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Murphy  Been about a year since Murphy left us. Kind of miss him. He just walked up our laneway and  went to the back deck and stayed there until I let him in. That is all it took. Saw another cat walk up our laneway on October 15 of this year just the same way as Murphy did. Word got around I guess. I am taking an inventory of hops to see what I need for batches up to Xmas. After that? No idea yet. Marty's smoked beer maybe. Ingredients 11 lbs. Rahr 2 ozs. Simpsons CL 2 ozs. CaraRed 1 oz. CaraFa Special III - ( never use this in an IPA again ) 14 g Warrior at 60 min. 56 g Cascade at 15 min. 56 g Cascade at 0 min. 56 g Cascade dry hop 3 days before kegging. -  US-05 ( 1 ) RO Water Mash Water Volume - 5.50 gallons Sparge Water Volume - 5 gallons MASH Gyp - 7.3 g CC - 1.6 g Eps - 4.2 g Lactic Acid - .3 ml BOIL Gyp - 6.7 g CC - 1.5 g Eps - 3.8 g Lactic Acid Sparge - .2 ml CA - 110 MG - 20 SODIUM - 4 CI - 51 S04 - 275 PH - 5.30 O.G. - 1.050 - 87% F.G. - % - SRM - 6.3 ...

  First time smoking a Turkey. A lot of ways to do it according to You Tube. There seems to be the first rule is to use a water pan but don't put any water in it. It will hold back the temp so you won't get it up to around 300F. Well, I can do that but have to do a couple of other things first. Use a SS bowl on the bottom of the smoker just above the lower part and put your water pan on top of that. It supposedly won't get the bird too rubbery with all of the extra humidity when using it with water. You have to adjust the temp with the lower vents almost closed and the upper vent wide open. I am sure I will have to adjust the upper vent so don't walk away too much. Buy a cheese cloth to put over the bird for half of the cooking time to stop it from getting too dark. Install the lower grate over the hot coals and then the SS bowl and then the water pan over that. The water pan won't burn the drippings because of the SS bowl is used as a heat buffer. Brining the turke...