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I'm trying to develop a spruce Pilsner recipe with blue spruce pine needles being in the ingredient list. It's going to be modeled after shorts brewing spruce Pilsner but I'm unsure when to add the spruce tips and how much. Any advice? I was thinking of adding them at 5 min also "dry hoping" them.

Has anyone used the Jack Daniels bourbon barrel smoking chips to make a bourbon barrel beer? If so what were the results? Anyone have thoughts on using these or just soaking oak chips in bourbon for a few days and aging with that?

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So the co2 regulator I have is obviously a piece of junk but my low pressure gage is not working at all. Turned the adjustment all the way down and the needle is maxed out, even when the air is off. Any ideas? I've tried taking it apart but it doesn't seem to want to come apart without a little...

Well I've been brewing beer for some time and had some extra yeast lying around along with a gallon of fresh cider from the cider mill. So I put two and two together and decided to try hard cider that taste like cider and not so winey. I melted some Caramels add them, boiled the cider and...

I figured that but just wanted to ask. I'll be opening a 15bbl brewery in about a year or so... Shooting for next summer

I don't see why it wouldn't work, I've actually thought of doing this but never wanted to buy the soda stream... As I don't drink pop and this would be my only reason for buying one.

What's your distribution plan? If any?

What do you mean by that? Yes it is screwed into the tank all the way with a nylon washer

Yes I've tried that

Hey guys, So I FINALLY got all the parts needed for my kegorator. Today I wanted to clean and sanitize everything so I could keg my first batch. I fill my keg with oxi clean, seal it up and attempt to hook up the co2 to the keg. I think my band new regulator is broken unless I'm overlooking...

Merchant Marine/ River Pilot (just like a real live Captain Phillips)

Hey all, I'm about to keg for the first time. I don't want to keg the whole batch, I need some bottled for a homebrew competition. I've found the best way to evenly carbonate is to add priming sugar to the whole batch and not each individual bottle. So my question is, should I add priming sugar...