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Engineer by degree, but I code for a living. Recently switched to using a tablet for leisure internet, like this site, but the on-screen keyboard is horrible, so please forgive my missing letters and things!

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Mar 14	comment	Where are MillerCoors Light Home Draft units available? The finder app is wrong (says they are in Charlotte, NC), but I know on my next trip though Jacksonville, I will be stopping to get some.
Mar 10	comment	Where are MillerCoors Light Home Draft units available? This worked for the first link:facebook.com/pages/Coors-Light-Home-Draft/…
Mar 10	comment	Where are MillerCoors Light Home Draft units available? Awesome. The second link tells me that they have them at some grocery stores around here! I can't believe it. I've been into 4 or 5 grocery stores and haven't seen them.
Mar 5	comment	Where are MillerCoors Light Home Draft units available? I travel, so anywhere in the US would be helpful to me. Also, the question may help inform a home brewer that wanted an alternative to bottling; it may not have been obvious walking past this item in the grocery store that it could be re-used for home brew.
Jan 13	comment	What is the minimum amount of time required for a yeast starter? You and mdma usually are in closer proximity than this. If 6 hours isn't worth it (I agree), how about 10 hours on a stir plate?
Jan 13	comment	New to Kegging - Help He probably unhooks it from the CO2 because sometime in the past he found an empty keg (and a huge mess) and/or an empty CO2 cylinder. Someone new to kegging needs to keep in mind that if something leaks, even slowly, you're in a world of hurt.
Nov 11	comment	3 Piece Airlock without Liquid What's not needed during active fermentation is the "bug cap" (the plastic cap with the tiny holes). If you happen to get krausen into your airlock and you have the bug cap on, that is when you may need to use the mop on the ceiling! Without the bug cap, that fate is less likely. Of course a blow off is recommended, but it's not quite as easy, and so not always done.
Nov 11	comment	How does bottling in a half bottle effect taste By the way, my leftovers can be large, since I bottle into 6 liter bottles.
Nov 11	comment	How does bottling in a half bottle effect taste I rack leftovers to a PET (plastic) soda bottle. I have fitted a tire filler stem to the cap. I squeeze the bottle so no air remains, then tighten the cap and use a bicycle tire CO2 filler to fill the headspace with CO2. It might sound complicated, but it's really simple and easy. Usually I don't use priming sugar in that one. Instead, I force carb it using the bike tire filler nd try it the next day!
Nov 11	comment	Can weighting dry hop bag with metal objects impact the flavor? Go to the dollar store and get the glass orbs that go in the bottom of a vase. You can also find them at a craft store. The ones I got at the dollar store came in a nylon net, so I just boiled the whole thing, then put it in the hop bag.
Nov 11	comment	How can I put minerals back into distilled or reverse osmosis water? The instructions on the epsom salts I got at the drug store include internal consumption as one use. The question is about adding minerals back, so suggesting just filtering is not aligned. RO water is not expensive ($.30/gal at the Glacier machine)
Nov 11	comment	How worried should I be about a plastic-wrapped kettle that had to air chill for two days? No chill is always done in a sealed container, so the OP did not do the no chill method.
Sep 20	comment	Oxidation during long primary @mdma, That's an awesome/elegant technique!
Sep 20	comment	Wild fermentation with improvised equipment, any advice? Looking forward to you answering your own question based on whatever you figured-out through trial and error!
Sep 20	comment	how well to strain wort after boil Did you add hops directly to the boil? If so, a nylon bag might be in order. But if you used a hop bag, don't worry about the trub in the fermenter... you will leave that behind at bottling.
Sep 19	comment	Possible failed ferment: re-boil or campden + re-pitch? More fun to deal with it here with your online buddies who can feel your pain and maybe offer an idea you didn't think of. Talking to my wife about such matters is like talking to a wall!
Sep 19	comment	How to keep sugar from fermentation and carbonization? I made a graff, based on Graham's recommendation on this board, and it did turn out very good. Not too dry, plenty of appley goodness, and not a bit beer-like. I only wish it was as easy as cider to make. I did a stovetop DME batch of wort (2 gal) and 5 gallons of Motts from megalamart. Pitched on a Belgian wit yeast cake (accidental event that turned out fine).
Sep 19	comment	Oxidation during long primary If you ferment without going to secondary, you should rig your equipment so you can do everything without popping the top of the bucket. I have two ports in my bucket lid. I pull the blow off and replace that with a racking cane that has a stopper on it. The second port, I remove a solid stopper and replace it with a stopper that has a tire stem. Then I add CO2 from a bike tire filler to get the racking siphon going.
Sep 19	comment	Deep cleaning equipment after “brett” contamination 6 Liter bottles get an overnight oxyclean soak, quadruple hot tap water rinse, and an interior coating of starsan before storage. Before use, they get starsanned again. Caps get similar treatment. I boil corn sugar and water, cool for as long as my patience allows, split it into the 3 bottles (sanitized funnel) and rack on top of it.
Sep 19	comment	Deep cleaning equipment after “brett” contamination Yep, I did switch from a racking cane to a autosiphon, and used a different fermentation vessel. I also started wearing rubber gloves when cleaning cold side stuff and during bottling. And I got rid of all cloth in my bottling process (towels). Not that I towel dried anything I'd sanitized, but I would move the towels around (dust) to dry the counter, etc. I think they might have been the problem. I keep a roll of paper towels, but I almost never use them... everything is drip-dry.