whitey taste I have been after!

Bones wrote:I nabbed this yesterday for $10

Looks to still be on sale.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009G1S0QK/ref ... 1_ST1_dp_1

Nice, thanks for posting this, just picked it up today and it is still at $10.

A voice from the past! Where have you been CJ?? Thought, I mentioned before leaving that I was moving to Virginia? I have been around, I am always lurking on your forums, I check in on yawl every couple of days. Busy these days with the family, it ain't easy for an old man like me to take after the...

Matt F wrote:I am unavailable for pretty much all of July so I know I am out.

Liver transplant?

My thoughts would be with the lower cost of dry yeast you are better off buying the packages to reach the required cell count (probably a little more to account for cell death due to shock) and rehydrating them, then making a starter. You will certainly spend less time and less money. The reason I d...

Matt F wrote:That's cool, guessing Tim does not want Bud Light caps though.

Tim, did not specify branding of the caps in his post, in fact it would be a cool game to include just one budwiser cap in there for the find the bud game.

I just had an interesting thought - Has anyone ever smoked fresh hops (not like that, Dude!) I wonder if it would pick up a smoky flavor in the drying process. Do something like a cold smoking (120F) process with fruit woods - apple, peach, or cherry. Granted, the higher drying temperature would ca...

I agree, very cool

Wow, don't even remember that game, Potsy "how old are you???"

I used the same kit for the club Furious comp last year. Follow the directions for an awesome and really close clone. Just want to point out that they say it is not a clone kit, but the actual recipe used by Surly. Obviously it will end up a little different due to difference in brewing setup, but ...

From my understanding, fat (oils in general) inhibit head retension.

I forgot to mention he is extract brewing. Will that still have an affect on the beer? As an extract brewer, I would suggest he use distilled water or RO, reason being is the process that is used to make extracts starts with a real mash then is taken down to liquid or dry extract. So the extract it...

Tony from the looks of that thing you should probably head to the emergency room and have your arteries flushed with turpentine.