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  1. reinman

    The best of both worlds

    Had some Nut Brown Ale to use up. Added some amber DME and let it ferment a week. Then today I added some bacon. I put the bacon in the oven and baked it till it was crisp. Got rid of most of the fat and grease that way. Put it in some sanitized cheesecloth and dropped it in the fermenter. My...
  2. reinman

    Mr Beer question

    I believe so. It took a while to get it to disolve, but I got the job done and added a can of Englishman's nut brown ale. I picked up some new yeast, and it's chugging away in the cabinet under my sink. We'll see what it looks like in a couple weeks.
  3. reinman

    Mr Beer question

    I suppose with the booster being so hard, the downside will be getting it to disolve. Wasn't sure if it lost anything being so old or not. So then I might just be new yeast to get what I have going. Can I use any yeast, or will I need yeast designed for use with beer? If so and I need to hit a...
  4. reinman

    Mr Beer question

    I was given a Mr Beer that had been sitting around for quite some time. Aside from the keg itself there were some leftover indredients. I know the yeast will be no good and the bags of booster are hard as a rock, so they will need to be thrown out. But I was wondering about the cans. Now they...
  5. reinman

    Cheap cheese in cheap smoker

    I did this a few weeks ago, but I just used my GOSM. I put the can and the soldering iron on the bottom shelf, and put my cheese on the top shelves. I just ran the cord out the bottom corner of the door. The day I did it the temp was in the 40s, and the temp in the smoker stayed in the low 50s.
  6. reinman

    Got a question

    Everything I had read on various forums had you boiling the ingredients, then adding more water to fill the fermentation jug. But when I went to help my son in law the instructions with the Cooper's kit had you warm up the can of syrup in hot water, and boil 2 liters of water in a seperate pot...
  7. reinman

    Got a question

    My son got a Mr Beer, and my son in law got a kit from Coopers. The Mr Beer has you boil the ingredients with water, but the Coopers just has you dump boiling water on top of the ingredients. Is there a difference in ingredients between kits, or is it they just do things differently. I...
  8. reinman

    Question for meat cutters

    As stated the skirt comes from the forequarter. There is a membrane inside the cow or hog or deer that seperates the heart and lung area from the stomach and intestine area. This membrane is made up of two layers to skin and where these two layers of skin meet the ribs there is the long flap of...
  9. reinman

    grass fed beef?

    While I'll agree that a lack of hormones and antibiotics is good, I'm not sure I'd go along with grass fed is better then grain fed. So much of the flavor comes from the fat, which is the result of the grain that is fed. If we want to compare the meat that comes from a half that is processed...
  10. reinman

    Calling all Professional Meat Cutters past and present

    I also grew up in the business. My parents owned a small town locker plant, and we raised our own beef on our farm. I always said I could do everything from feed them to eat them and everything in between. Been out of the business for quite a few years so I'm not into all the special cuts of...
  11. reinman

    any body here make their own......

    This site doesn't really use a press, but it might have some info that you could use. I've been thinking of taking a shot at making some cheese myself later this fall when I have a bit more time. http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser...SE_5gal_00.htm
  12. reinman

    Mothers Day graduation smoke with Qview

    It was funny to see people's reaction to the ABTs. Some thought they were hot, while others thought they were just right. My son said he figured, if dad's eating them they must not be too hot, but one was all he had. Yet his wife had three and didn't think they were that spicy. My sister...
  13. reinman

    Mothers Day graduation smoke with Qview

    We combined Mother's Day with my daughters graduation. My son in law and I said we'd take care of the meat end of things. We hauled both of our smokers to my mom's house and did everything there. Didn't have time to take pictures while making everything, but did get one just before we served...
  14. reinman

    Stuffed pork loin ideas

    Thanks. I want this one to be the sweet one, so I thought the sweet rub would be good. I have a homemade BBQ sauce that is sweet, but I didn't think it would go good with the apples on the inside. We're having a big get together this weekend, and my son in law and I are providing the smoked...
  15. reinman

    Stuffed pork loin ideas

    I'm going to be stuffing a couple porkloins next weekend. I want to stuff one with apple, and I'm thinking of adding pecans, some brown sugar and some cinnamon. Anybody have anything else that I want want to add along with the apples? Also any good ideas for a rub that will go along with a...
  16. reinman

    Breakfast sausage

    I had a problem getting the sheep casings on the plastic LEM tube too, but didn't have that problem with the one we made. Since then I've switched to the smaller hog casings. For me the sheep were too small and the hog at 30 to 32 were too big. I found I could get smaller hog, averaging 24 to...
  17. reinman

    Breakfast sausage

    At 3/8 inch it works well on those 18mm casings for slim jims, and also works well with sheep casings. Even the smallest plastic tube from LEM tapered and was too big to get very much of the 21 mm casing on them. Fresh breakfast sausage is tougher to stuff, because you can't let it sit and out...
  18. reinman

    Breakfast sausage

    You'd probably need a plumbing catalog. LOL That is a water line. At least I think that was what it is, a friend made it for me. We had to do some modification to make it work. There is a bulge and a flat ring on the end of the tube. We ended up needing two washers, one to hold the tube on...
  19. reinman

    My first pastrami with Q-view

    Looks good. Made my first pastrami this weekend too. Not as bad as I thought it might be.
  20. reinman

    BBQ Across America - Weekend of 1-3 MAY 2009

    Bought some corned beef the other day and turned it into pastrami today. http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...ad.php?t=76361
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