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Guys, Well I have been kegging for about a year now using the standard corney kegs and they work great, but now I am looking for a smaller keg option, i really would like to use the 5 litre mini kegs but the fittings and the fact you have to toss it after 4 or 5 uses sucks, i also looked at...

Guys, I just tapped a keg that I filled 25 days ago and it is flat, when I racked it from the primary I used 1/3 cup of priming sugar as I thought I was supposed to do and let it sit for 3 weeks. I put it in the fridge on Monday and when I tapped it today i hooked up the beer line first to...

Guys, I have about 10 or more brews behind me now and I am looking for a turkey cooker, i do have a question, in allot of the recipies it calls for about 1.5 gal in the brewpot and then add to the carboy with 3 gal of water, i do hear about the fact that a full boil is the way to go, if I buy...

I posted a thread the other day on washed yeast in making a starter and it worked out great I do have another question? Can you just take the 8 oz jar of washed yeast and bring it up to room temp and then pitch it right into a cooled five gal of wort, just skipping the starter?

Guys, In January I washed some yeast from the slurry of a honey beer batch that I used a Wyeast pack starter to make, I followed the directions on this site for washing yeast, it appeared to have gone good, while yesturday afternoon I pulled one jar out of the fridge and let it get to room...

Guys, I brought about 8 bottles down to Florida on the airplane, I wrapped them in bubble wrap and they made it safe and sound My question is has anyone shipped or transported beer this way? Of course the bottles are shook up but they have bubbles in the neck and 3 days later they are...

Guys, when I make a starter i use a 1/2 gal growler with about 6 1/2 cups of water, 2 cups of dme, and yeast. I have never done this but I want to brew 2 batches at once and was wondering if I can split the starter netween the both batches I am going to use 8 oz of washed yeast and most...

Guys, I just finished my first keg, it was a wonderfull thing, but I have a question When I bottled i put 2 gal in a bottling bucket with priming sugar to bottle and the rest in a keg to force carb, i finished the keg just the other day but not before I had a chance to compare force carbed...

Guys, I just got my first keg up and running, I racked it last night around 9:00pm, I left in the fridge overnight at 15 psi, I put about 3 gal in a 5 gal corney with no priming sugar, today at 10am I turned the pressure to 25 psi and shook for 10 min and then back in the fridge, then I shook...

Guys, I had a keg system in a fridge in the garage for years but retired it years ago and I have just pulled it out of storage and I am ready to keg my first batch, I have a small question, Before I had the tank and regulator outside the fridge but I was wondering if I could put the tank...

Guys, we made this beer 3 weeks ago and did not do any hydro readings because it was so long we thought is should be done, but just now when we were getting ready to bottle we noticed that it was still bub about 1 each 30 sec, the beg hydro was 1.046 at 70 degrees and it is 1.004 at 65 degrees...

Guys, I made a True Brew IPA kit and by being holiday season I left it in the primary for about 2.5 weeks, I bottled it about a week ago and opened a bottle on Christmas and no carb at all, I primed with the priming sugar in the kit which haas worked great in the past, I know it might be too...

I am trying not to ask to many questions that have allready been answered but after a quite a few batches and allot of reading I think I remember somebody saying that you can pitch slurey from a batch as the starter yeast in your next batch? How is this done? I am bottling a batch of IPA I...

Guys, I have been looking for something to use the 5 L kegs on my fride system, has anyone used this one? Jeff TBC50-ACC EdgeStar Mini Keg Beer Dispenser Accessory Kit

I am still hunting for a mini keg system that I can hook to my standard co2 fridge system, has anyone used this one? I can make my own but this might not be a bad idea, can use it portable and looks like I can easily convert to a standard system.

Ok i know this subject has been brought up before and I will agree that a corney is the better way to go, but for me right now and my fellow brewer I would really like to setup a 5 liter keg system. I have read about this for weeks all over the web and have looked at the party star and all the...

Hey, I am new to using starters, I used the wyyeast propogator and it worked great, I might not have time to get to the store and was wondering if I can use the munton package, I have been using a half gal growler and about 2 cups of light dry extract, like it calls for on the wyyeast...

Guys, I have not kegged yet and I picked up a couple of coca cola corney kegs, they have pin style locks and the part that i am a little boggled on is that there is no pull ring style relief valve, so I am wondering how to purge the air out with the co2 after I fill it. my only thought was to...

Hi, We are new to homebrew, i see that kegging seems to be the way to go instead of dealling with bottles, i do have a big ? can you rack a 5 gal corney with 2.5 or 3 gal and then bottle the rest? i do realize you have to change the % of priming sugar but I am wondering how the beer will...