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Ok, I think I found a CNC shop over here (in Taiwan) that can make a grain mill for me. Does anyone have any plans for one? Something using CAD maybe that I could give to some machinists and they would understand what I am talking about. Thanks.

Will beer stick like mead? I am worried about a batch I have now. It has been completely inactive for more than a week. To the best of my knowledge the SG has not change for a couple days either, but it reads a final 1.03, which seems high. But then, my hydrometer is a piece of **** so I am...

When do you really need a grain mill? Is it standard AG equipment? I am getting equipment together to do all grain brewing from pale malt barley and am just wondering if this is required equipment.

I am looking into making a mash tun soon. I have seen a lot of the "cylinder cooler with a grid work of copper tubing" style, but couldn't I just use one of those coolers and fit it with a collander (sp?) or similar screen that leaves about an inch at the bottom underneath? Is there some...

I would like to hear as many methods on adjusting the ph of water/wort at various stages in the brew process as possible. In particular I would like to hear methods using ingredients one does NOT necessarily need to go to a brew store to find.

I have some very interesting Extract recipes I want to try, but I only have access to malt barley and specialty grains (no extract). How do I convert a recipe from extract to grain-bill?

I want to roast some base malt barley into specialty grains myself. Any tips as to how to do this from some who have tried (and hopefully succeeded)?

I would like to put a spigot into my brew pot like so many of the photos I have seen on here. How would I go about doing this?

I need some suggestions as to how to make a functional bottle dryer. I am in a place where I can not buy one so I need to figure something out on my own.

So, I am VERY new to brewing with only one extract brew under my belt. But necessity has pushed me to go AG very early. I live in Taiwan where there is not a single brew shop, but I have managed to find a brewery that imports malted barley by the metric ton and is willing to sell be a few...

I am trying to find a domestic source of barley for brewing (I live in Taiwan) and so far all I have found is "roasted" barley, like the kind used in barley tea. I don't think it is malted, if I understand what that mean, but when steeped like tea it does make a sweet almost wort like...

So, at around 30 Psi when carbonating beer and 5 Psi after that, how much of a chance is there really for a corny to explode? That sounds like a pretty low pressure to me, but then I am comparing to the kind of pressure that goes into a SCUBA tank. I ask this because I am thinking about...

Ok, I am about to attempt my first barley wine, but the recipe is a bit brief. Can some of you more experienced folks flesh it out for me? Here is its: Barley Wine Ingredients: 12 pounds, dry pale malt extract 1/2 pound, honey 1 pound, dry light malt extract 1-1/2 pounds, corn sugar...

I am a bit over a week with my first mead, and for a couple of days my ferment has been really slow compared to what I had for the first several days. Now I get about one bubble ever 40-50 seconds. I had an initial SG of 1.1 and am down to about 1.065 now, so I have a ways to go. Is this slow...

How do you take an SG rating without aerating your Must/Wort? Also, how do you bottle with aeration? It seems almost impossible without some kind of specialized equipment.

Really, how important is it to have a clear fermenter? I have never used an opaque one, but I know a lot of people use the "ale pale" and other similar style buckets. It just seems to me that when racking time comes around it would be hard to judge how deep to rack and avoid the lees if you...

I just got some pure DAP to feed my mead. At least I think I did, as I live in Taiwan the name is in Chinese. I found some sources online with a Chinese-to-Chemical Name dictionary so I am pretty much 99% sure I got the right stuff. However, a guy I know here has some he found as well, but...