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You get two main benefits from chilling your wort quickly: 1. You can pitch your yeast quickly so that any infections wont have time to make a home inside your beer. 2. By chilling quickly you get "cold break" which causes some proteins in your beer to bond together and fall out of suspension...

I went through a bunch of thermometers which caused me to mash way to high 3 batches in a row. Spent 100$ on a thermapen so i never have to worry about it again lol

Looks like you have a great start so far!

i always use their text service (text your question to 46645) never heard of this till now though

yea, im the one taking the picture

I took this picture in April when I was stationed at Camp Liberty when Obama was giving his speech: This is on Page 67 of Time Magazine's Year in Review 2009: I'm pretty stoked! I am going to go buy 2 of these and frame the picture out of one of them.. :) :)

had the worst brewday ever last weekend. Finally got a march pump and went to use it on a 10g batch. Ended up clogging the stupid thing with whole leaf hops when it came time to cool. Dont have an immersion chiller so I transfered it into buckets and let them cool overnight. Pitched the yeast...

I read the first three posts before coming to this: RELAX! Beer making is not hard in the pure essence of what your doing. Follow the instructions and you'll be fine. You'll eventually want to start doing all these cool things you read about like all-grain and using lots of fancy tools like...

one of my dreams! awesome pics

1.000?? i think you better take another reading considering 1.000 is the gravity of water

Save yourself some time and give it 4-6 weeks in primary and bottle directly from there. Tons of beer brewed and never a bad batch yet

always great news! congrats and enjoy something nice when u get some time

I've heard thats a tough exam, maybe one day..

I've always wanted to set something like that up... maybe one day..

I dont follow...

I am currently looking through my recipes. I brewed this before my deployment and I might have lost it :(

Entered a nut brown and ESB into the HHHC (Happy Holiday Homebrew Competition) help here in St. Louis. I never entered one before but I was interested to see what BJCP judges would say about my beer. http://www.stlbrews.org/competition/hhhc/2009_HHHC_Results.htm Look at the Table 11 (2nd...

I offered up an Anejo + BTL sampler for 60$ that no one ever expressed interest. I also have noticed that there is a lot more talk and review for cigars in the 2-3$ range. I think everyone is hurting and looking for some cheap bargain smokes.

Sam Adams Cranberry Lambic - good beer

good luck! I too just got finished with an interview that I thought went very well, lets hope we both end up with good news!