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Thank you! After blowing it out, it wouldn't close. Took off the bonnet and used an Allen wrench which didn't turn the bolt but took off the bonnet assembly. Once that was off, I noticed there the nut piece was shredding the threads on the bolt. So I'm ordering a new assembly today.

So tonight I noticed that when I turn my regulator all the way shut, it still allows CO2 to release at about 10 psi. It only stops when I turn the bottle of ff. Any idea what's wrong with it? I'm pretty sure it didn't do this previously.

So I have the choice of two 4 way secondary gauges. The first is the Taprite CGR284-PT 4 way. In the past couple weeks, I've had 2 Taprite gauges screwed up. The first didn't read the pressure accurately and the dial didn't rise past 40 PSI. The second is the first version of the above 4 way...

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So I brewed up a batch of beer a two weeks ago. I used a Wyeast smack pack (1028). The bag didn't blow up at all, but I figured I'd pitch it anyway. Nothing happened for about 2 and a half days and then it started to slowly bubble and a thin Krausen formed and so I thought "Great!". Two days...

Ok I've decided to use 5lbs of grain 3lbs of DME, but with more hops and making a pale ale instead of blueberry. SWMBO was very sympathetic to my plight, but it will cost me something later I'm sure. I picked up 3oz of Independence, 3oz of Revolution, 3oz of Sorachi, 3oz of glacier and a pound...

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SWMBO said I could buy some more brew supplies if I made a blueberry ale. I'm excited about the wet hops after trying the Southern Hemisphere Harvest. It sounded...interesting...to put the two together. My mind pictured an earthy, yet tart ale to start off the school year in the proper fashion...

The local Airgas has a picture of a car where someone stored some tanks. It looks like it was used for a car bomb. They routinely load up all canisters onto trucks and secure it, but if you insist on putting it in the car, they make you put it in by yourself. No pressurized canister should be...

Can I use Golden DME instead of the light for the extra crystal malt? (I have have the grain and the DME already).

On Rebel Brewer they are offering wet hops and Malteurop 2-row. I wanted to experiment with these and create a smooth blueberry ale. I'm still not great at creating recipes, so I based this off of another recipe I've found. I want to try a SMaSHish recipe, converted into a partial mash. This is...

I brewed this batch about 5 weeks ago. After a week in the bottle I decided to try one, and it was a delicious smoky flavor that settled nicely into a nice banana/citrus flavor. I tried one about a week later and the smoke flavor had diminished to being very quick and subtle and ending up in a...

In Mississippi, the state caps beer at 6% ABV. A lot of places just don't send to MS instead of dealing with our archaic beer laws (It's also illegal to homebrew beer, shhh) Tenn. can sell "big beer" in liquor stores and all kinds of craft beers elsewhere. AL just raised their cap to 13% (iirc)...

I tweaked this recipe some with the help of the brewer at the LHBS. He said that with the ingredients listed, there would be no conversion in the mash tun because nothing listed has enzymes to convert sugars. 3lbs Wheat Dry Extract 4lbs White Wheat Malt 1lb Flaked Wheat 2lbs Pilsner malt 1oz...