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I figure it's a long shot, but I found a wallet by Park St tonight. Shoot me a message with your name if you think it's yours.

Specifically Cece's earrings in s6e9. The wife remarked that she liked them, so I'd like to find something close. I know the style is a "jacket" earring. Anyone know of a close match?

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Thanks.

For myself, glass containers 30 mL and less are vials. Greater than that I refer to them as jars.

I got some cacao nibs off amazon for a vanilla chocolate stout. Turns out I should have looked more closely at the options as the ones I bought include dark chocolate and a confectioners glaze.

Anyone ever use these candied ones? Would you expect any bad side effects besides a tad more fermentation from the sugar? Will the beer even be able to extract through the candy coating?

I plan to soak the vanilla and cacao in whiskey for 24-48 hrs to sanitize prior to adding it. I expect that would eat through the coating a bit.

I dont think the temp had evened out in my mash tun on my first temp reading despite mixing before. I came in low at 150 (target 153), so I added 4 cups of boiling water. after mixing that in i read 154, which i was fine with. Just took another reading 30 min in, and it's 160!

I'm assuming the temp had time to even out and I just didn't mix thoroughly before. I opened up the tun and stirred a bunch and got the temp down a few degrees. I don't want my beer to finish with a high FG, can I wait and extra half hour with the grain around 153 to get the starches to convert more to fermentable sugar?

I have about 20 min left of the original hour long mash.

Edit: Maybe I just need a new thermome

Hey all,

I finished my new set brew set up a couple months ago and thought I'd share. I used to do 5 gal BIAB in an 8 gal kettle, which was very tight. I wanted to move to a full 3 vessel set up, doing 10 gallon batches. I also wanted to keep it to a fairly small footprint, and (sort of) low in cost. I didnt want to buy pumps, so it had to be 4 tiers including the ground for filling my fermenters. So I built the following out of perforated angle steel from mcmaster.

Pictures with descriptions and plenty of commentary.

I had been considering a new set up for a while. This all got a kick start when I spotted a 50% off sale from Bru Gear because they were moving

Hey chicken peeps,

I brew 10 gallon batches of beer, and so I end up with a ton of spent grain every few weeks. I kind of dislike throwing it all away. I hear chickens will eat this stuff up.

If you're in the El Cerrito area and interested in picking up ~20 lbs of spent grain every few weeks shoot me a PM and we can exchange contact info.

Mods feel free to have me publicly drawn and quartered if this post is out of line. I didn't see any rules in the side bar.

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So I was looking for another burner on cragislist. I've made a tiered brewing stand (I'll probably make a post about that eventually) and my solution for moving the burner from one kettle to the other wasn't going to work as well as I thought it would.

I got one from another brewer off craigslist. He said it was functioning fine when I went to pick it up. It was dark out so I didn't have a very good look at it, which I blame myself for entirely. I probably could have knocked him down $5 or $10 if I had seen and pointed out all the clogged holes.

I get home and test it out. The gas outlets were split about 50/50 between short and high flame. If anyone was