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The recipe is normally 18 lb of Maris Otter for 15 gal of session beer. I'll increase the grain to 24 lb for the "no sparge". The mash tun is a Sanke keg (15 1/2 gal) so I'm limited to 13 gal of mash water. After an hour, recirculate and drain to 2 boiling kettles (14 gal capacity, each)...

They re-done their web page and it looks like the minimum is a 10 lb bale. Now, I'm a hop head but even that is too much. Can't even see how to order a 10 lb bale. I've sent them an email but thought you guys would know the score. The last order I placed was back in 2013. I usually order...

Yo, On the non-adjustable model, can you take the mill apart and then put the driven roller where the stationery roller was (and vice versa)? Or, if not, can you flip the rollers 180? Also, the shaft that extends (for a hand crank or pulley) - is that one long shaft or is it in 2 pieces...

I've a 1950's wood lathe. It's powered via a belt to a 1/2 HP capacitor motor. On the motor and on the lathe there is a nest of 4 pulleys. The belt is on a 1'' pulley on the motor and, up top, the belt goes around a 3" pulley on the lathe. This reduces the speed of the lathe from 1750 to...

We visited the Front Street Brewery in Wilmington, NC. Usually I would go for an IPA but they had "Swamp Lager" (4% abv) on sale and it was black so I gave it a try. Man! It was so delicious I stuck with it for the rest of our stay. The brewer says it is based on Caraphils and Dark...

Just got a 3" tower and preparing to install on my fridge. A 3" hole would be nice and roomy for the beer lines but I'm thinking of just going with a 2" hole. That would be plenty for the hoses (wrapped in that foam stuff for pipes): It would be difficult to drill a 3" after I've drilled a 2"...

It took a total time of 2 hr and 20 min to cool two 10 gal batches down to 65F. Surely I'm doing something wrong, but what? I use a DIY 1/2" immersion coil (can't remember if it is 25' or 50', but it is massive) Another cooling coil (I think 3/8", from the home brew store) is used as a...

My dear dad sent me these from the home country. Apparently, he saw them in an antique shop and immediately thought of his favourite son in the colonies. OK, so how can I get it to work w/o buying a gold-plated beer engine. These are the real deal in brass - the pump arrangement weighs 6.6...

First off, I've been using cornies for fermentation for years with no problems. Many, many advantages. However, I was down at my local home brew store store chatting to one of the guys (they are very knowledgeable about brewing). He says that the geometry of a corny is all wrong - it is too...

Well, I'm excited to make my first brew in this. I'm planning on 15 gal so I need a decent sized blow off tube. Will that do the job? Ha! Criticisms welcome. It's 1 1/2" Sch 40 PVC piping from Home Depot. Inexpensive and fun to work with. The long pipe is connected to a threaded...

If you have never taken your ball valves apart you may be in for a shock. I took off the handle and unbolted one side and soaked one overnight in a hot PBW solution, valve partially open. Next day, it still looked dirty. So I unbolted the "handle shaft" (dunno what it is called), pulled it...

Hi folks, I'm thinking of getting myself a March pump for Christmas and I'm going through the process. Do you fill the boiling kettle with wort through the boiling kettle's ball valve? Cheers!

Hi folks, The wife is dragging me down to New Bern, North Carolina. Doesn't look like they have any microbreweries but is there anywhere that serves some decent beer? Cheers!

From what I have read, when you fly sparge, you should adjust the infeed of sparge water so as to maintain about 1" (or something like that) of water above the grain bed. Why not just introduce sparge water as fast as possible (without disturbing the grain bed). Doing so would surely prevent...

Hi Folks, We're up to see Monticello tomorrow for a couple of days and was wondering if anyone has recommendations for real colonial taverns. Priority list: 1. The atmoshere of a real tavern 2. Fairly quiet 3. At least one drinkable beer on tap (ie not Bud, etc) 4. Fairly edible food...

This month's BYO magazine has a big article on "Homebrewing cask ales - serve homebrew as real ale" Can someone explain to me the advantage of this. Why can't you just force carbonate as usual in a regular corny but with a lot less CO2 and then serve it by gravity with a minimum additional...

Cornfused. This is the recipe for Wheat beer from the July 2011 of BYO. It should have a OG of 1.049 and FG of 1.012 (with Wyeast 3944) Instead I used Flanders Golden (Wyeast says gives an attenuation of approx 70%, ie in this recipe down to 1.015). It has been fermenting for 9 days at...

Can't seem to find a supplier of leaf hops in bulk (one pound quantities). I had been happy with hopsdirect.com but earlier this year they sent me 3 lbs of brown hops. I was not pleased and they did not even reply to my (polite) email. So I would rather not deal with them again. However...

This is really starting to irritate: I've been trying the big SS tea balls (holding 1 ounce of pellets) to dry hop the keg. First pint is awesome, the next 39 are bland - zero aroma. Now the latest: on my last kegging, it seems the tea ball has opened up at the bottom of the keg and...