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I'm am at the tail end of a hard cider experiment where I have about 18 different mini batches. I would like to carbonate each one individually so I went to the hardware store and picked up some gear to convert a 1L Pepsi bottle into a pressure vessel. I just did my first test with plain water...

Hey everyone. I thought I would upload a bunch of photos and give you a step by step process of how I built my 5 tap keezer. I tried to keep everything as low-cost/high-quality as possible. I am no carpenter so fair warning, not everything worked out perfectly. I think just about anyone could...

I thought I would give the CPVC bottom a try. I have been using the SS braid and just got sick of it floating and my spoon catching it. A lot of the CPVC manifolds I've seen have all sorts of T's and elbows and whatnot. I thought I would give it a try with lightly heating and bending the...

About 10 minutes after pitching a pack of US-05 into my starter wort, I found out I shouldn't have made a starter with it. I just recently got into making them and never realized that dry yeast shouldn't have a starter. I'm wondering if I should split my starter in half and use one portion...

I'm planning on brewing an American Wheat in the next few days and want to use the US-05 yeast that's currently sitting on the bottom of my cold crashed Irish Ale. After reading through a few things my plan is to pitch 1 - 1.5 cups of slurry into my new wort. My question is if I should do...

---Sold--- I have my 3 tap keezer for sale in the Twin Cities. I have had a great time building and using it, but I need a little more room to do some lagers. I can either sell it with all the hardware (taps, shanks, hoses, disconnects) or without them. If you want to put your own faucets in...

I just thought I would post this as an interesting picture. This was started about 30 hours ago and is a mixture of both US-05 Dry Yeast and Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast. The reason I combined the two is because I had roughly washed them about a week ago and forgot which jars contained which...

So I recently brewed an Oatmeal Stout using US-05, and a Guinness clone using WYeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast. I collected and washed yeast for each one of these but then put them in the fridge without labeling them. So now I have 2 nice canned yeast strains, but no idea which one is which...

I am a few days away from getting the rest of the parts I need to finish up my nitro tap and I have a few questions. I have a freshly brewed guinness clone that is also a few days away from going into a keg. From what I can gather, I should carbonate it on pure CO2 up to about 1.5-2.0 volumes...

Hi everyone. I am using well water for brewing and am wondering if there is something I should be doing to improve my beer. I don't have a lot of information to go off of because all I have are simple test strips. What I can tell you from them is that my "Total Hardness (CaCO3) grains per...

I just picked up a nitrogen regulator and noticed that it does not have any kind of gasket or O-ring for the Tank-Regulator connection. Looking around online I see many regulators that do have a gasket near the tip of the connection, and many others that have no o-ring or gasket whatsoever...

I'm thinking of brewing a doppelbock with a friend and I'm trying to figure out if I can lager or not. I use the internal temp controller and the highest I can get the temp to go is 46degrees F. Do you think that WY2206 will work at this low temp? I'm still working on trying to get the temp up a...

Im just curious if anyone has notice a significant difference between 10 days dry hopped vs 14. This is the normal "range", Im just curious if there is a difference in this range.

This should be interesting. I'm going to brew this as an ale, which from research I've found is probably more "traditional" anyway. I'm looking at this recipe, simple, but should be effective. 18lbs munich (lots of varieties, looking at this one...

Just an idea I had cause im always coming up with strange ideas as I lay in bed trying to sleep. For the next 5 brews I make, do a second sparge of 1gal, collect and store/freeze until I have 5gal from 5 batches. Throw it all into my pot and boil it down to 2.5 gal. "Garbage Pail Ale"...

I know this is asked a lot, but I have a substance that (when sealed in a container) will drop humidity to zero. It looks like little light bluish pebbles. Water is VERY attracted to it, so if I put some of this in a tub of crushed grain, will it be bad to pull ALL of the water out of the grain...

So heres what I've come up with but I have a few questions. 10lbs 2-row 1.75lbs Vienna .5lbs 40L .5lbs wheat .5oz Centennial@60 1.25oz " " @20 2oz " " @5 2oz " " dry hop after primary fermentation Yeast from their bottle. My concern is that they state 7% ABV but an OG of only...

Im brewing this wheat tomorrow 6.5lbs wheat 4.5lbs 2-row 1lb flaked oats 1lb flaked wheat 1lb carapils 1oz tett@60 1oz tett@1 WY1010 I forgot to grab bitter orange peel from the brew store. Do grocery stores carry this, or something analogous? Thanks. BTW its a heavy wheat I...

Heres my situation. I have 1 keg in a mini-fridge. The fridge is at a constant 40 degrees due to technical difficulties (just trust me on this one). I can fit another keg in there that I could use for lagering. Would 40 degrees constant be ok for fermenting/lagering, I usually see 50 for...

I've been chatting over at Northern Brewer for a while now and figured I'd better expand my base for information. Great to join you guys. A bit about me Im 23 years old, been brewing for a bit over a year new. Have about 15 brews under my belt, 14 of them all-grain. Ive decided to start...