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Brewstoria is proud to present it's first Homebrew Competition the Queens Challenge. The competition will be held on October 28, 2017 at Fifth Hammer Brewing in Long Island City, Queens. Registration is open for entries, and we are actively looking for Judges and Stewards. You can...

Our September meeting will be held at 7 pm on Wednesday September 3rd at the Astoria Brewhouse located at 2850 31st Street in Astoria, Queens. We are excited to announce that our guest speaker will be the legendary Garrett Oliver. Not only is he a native of Queens, but he has been the...

This month we are meeting on April 2nd at the Astoria Brewhouse. This month we will be doing a style analysis on Category 10: American Ale. We will have a few commercial examples and quite a few homebrew samples left over from the NHC First Round Judging. As always, old, new and potential...

Hey Guys Brewstoria is excited to be hosting the FastRack Speed Challenge, and as far as we know it is the only one in the New York area. If your not familiar with the event, it is a competition to see who can fill a FastRack with empty beer bottles the fastest. We have some prizes to give...

This month we are meeting on March 5th at the Astoria Brewhouse. This month we will be visited by Queens’ newest brewery Finback Brewery. Basil Lee and Kevin Stafford will be joining us to fill us in on their brand new 20 barrel brewhouse and the amazing beers coming out of it. As always...

This month we will be meeting at the Astoria Brewhouse again. Our guest speaker will be Chris Basso from Newburgh Brewing. Chris worked at Brooklyn Brewery for six years before striking out on his own. Newburgh has an impressive beer line up, with many rarely seen styles (Gose anyone?), so...

Brewstoria's January meeting is taking place on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Following the closing of our old meeting place, we will be meeting this month at Astoria Brewhouse, located at 2850 31St Street, Astoria NY (Between 30th Ave., and Newtown Ave.) More information will be posted to...

This is going up late, but Brewstoria's December meeting is this Wednesday. (December 4th). We are doing something a bit different this month and our scheduled speaker is from an artisinal coffee roaster, Native Coffee Roasters. As usual, Brewstoria meets on the first Wednesday of the...

Hey Guys, For our November 6th meeting, we are lucky enough to have the owners/brewers from Barrier Brewing joining us and they promised to bring samples. :mug: As usual, Brewstoria meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at the 5 Napkin Burger in Astoria. More information will...

Hey Folks, I wanted to get the word out that we will be having David Katelski at our October 2, 2013 meeting. Not only is David Katelski the owner of Empire Brewing but he is also the president of the New York State Brewers Association. As usual, Brewstoria will be meeting at 7 pm at the...

I have upgraded my keezer build and I have a two tap tower for sale. The Tower is a 3 inch, polished stainless steel tower from ACU Precision Sheet Metal (search around and you find that their craftsmanship on these are top notch). The tower retails for $96 plus shipping. Also included are...

I was filling out a competition entry form for my Amber Rye, and started second guessing my self on the category. Other than the fact that it has about 20% Rye, the beer fits nicely into the American Amber Category (10b). SG, SRM, IBU all fit the style. I brewed it as an Amber, just with a...

I have a 120ft Stainless steel coil, with flared ends that have a hex nut on them to connect directly to a faucet shank. I want to put a tailpiece on the end so that I can connect it to a piece of flexible beer tube before it connects to the faucet shank. I can't seem to find anything that...

I am providing ten gallons of a single beer to an event with a good number of people. After reading countless threads on the matter, I have decided on biding a small jockey box, single tap, with a 120 ft of SS coil. I want the coil large enough to be able to handle a near constant flow of...

I have what i think is a stuck fermentation. One week ago I brewed 10 gallons of an ESB with an initial gravity of 1.058. I used the large WYEAST London Ale, but do to a screw up, I was not able to step it up. So I under-pitched. To make matters worse, it got really hot last week and I had...

I am trying to get a grasp on water chemistry and was re-reading the chapter in How to Brew on Understanding the Mash PH. As suggested I got a copy of my local water report. I am on the Catskill/Delaware aqueduct in NYC. The report can be found here. Looking at alkalinity the report...

I am putting together a keggerator and have contacted ACU about getting a stainless steel draft arm. There is a big price difference (almost twice the price) between brushed stainless and polished stainelss. I usuall prefer brushed stainless, but I am concerned how it will look next to a...

At the outset let me just state that I have done more searches than I care to recall looking for this information, but I haven't found everthing I am looking for. I currently brew 10 gallon batches, which are then kegged in cornies. It has been along time since I brewed on my stove, but I...

I am looking for a chest freezer that can hold two 6.5 gallon carboys to use for fermintation, cold crashing and lagering. I have looked around for dimiensions but I can only find outside dimensions not inside dimensions. Any help, would be appreciated. Any suggestions?

In the process of brewing this weekend I need to move beer that I brewed three weeks ago from the secondary to Kegs. It occurred to me that since both beers have been brewed with the same yeast, that i could possibly use the trub on the bottom of the secondary to pitch the beer I am brewing...