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Moving next week and this thing isn't coming along, I bought it off craigslist about 3 years ago from someone who had been using it as a garage fridge. I gutted it and then drilled a hole in the side for a gas line and two holes in front for taps. Works great, I've been using it for several...

I stepped up the dregs from a bottle of JP weizen bam and Bruery saison de lente, individually. I woke them up in a weak 1.020 solution and now they are in a 1L flask with 600ml of ~1.040 wort, they are very active and have a lot of what appears to be yeast in the bottom. My plan was to...

As the title states, the last two beers I brewed had strong butter flavors. VERY disappointing as I haven't had butter beer since my second batch ever, probably 2 years ago. Looking back at my brewing process, and trying to figure out what sets these beers apart from the rest, this is what...

Got sick of auto-playing video ads with sound and no mute/stop button, so I installed adblock today, wow are websites cleaner now. except on HBT, there are these 'enable ads please' pictures up that are of hilarious things like a panda, old lady, dog. wtf?? I don't see these on other...

Should I expect different krausens coming from my all-grain brews? I am only 3 batches into all-grain now (all still in primary). 2 of them I used dry yeasts, one of them I used a 2L starter of a yeast I am familiar with, wyeast 1945. The krausen on all 3 of them only grew 1-2in before...

I built a MLT using a rectangular cooler with a SS mesh hose attached to some fittings/ball valve using a SS hose clamp, yet I find out the screw on the clamp is not actually SS, as it is rusting already after just one use. I do not feel comfortable with a rusty screw contacting with my wort...

A coworker of mine had bought this Danby chill 'n tap unit and never used it, he decided he wanted to keep the fridge part but not the other parts so i bought all of them off of him only really wanting the 5lb co2 tank w/ regulator and wallmount. so now i have these spare parts for sale looking...

So i did the recipe here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/gumballhead-inspired-wpa-92976/ and everything went absolutely perfect, however when i created my ingredient list i wrote down s-04 yeast instead of s-05 so thats what i pitched last night. doing some reading i realized my mistake and...

One of the earliest upgrades I made to my brewing setup, in fact right after my first brew, was an immersion chiller. I bought about the cheapest one i could find on Amazon, thinking what the hell its just a coil of copper how could they mess it up. Well, the hardware the included was tubing...

The recipe kits i get from northernbrewer tell me to mash with a specific volume like 1.5gallons, then sparge with like 3quarts, then top off to boil volume when done mashing. I feel as though it would b much easier to hold a steady temperature with more mash water volume, and as long as i...

Found this white skin in my secondary tonight, i saw a much smaller amount in the primary, took a while for it to come back to the secondary. What do you all think?

Smacked my wyeast packs at 6am on wednesday a 1056 american ale and 1214 belgian abbey, when i got home from work in the afternoon the one had swelled up and the other, belgian abbey 1214, had not at all. Mixed up some dme/water and ended up with a solution about 1200ml and around 1.022 sg...

after siphoning off my first beer from my fermenter for bottling, it seemed to me that i would be able to get more beer out of it if the fermenter was tilted, however tilting it right then stirred up the sediments and the siphon turned white, bleh. I got a bit over 4.5 gallons from it still...

Did my first brew last tuesday the 19th, irish red ale, was a lot of fun, except waiting for the wort to chill (ugh). couple questions i have for future methods 1. I used tea balls to hold the hops in the boil, I bought two thinking it would be enough for the 1oz cascade and 1oz Fuggle, it...