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4 brews have come out tasting like plastic. I cant seem to clean this thing so it doesn't smell...ideas??? the cap is yellow plastic rubbery like smells like burning plastic..i may use something else. errrrrr im so angry!

So about three months ago i bought a Mini-brew plastic conical. I would be very happy about it if it went for the 4 batches including a cider that have fermented in it taste like im eating lego's. I tired different sanitizers both iodine based and acid with no success. Thought i may be my water...

So with all this rain in the NE my water(well) has gotten the rotten egg smell other wise known as Hydrogen sulfide. I normal have hard water but i have a softener. ive shocked my well before using a chlorine bleach product ment for reducing the smell. Does anybody know of a filter type...

Does anybody know if the mini brew family of "plastic" conical's have any UV inhibitors...i Just got one of these and i probably should have asked first.

It just seems to work better! in the past ive waited days for liquid yeast to start fermentation... but seems every time i use you dry yeast i just pour it in, an hour or two later its chugging away... why is this? i never really given much thought ..

Just thought i chime in a say i think is really funny that even as im typing this post..there been this same advertisement following me all week on HBT..in the ad box above is reads " stop drinking alcohol, you need help click here" i just thought that was funny...... as you where before you was

what are you guys using for false bottoms/screens? and valves, im looking a weldless what are your recommendations?

its kinda cool, i would be neat if it could be restored and used again!

sears.com for 258 dollars ive been checking out all the chest freezer builds and i like the idea of the controller type similar to the johnson digital. im sure someone has got to have one of these.. should i go with the hot.cold controller?

i want to buy a controller just wondering if anyone knows where i can get one cheap online. thanks

im trying to find a AG clone for Sam Adams Pale ale...

ive never done this before i usually just keg or bottle the whole batch but ive come across some free flip top 22's...whats the correct amount of priming sugar to add to a single bottle? i want to be able to bottle a few of these 22oz ers and then keg the rest like usual..

Farm house Ale (Saison) 5#pilsen DME 1#candy sugar 1# white wheat(crushed) 1oz hallertau 1oz saaz MOss 1tbs coriander 8 black peppercorns 2gms paradise seed 1oz bitter orange my SG was 1058 and ive have had it in the primary for six days just tested it and no change at all...

So i ditched the king kooker commercial burner stand idea from cabelas, i pulled the trigger on making one on my own. turned out pretty well especially when your friend i a ninja at TIG welding. i got a question, where should i mount the pump, and i heard mounting north/south is better...