My wife got a new addition to her Christmas city(to big to be called a village) from our son and family. This makes 38 houses and businesses. Sort of brewing related.

So we have lots of potatoes, lots of qt jars and want to put up some spuds to go with veggies for quick stew. Tons of stuff on the goog but anybody have any special tricks to not have a jar of mush? Have done this before but would like firmer spuds.

In the past you have changed things up and added bells and whistles that everyone doesn't want. You were asked by several users for the option of removing it from the editor. Purchases for example. Why did you add costs to inventory and recipe editor and not make it so we who don't care what a...

I don't know what you have done but at random the editor will not acknowledge grains from catalog. Thought it could be from my inventory being out of date(I quit trying to use it after the last fup) but with my inventory cleared of all items it is still unusable. At random it will delete grains...

Will be brewing @Yooper 's Oatmeal Stout today or tomorrow. Really liked the use of chocolate malts and have been looking for an excuse to gets some of Denny's yeast too. I doubled the batch to 10gal and adjusted for my water. I really want this beer to come out well as it is our first Oatmeal...

Developers could have avoided a lot of the negative comments with a simple explanation here in announcements to say why the recent (aesthetic mostly) changes were made. I'm very saddened by how this has changed over time. I have been here longer than the developers and have just been trying to...

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I have been brewing with lots of homegrown hops lately and have come up short on volume with larger hop bills fairly consistently. Not huge but still short when using whole hops. I know there is more absorption with whole cones and I do just throw them in the BK and have hop absorption set high...

Have been getting tired of replacing plastics and not wanting to go glass but have a hard time as a do it yourselfer buying a $300 conical or even a $120 portless SS fermenter when I can get a couple of SS base brew kettles @ $60each and fashioning a seal for them. Anybody tried this? All...

Have had this 25$ frig for over 10 years. Got home from a long wknd to find it registering 75f. Raise a pour for an old friend. May it RIP (after we transfer the coasters).

I click into quick water requirements from any of my recipes after saving and hop absorption is not included on the drop down. Just me needing a reboot or just missing?

I have been tossing around a recipe for a wheat beer that doesn't need a slice of orange. I found these experimental hops at Yakima Valley Hops(experimental Tangerine) and have done several different recipes with them. I have found they get more "tart" I guess if to much are used. If only aroma...

In Spokane WA this afternoon and tomorrow. We will be there all day Saturday. Anyone else attending? Plenty of different beers to choose from. Lots of fresh hops and barrel aging. Fremont Dark Star series is always amazing. Definately an uber type of event but their fees in Spokane are very...

Just put a new 20# bottle on 2 weeks ago. Checked for leaks and all was good I thought. Have added 40gal of beer to keezer since then but noticed bottle was down quite a bit. Dam it! Sure enough there was a leak at gasket between tank and regulator so got that fixed. Then noticed a slight...

I have been working with boiling my water to reduce alkalinity. I need some clarification on how the Water Chemistry Calculator handles this. If I click boil water the decant box also checks. I see the different treatments you are dealing with decant checked or not, however the software still...

I recently got my Ward Labs report back and all is basically a little low in salts (easily fixed) however my Bicarbonate level is 200ppm. Palmer says boil, electric brewery says ignore and add acid are just 2 examples of what I've seen. I would rather avoid the trouble of mixing ro or...

My 3rd season of growth on the Centennial is up 6 feet and we have only had a few days over 70F. I have some Cascade starts from a friend in pots that need transplanted and still have 2 more varieties to get rhizomes from friends and get going this year.

Nosybear brought up a point that is very relevant to this portion of the forum. I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes because lots of us do it including me. Ask for feedback on recipes that are not complete. There are so many variables in brewing that without the right info it is impossible to...

For some reason the pounds and ounces won't add together in the shopping list. The totaling feature for this is great when you go to the store for specific recipes. We live a distance away from the LHBS so thought we would try it out. Added 5 recipes onto the list with a click each, saw that...

I started a few years ago brewing a big malty beer every year that I thought would keep well in a cellar for a long period of time. It needs to age gracefully melding together. So far I have used Trappist yeast, Nottingham and Belle Saison. I have a big cake of Saison saved for this year but...