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I can't seem to find a leak in my kegerator, it is somewhere near the regs though. I have even turned the two regs down to zero, turned on the gas to pressurize the HP gauge and then shut it off. A few hours later it has lost some pressure. I've been squirting soapy water all over but can't...

Has anyone use these check valves that hook right into ball/pin lock disconnects? Quick Disconnect Check Valve Quick Disconnect Check Valve [QD Check Valve-04C03229IH] - $8.49 : The CHI Company, New and used beverage equipment for Homebrewing, Home winemaking, Soda systems and used Pepsi...

I've got a 3L lager starter that I put in the fridge on Friday that I was hoping to use tomorrow. Currently the starter is cloudy but there is a good bit of yeast on the bottom. This was my first lager starter but I gave it a few days at room temp and there were marks on the glass from where...

I seem to go through Taylor thermometers from Target at a rate of one every month or two, I've had both the probe and the base unit fail. Sometimes the base gets wet sometimes it just dies. I'd like to get something more robust with a probe that I can put in the brew kettle. I use a few...

Has anyone tried the Mikkeller Koppi, a "Coffee IPA"? It's a good beer and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to get coffee into a pale beer? Brewing a pot, either hot or cold, would throw the color off too much. Could I soak the coffee beans or grounds in the secondary for a...

I might have to pump out one or two batches in late May with less than a week to work with, I'm looking for yeast that in general can ferment a 3-5% beer and be kegged up in that time period. I will have time to make starters. I am not sure if I will have temp control so the yeast may need to...

I hate posting really open ended questions but I am stuck figuring out all of my options. Basically I am in the process of opening a nano-brewery but in the mean time I am showcasing corny kegs of my beer at events to get the word out. Now I might have an opportunity to participate in a pretty...

I have a few extra kegs than I always need and I was wondering what the best way to store them for a few months was since I had a few get a little funky on me. I had been cleaning them with B-Brite, emptying them and closing them up. Should I be leaving them filled, sanitizing them or...

I've read a lot of posts about fast carbonating kegged beer so I thought I'd post my notes after kegging two batches back to back. Each batch was about to 4.5 gallons. Both were cooled to 38 degrees and the CO2 was hooked up to the longer tube so the gas went through the liquid. Regulator was...

I'm planning to make a beer with a light juniper flavor, I was doing some test runs of juniper tea just to get the quantity right and the crushed berries scorched onto the side of a small non-stich pot and a larger stainless pot. I tried scrubbing the stainless and soaking the non-stick but no...

Anyone know where I can get a really big funnel? I have a 6" one and it easily overflows when I am draining the wort with trub into the fermenting bucket.

I've wanted to experiment with juniper berries in my beers but have gotten advice that they are easy to over-do. So yesterday I boiled 1 gallon of water for 15 minutes with one whole berry and couldn't taste anything. I did the same with one crushed berry (they looked dry on the outside, but...

I brewed a berliner weisse a few months back, I used the wyeast seasonal berliner weisse blend. Recipe was standard for the style, 3lbs of wheat malt, 3lbs of pilsner, .25oz of spalt and a 15 min boil. The beer was decent, I think next time I'll use separate bacteria and yeast to get more of a...

Yesterday I brewed a sort of English brown ale/light brown porter and when I measured my gravity it was much higher than expected, BeerAlchemy gave me 95% efficiency. Post boil gravity was also higher so it wasn't just one bad reading. When I was mashing in I screwed up the temp calculation...

I've been reading a lot of threads here since I was having problems with my kegged beer being very under-carbonated even after a month carbonating with the "set and forget" method. There have been lots of suggestions on how to fix that, some of which worked for me. I was wondering how the...

I've been having this problem over and over with my kegging. I put a keg in the kegerator and hook it up to a line at 12psi. I check each week and the beer is pouring flat until it has been in for about a month. I just bled off one keg and hooked it back up to the gas line, I could hear it...

I brewed a high-gravity Christmas ale (1.080) with Wyeast 2112 (Cali Common) and have had an interesting fermentation. I didn't make a starter even though it was old yeast (my bad). Fermentation took about 3 days to finally start, then it seemed to be going pretty steady. I check on the beer...

A friend who works at a local bar was able to get me a 4-tap keg cooler that kicked out on them about a month ago. For the price I figured I could find some way to get it working and use it for cold crashing and maybe some serving. It fits 4 full size kegs and at least 8 cornies. I've...

I was brewing a wheat doppelbock in early May and experimenting with keeping the lid loose to get some effects of open fermentation. At the end of primary fermentation the beer got infected but I decided to stick it out and see what came of it. I transferred it to secondary and a pectile...

I've got a slow leak in the pressure relief valve on my beer gas regulator (a nitrogen reg). Is there some adjustment I can make to it to get it to seal up better? For the record it is this reg: http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=300