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So for the first time, I had to go with whole leaf hops (local store did not have the variety I needed in pellet form) and when I dumped my wort in primary, a ton of the buggers were left in (I was flying solo and my strainer fell off and then into the bucket during the pour so...lol...I have a...

Yikes, Ok, so I have been a bit busy to brew for...well a few months longer than I care to admit. Back in March I dumped a bunch of my gear into a bottling bucket of Star San and promptly forgot about it. To my delight, when I went to go re-clean everything a few days ago I found a nasty...

I found this recipe for Racer 5 and as a new All Grain brewer -- and one that had some troubles with his temps the first time around -- i'm curious about the wording on the mash instructions. When they say to to mash in at 145 are they saying that is a rest or is it just to heat up the tun...

I finally got my rig up and running and took my first swing at AG yesterday (brewing Ed's Haus Ale). My pre and post boil OGs were both rather low (.022 and .041 respectively) so I'm trying to narrow down the causes. There were a few stumbles along the way. I had my strike water a nice 167...

I've just gotten into kegging and will (hopefully) never have to go back to bottles unless I happen to want to for some special reason. My question relates to aging in kegs -- I can't quite wrap my head around it and I'm sure somebody can give me the whys (not that it's a huge deal, as I...

Ok, so I picked up my Home Depot Black Friday kegerator and had a (mostly) great week or so hosting lots of friends over a 1/4 barrel of commercial beer and now it is time to get down to business with my own. I bought my first Corny as well as a gas and faucet connector kit. In theory I...

My new kegerator had its debut this weekend with a quarter barrel of Red Trolley Ale. So far its been great but I am finding the tap has a slow drip. This was one of those Home Depot Black Friday kegerators and to say the documentation isn't great is a bit of an understatement. Is there an easy...

I just picked up one of those Home Depot Magic Chef Kegerators and was wondering if any of you L.A. brewers had any info on where to get cheap (or at least, reasonable) Cornys. I'm also looking for a nice place to get my C02 tank filled at a reasonable price. Any info is much appreciated! Jim

As it says in the title, this is just a hypothetical I couldn't really answer. No need to explain why just getting all the gear and doing a proper all grain is better...it's just a hypothetical. That said... if you were to take the BYO approach to countertop, partial mashing, except going...

When you pitch your wort onto an existing yeast cake, what do you do regarding aerating? Do you still stir rapidly and splash heavily or will that upset the yeast cake and screw things up? Thanks in advance! Jim

I live in L.A. but I never miss filling a gallon up with Karl Strauss' Red Trolley Ale when I get down to San Diego. Their site has most of the ingredients listed but with no amounts. I'm still pretty new to all this and can't really judge how much of this or that is a logical start point...

I've had a 5 gallon batch of IPA in bottles for about a month and while the bottles in one box have been struggling a bit to get carbonated, I just chilled and opened a 22 oz from box #2 and it almost exploded (top blew off and beer everywhere...luckily no broken bottles). Two questions...

Ok -- I've been reading the forum long enough to know that in 99% of the cases, the general answer to the often-asked question of bailing out on a batch is to just see it through anyway but... I had issues with my first batch, which according to most of the experts I gave a sample to at the...

Forgive me -- I was never very good at math and now it is biting me in the butt... I am going to hit the LHBS tomorrow to get the goods for BYO Clone's Rogue Hazelnut Brown recipe. However, unlike almost every other recipe I've seen, it does not list the hops in ounces but rather in AAUs...

I'm just about to rack a Sierra Neveda IPA clone to secondary and while my OG was within the expected range (1.051) my gravity now (after 11 days in primary) is at the low end of the expected FG (1.012). My two questions are: 1) Should I be concerned? 2) I often hear about folks who...