Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

@perchie.girl
Glad your son found a way to make it all work. I bet you he will be writing some excellent sci-fi that background.


Different subject baby chickens...
Okay I have come all the way back to my original plan of putting my little chickens in my old coop... should I hang heat lamp in there or should I give them a heating pad in a little cozy compartment area? Perhaps I shouldn't do anything... No it's in an insulated coop, when the temperatures start to dip back down they will need some sort of heat... don't you think?

 

[Beer can]

Its a bucket of homebrew ready to bottle.
Its a sierra nevada torpedo clone

Awesome bama! Did you use a kit or a recipe?
Where do you buy your supplies?
I usually do two five gallon batches at once and fill soda kegs, no more bottling for me.

 

[NotAFarm]

Wow, I've finally caught-up but didn't even try to multi-quote through all the pages!

Congrats on children's accomplishments, new birds/bunnies/dogs etc. and completed construction projects!
Prayers for those who need them.
Yay, for swapping and sharing of chocolate, seeds, eggs and what-have-yous.

Hawks at Pittsburgh tonight and then the All-Star break. Antti Raanta was in the net last night for the victory over the Coyotes. Teuvo is playing with more confidence. I'll be glad when Versteeg is back, we are missing him.

We had about 3/4 of the ground bare yesterday, this morning about 4-5 inches of new snow and everything is white again.....

Spring....Spring...wherefore art thou, Spring?!

 

[bamadude]

Awesome bama! Did you use a kit or a recipe?
Where do you buy your supplies?
I usually do two five gallon batches at once and fill soda kegs, no more bottling for me.

I started out with extract kits.
Then moved up to grains/extract kit.
This was my first "all grain" brew.
Ive bought several extract kits from "The Shady Lady" in Pensacola Florida.
I have lately been ordering from adventuresinhomebrewing.com. Everything I have bought from them has been of excellent quality. I really need a corny keg. Bottling is aggrivating

 

[Beer can]

I got four used refurbished corny kegs and everything to go with it from Midwest Brewing online. Cheapest place I found them. Don't pay the extra for a new aluminum co2 tank not worth it no one refills only exchanges. Now I have a old steel tank, no one sees it anyway. Need to get door taps next, just have the picnic hose taps now. I buy most of my malt through Williams brewing, its in bags though, Midwest's is in milk jugs, easier to use.
Haven't tried all grain yet, hope to soon. Midwest has awesome grain/extract kit and many clones. I tried their Irish Stout, and a dry rye roggenbeir, both excellent. I usually just make my own kit through Williams its cheaper.

 

[vehve]

Deb, nice to hear he liked it. Good luck to him.

Sam, I might give them a bit of heat just to be safe. Al would probably say no.

Haven't made beer myself, but my dad used to make apple wine sometimes. We found ten bottles that had been forgotten for six or seven years, it was delicious.

 

[Peep_Show]

Its a bucket of homebrew ready to bottle.
Its a sierra nevada torpedo clone

Nice... Kind a looked like a backed up toilet

Oh. Okay.
I was going to guess a spittoon with a target in it... Kind of like those toilet targets of little battleships or something....

Let us know how it turned out. I like all-grain brewing... Makes beer making into a total science project. My favorite part is the fermentation when it sounds like a crazy aquarium. I did the first ferment in a glass carboy once...amazing how much churning and roiling was going on. Fermentation is VERY active.

 

[Beer can]

I started one too warm once, blew the top off the bucket and blew malt and sticky foam all over the counter and in the cupboards while I was at work, wife wasn't happy.
My last project.

 

[bamadude]

Oh.  Okay.
I was going to guess a spittoon with a target in it...  Kind of like those toilet targets of little battleships or something....

Let us know how it turned out.  I like all-grain brewing... Makes beer making into a total science project.  My favorite part is the fermentation when it sounds like a crazy aquarium.  I did the first ferment in a glass carboy once...amazing how much churning and roiling was going on.  Fermentation is VERY active.

its sort of amazing to me...im thinking it would be cool to "grow your own beer". Grow the grains, hops, keep mother yeast, etc.

Lol that target looking thingy is a wyyeast liquid yeast packet. I really prefer it. It starts fast and hits hard...
I have a plastic carboy for now...

 

[Beer can]

Dang, oil prices are starting to affect work. We knew it was coming. Overtime is being cut down as well as that we are no longer working Sundays...The good news is no lay offs (yet)

I take it your in the oil or gas industry. What I hear is OPEC is lowering the cost of oil so it makes US natural gas industry hurt. Low prices are good for the consumer but bad for businesses and jobs in the field. Our Gov. in NY just banned natural gas horizontal drilling even though it has been safely done in 31 states. NY has a vast amount of it, and the majority of the landowners want to drill. I saw a protester on the news with a sign saying our Gov. has time to visit Cuba, but has never visited a gas well in Pennsylvania.