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Kenmore Elite 24.9 cu. ft. Chest Freezer (1658) I have a chance to pick one of these up for $150 and the thing looks brand new, even though its 3 years old (one owner with original paperwork, hardly used) my question is can you use these freezers with digital t-stats, or should you stick...

I wanted to start a new thread about pumps since the “new replacement for march pump” thread is now going on 50 pages and is merely a battle (sometimes contentious). I really feel for some larger batch brewers (such as myself) the March 809 is underpowered, same with the chugger...

I was wondering if you can mix your own beer gas if you have seperate nitrogen bottle, and a co2 bottle, or would it be best to have one of them filled by a supplier with premixed beer gas? if you can mix your own how would one do that? or can you lightly carb then push with nitro? whats...

picked up a nice keg for a keggle conversion, but it is about 3/4 full of skank beer, whats the best way to get this out without a sanke tap and without taking a skank beer shower?

i know heat destroy magnets, can you boil the PTFE magnetic stir bars? making a starter and have everything but have been dropping stir bar in after cooling as to not expose to high heat, but someone told me you can just boil them too. can you?

I have to brew in 2 days, and i don't have the yeast yet for the belgian trippel SG 1.081. i don't think i have time to make a starter, my question is can i just buy more vials of the yeast and directly pitch it? anything to be cautious about here or anything i should do for this case? I'd...

So i pitched into my yeast starter last night and put it on my recently ebay purchased magnetic stir plate for 30 bucks, everything looked great. i woke up this morning and checked on it and the temperature of the starter was ~85?!?! i felt the magnetic stir pate and that SOB was hot as hell. is...

I'm trying to setup a portable draft system and have a bunch of regulators, and gauges lying around for co2 and nitrogen, i was wondering if you can use any regulator and gauges for beer dispensing, or are the regular beer stuff everyone sells special in some way and you should only use those...

i have a heffe recipe which calls for 6.6 lbs of wheat LME (55% wheat malt and 45% barley malt) i can only find 65%/35% in LME. I was thnking about switching to DME where i can find the 55%/45% but i was wondering what is the difference between the two (65/35 vs. 55/45) regarding flavor profiles...

After racking to my kegs i force carbonate and put into my kegerator, then from their i either leave it in keg and distribute form there or bottle using BM methods for bottling from kegs. my question is after refrigerating the beer in the keg and its all carbed up adn good to go, if i put it in...

I pour through a screen in my funnel and into my carboys but i was thinking about building a device similar to one i saw on midwest supplies. The Stainless Steel Mix Stir :: Midwest Supplies Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies what do people think about "whipping" wort for aeration sure beats...

I have a recipe for a honey wheat ale probably going to turn it into 2 different fruit flavors in the end but was wondernig about some modification to the recipe i was pondering. the recipe is this 2 lbs. Honey 4 lbs of Canadian Wheat syrup 0.25 lbs. Carafoam 1 oz. Liberty Pellets...

1.) what kind of DME should you use for a yeast starter? same as in recipe, or is there a universal DME to use? 2.) why not use some of your actual wort and pitch whole starter next day? 3.) do you really need a starter with smack packs?

i recently brewed a red ale and a pale ale and both came out great and taste great so not many complaints, only thing i noticed was the head on them doesn't last very long. i have them kegged on CO2 and everything comes out all frothy and beautiful on top at first but shortly there is no head...

i was just wondering your thoughts on the best method for transferring wort from the brew kettle to the fermenter, i have been pouring it through a mesh strainer and letting it catch what it can and for good aeration. i see others whirlpool and rack from the kettle, and saw others actually...

is there a better way to end up with 5 gallons of beer at the end of the brewing proccess? between racking from primary to secondary, and then racking from secondary to keg, and all the hydrometer samples i only end up with 4.1-4.2 gallons of drinkable beer in the end. Can you just start with...

well a couple questions, first i measured the correct ammount of star san as recommended should the sanitizer be slightly cloudy? also when items come out of the sanitizer should it be slightly filmy/slimy from the sanitizer? also i sanitized my keg before racking from secondary and i...

so i have a blonde ale and a red ale in my kegerator @ 36 degrees, i expected the pressure difference would cause the airlock to suck back some of the vodka i had in it but i've refilled them twice now and when i check in the morning they are empty again! should i just cap the carboy with a...