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Me and several home brew buddies all have nearly matching kegerators. They have all been in service a couple years and the only thing that has been replaced was o rings on kegs. In the next few weeks we were trying to put together a group order to replace our lines and the o rings in the keg...

A few weeks back I was lucky enough to taste a Dave from hair of the dog brewing. For anyone who is not familiar with it, it is a eisadam. My understanding is that the brewer, Alan Sprints, took 300 gal of his amazing adambier and via partial freezing removed 200 gal of ice crystals leaving...

Havent really decided on a yeast yet. I have had good luck with dry english and scottish ale yeasts and have them on hand so i was considering propping up a massive batch of one of them, oxygenating the hell out of the wort, and pitching a as much yeast as i can. Also, none of us have a giant...

I am going to be obtaining a rather awesome quality bourbon in a few weeks. It will be freshly dumped and hard bunged. I have been racking my brain on beers that i would like to put in it. A big monster oatmeal stout comes to mind. One beer that comes to mind as exactly what i want is the...

me and some friends have been playing around with some oak barrels. The addition of this means we can mash in several of our current mash tuns and have one big boil, thus simplifying filling a 50-60 gal barrel. The other thing i can do is one big mash and do different hops and such in several...

So, i just bought a 55gal stainless barrel that is seamless and contained soda pop syrup so it will make a perfect all around brew kettle. It has a top on it so my first step is to carefully remove the top so i have a lid, the second step will be to put holes and have fittings welded onto it...

i have 18 cornies. I have 2 of them set up with diffusion stones for nitro. Currently there are 4 in the kegerator at home pouring blackberry wheat, pale ale, porter, and nut brown. One of the nitro's are at my friends house pouring a 12%abv russian imperial stout aged for 2 years in...

I undertook one of these sort of huge brewing projects as well. I brewed a huge RIS at about 12% abv 7 gal at a time. I have some friends over at a winery that set me up with a freshly dumped pinot noir barrel at a full 60 gals. Took forever to brew, and it let it age a long time, but after a...

Adam is one of my all time fav beers. Alan, the brewer over there is a really nice guy too. I have 60gals of Adam that i painstakingly brewed 6-7 gal at a time sitting in a barrel in my garage now. Average alcohol came out to about 10% abv. It is about 5 months old and 2.5 months in the...

when adding it in the mash, how much is common to use? Also, how does run off go? Would it be a good idea to add rice hulls at end of the mash to help facilitate run off?

sorry, it will be for a 10 gal batch. I thought i put that in there... I am aware that it is somewhat significantly stronger than doggie claws. I was shooting for more like 13-14% range... With the high og i am anticipating a high fg. The doggie claws recipe was just a starting point...

i really like the flavor the peat malt gives bigger beers such as Adambier or some scotish ales. I am hoping to get a little of it in a barley wine. I think the adambier recipe i have been brewing used 3 pounds with less other grains and comes out fantastic, especially after a little age...

here is what i have so far OG 1.153 FG 1.046 IBU 158 ABV 13.8 % SRM 15 % Weight Weight (lbs) Grain 90.2% 55.00 Canadian Two-row Pale 3.3% 2.00 American Crystal 60L 3.3% 2.00 Canadian Honey Malt...

There is a field of spring wheat next to my house. The other night we were talking to the farmer and gave him a few bottles of homebrew. He said it is a really good crop and it is all going to be for food (not animal feed like some). He offered basically as much of the raw out of the combine...

12395+ 10 Black Berry Wheat 10 DIPA 40 (25 more to go) Adambier 12455 total