Damn you Jeff....now I'm thinking I should replace my 10 gallon pot with a 15 gallon pot.Inkleg wrote:10 gallons of a 1.040 Centennial Blonde in my 15 gallon pot.
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Damn you Jeff....now I'm thinking I should replace my 10 gallon pot with a 15 gallon pot.Inkleg wrote:10 gallons of a 1.040 Centennial Blonde in my 15 gallon pot.
[CC with hands over ears and eyes closed]: "La, la, la....trying really, REALLY hard to not listen to you!"Inkleg wrote:You think that's no help, let me throw this out there.Crazy Climber wrote:You'se guys ain't helpin'!
It takes just as long to do a 5 gallon BIAB batch as it does 2.5. Soooooooo..........with a 15 gallon pot you could double our output and make any size beer you wanted. I've mashed 24lbs of grain and made a 5 gallon 1.105 OG RIS and 10 gallons of a 1.040 Centennial Blonde in my 15 gallon pot.
Inkleg disclaimer: I may or may not be offering the kind of help people are looking for.![]()
Picked up another used kegerator Thursday, so far 2 and still have not hit the cost of a new one, along with it was a 15.5 G. Sanke keg. The thoughts of 10-15 gallon batches have been dancing thru my head all weekend, do Sanke to Corny transfers for tailgating at the Browns games.Yankeedag wrote:The temptation to go big is always lurking....
I've been riding to work when I can, but it seems like it rains every other day this summer. I don't so much not like riding in the rain as how much I hate cleaning the bike up afterwords, but I also don't like the foggy mornings at 6 o'clock on the way to work but coming home in the afternoon is a nice ride.FrozenInTime wrote:Finally got hot here. Last 2 days we have seen temps of 96 degrees. Been getting some nice long motobike rides in, bout damn time!!.
You CAN do it.FedoraDave wrote:And I'm not going to have my snack until after 8:00 pm.
I can do this.
You are absolutely correct, Dave. I got into those bad eating habits fighting off an infection in the digestive tract a year and a half ago and it snowballed. Since the first of the year, with discipline and persistence I have lost 32 lbs and still going. I know you can do it!FedoraDave wrote: It's just discipline and sticking with it.
I can do this.
I have the same problem ... but with me the main culprit is beer. I weighed 175-180 my entire adult life until I started brewing in early 2010 when I was 55. I shot up to 200 within a year, and have to fight to keep it from going higher.FedoraDave wrote:My weight's been creeping up on me the past few months. I was doing really well, too, but then work got busy, I got stressed, and caught a bad case of the effits, so I reverted to the bad eating habits that got me in trouble in the first place; uncontrolled snacking in the evening.
But I don't want to find myself back over 200 pounds. I want to lose the weight I re-gained, and then some. I don't want to feel fat and uncomfortable the way I have been feeling the past three or four months (15 pounds really makes a difference!), and I especially don't want to weigh this much when my daughter gets married next year.
Time to man up, stay strong, exercise my discipline, and do what I gotta do. Last night I made a list of what I'm going to snack on every night of the week. Monday, popcorn; Tuesday, cheese and crackers, etc. And I'm not going to have my snack until after 8:00 pm. If I want to nibble on something before then, I'll have some fruit. Maybe this sounds severe, but this approach works for me for my daytime eating, and you can't enforce rules that don't exist. It's just discipline and sticking with it.
I can do this.
Thanks for the encouragement. And it's not true that eating in the evening doesn't allow for weight loss. Your body metabolism doesn't slow down that much. When I began my weight loss efforts, I still snacked and drank beer in the evening, and lost over 50 pounds before gaining 15 of it back by snacking too much. Calories in have to be lower than calories expended, and I was upscrewing that ratio until I finally got my head on straight and decided to put on my Big Boy pants and get back on the wagon.BlackDuck wrote:You CAN do it.FedoraDave wrote:And I'm not going to have my snack until after 8:00 pm.
I can do this.
I thought eating/snacking shortly before bed was not a good idea though. Your body slows down for sleep mode and doesn't fully metabolize the food. Which then just adds to the weight issue. But if your eating at 8:30 and going to bed at midnight, then it might not matter really.
Good luck!!!