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I brewed on Wednesday, 10 gallons like I always do. Dry stout. Split into two different fermentation buckets. I thought I'd try two different yeasts. Wyeast and Omega. Here it is Friday and the omega test is off and running. Nothing from the Wyeast. I was a little concerned when the smack pack...

I have the option to get 2 of these "air tanks" for $25. Are these oxygen tanks? The valve doesn't look the same as my CO2 tank. are they easily converted to CO2? Is this a potential score, or a waste of $25? thanks

So I saw an ad for Boxofbeermagnets.com in zymurgy, I think. The website leaves a lot to be desired, but I think this could be of interest to me. Anyone bought the box of beer magnets that could comment on it? Quality, # of magnets, cost, etc.? I've been meaning to call, but I haven't had a...

I'm absolutely loving my dry stout served on my new nitrogen setup with a stout faucet! The question is, what other beers are good served like this? Would any stout (american, oatmeal, etc.) be just as good? Any others styles (British ales maybe)? I did a search (both here and general...

Maybe someone can help me out here. At the moment, I only have one perlick faucet, but I plan to get a stout faucet soon. The problem is, I want to drill the holes in my refrigerator now for the perlick I have. I want to drill the holes as high as possible without the freezer door bumping...

This weekend I saw a craigslist ad for a small chest freezer for $65. I email the guy asking where he is located. It turns out he is in the next town over. I use this to my advantage and reply back saying it he is farther away than I wanted to drive, but if he'll take $60 for it, I'll make...

Does anyone know the extract potential (points per pound per gallon) of pumpkin, either canned or fresh? I'm wanting to add pumpkin to my mash, but I can't find any good info on how many points I can expect to get out of it which makes crafting the recipe to hit a target SG somewhat...

I have amassed so many packing peanuts over the past year it's not even funny. I started saving them thinking, oh if I ever want to ship something, I'll have free packing peanuts to use. I haven't shipped a single item since. I hate just throwing them out, so now I'm wondering if there is any...

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I'm doing my first all grain today - an Anchor Porter clone. It has about 13.5lbs. of grain for this 5 gallon recipie. I was going to mash with 16 quarts and I plan on batch sparging. For 7 gallons into the kettle, I figure this leaves about 4.8 gallons to sparge with. Should I: A) drain...

I just bought a 20lb. propane tank tonight so I can brew with my new turkey fryer this weekend. I've never owned one before, so I never thought about this until I got home and read the safty label on it that says never store it indoors or even in a garage. How seriously should I take that...

I picked up a 500ml Young's oatmeal stout over the weekend just to try it to see if I might like to brew a "clone" recipie, and as I was pouring it, I noticed the best before date was October 05.:eek: I was less than impressed with it. It was a little bland, not very creamy. Would three...

So how long is it supposed to take for the 2-liter bottles to start firming up? I'm in the understanding that after 4 days they should be rock hard and ready to drink/refrigerate. I'm at day 2 now and they are still as squishy as ever. I would have thought I'd notice something by now. I...

My kid's see-through sippie cup half-filled with apple juice found its way behind something on our kitchen counter and we missed it the past few days when it came time to do the dishes. Well, I found it tonight, and it's bubbling away like my apfelwein! My wife mixed up the frozen concentrate...

Well, for my 100th post, I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm from the lesser of the two Fort W's - Fort Wayne. Indiana, that is. Whenever I tell someone I'm from Fort Wayne, 75% of the time the person responds something along the lines of: "oh, how do you like Texas?" And I'm always like...

I can't believe I did this. It was an otherwise flawless brewing experience tonight - hit my targeted gravity on the dot for the first time - until I got to cleaning up and noticed that my bitter orange peel got hidden under some papers and I forgot to add it. Everything is in the fermenter...

So I racked my chocolate raspberry stout to secondary tonight, and as I was taking the airlock off, It occurred to me that I could be drinking the vodka in the airlock instead of just pouring it down the drain. Since I was already on my second appfelwein and I have work tomorrow morning, I...

So, I'm wanting to throw together a batch of root beer and it supposedly makes about 4 gallons, or eight 2-liter bottles. I know you're supposed to refrigerate after a few days once enough CO2 has been produced to make the yeast go dormant. Problem is, I've been putting it off because I don't...

They say to beat your enemy, you have to know your enemy. As homebrewers, oxidation is our enemy. I don't know if I ever drank an oxidized beer before, so I don't know what it would taste like or what I'm trying hard to avoid. So I was bottling the other night and ended up with half a...

So I picked up a sampler case of Sam Adams summer brews at Sam's Club the other day. It came with four each of six different "summer" beers. One of them was a cherry wheat. I thought that sounded interesting, so I cracked one open.... WTF??? This is the worst beer I ever had. I'm not one...