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So I am in the process of planning out a fermentation chamber build and have a question to those who have made their own fermentation chamber. What thickness of pink foamboard is doable for a fermentation chamber? Is 1 inch thickness to thin for side walls of a fermentation chamber? I...

I'm currently on winter break from college and finished up a couple of brew sessions in my garage in this hot and humid weather of SE Minnesota. :cross: During this last brew session I noticed that my brew space in the garage is lacking in both space and permanent aspects. This got me thinking...

Greetings and Salutations Home Brewers, So I have a Red Ale that has a peculiar after taste to it. Might be an infection but I think its a mutation to the washed yeast I used. The beer finished at 1.008 instead of 1.012 with the Wyeast 1968 I had washed from a previous batch. Beer looks...

Forgive me if this has been discussed before but my 1/2 hour of searching the forum provided no information. This spring I inherited a fridge from my grandparents (5 year old Estate model) and promptly turned it into a kegerator for my garage. Love the thing... no more bottling for me :D...

Hey Guys and Gals, My neighbor has these listed on craigslist and I thought I would be a nice neighbor and post them here as well. He has 2 5gallon Better Bottles with Better Bottle SimpleFlo Valve and Racking Adapter (together, these comprise the spigot) and Northern Brewer thermometer...

Greeting Brewers, So I inherited a couple of Pre-hopped Beer Kits from my brother that he had laying around his basement. He has gotten into wine making more in the last few years and the kits he gave me are styles that he is not interested in making. 1st Kit: BeerMakers Premium...

Hello Fellow Brewers, My apologies if this topic has been brought up before, I couldn't find any reference of this topic when I did a search. Has anyone done ever done a yeast washing with citric acid before? If so, How did you do it? The reason I ask is that I saw a brief mention of...

Greeting Everyone, I just finished making a 45 foot immersion chiller out of 1/2 in copper, not the greatest soldering job I have ever done but there are no leaks. I was wonder if there is anything I need to do to the chiller before I use it tonight. I scrubbed it with a nylon bristle...

My son (& wife) asked me today what I wanted for Father's Day this year. I've been so busy that I kinda forgot that Father's Day is coming up. So in order to give them some ideas of what they could get me, I figured I would start a thread and see what all of you want for Father's Day (or...

I was searching around craigslist this morning and came across this posting... http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/for/1675734701.html _________________________________ Electric Nano Brewery - $4200 Date: 2010-04-04, 7:34AM CDT Reply to: [email protected] All...

Hey Guys and Gals, i need a substitution for a substitution, I'll explain... I want to Brew up this Quaffable Irish Red Extract recipe, https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f65/quaffable-irish-red-extract-55441/ next weekend but my LHBS is missing a couple of grain ingredients. My LHBS doesn't...

Greetings Everyone. I am looking for some critiquing/feedback on this Mild Recipe that I created so that I could use up some Kent Golding Hops before they go stale and a few other ingredients that I have on hand. Redbeard's Mild Ale (Extract with Grains) 4 lbs Light LME (late...

Morning Fellow Brewers I got a recipe that call for the following hop schedule: .8 oz Willamette, 90 minutes .4 oz Fuggle, 20 minutes .4 oz Fuggle, 0 minutes The two questions I got are; 90 minutes seems a bit long to me, How much IBU will I lose if I switch the Willamette schedule...

I've notice in some clone recipes that it calls for x.x pounds of DME and x.x pounds of LME. Is there a problem with doing all LME for a recipe instead of both DME and LME? I know that it matters if the recipe calls for a darker/wheat DME along with a lighter LME or vice versa. But...

Greetings and Salutations Fellow Brewers, After a few rounds of homebrew, my good friend has asked me if I could make a clone for his all time favorite beer; Sue Bee Honey Ale. He is from the Sioux City, IA area and regularly enjoyed this tasty brew from the Fourth Street Brewing Co back in...

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-20000-pints-of-beer/ Interesting step by step write-up based upon the Adnams Brewery of Southwold, Suffolk. Pretty basic in the write-up but the pictures are really nice to see how the big brewers do it. There are a few other beer related...

Hey Guys and Gals, I am looking for opinions as to what liquid yeast I should use for Oktoberfest Ale that I am brewing up Friday Night. The recipe I am copying is a traditional lager style and calls for a Wyeast 2124 (Bohemian Lager) or a WLP830 (German Lager). But since I don't have...

Can anyone direct me to a clone recipe for Red Hook Late Harvest Autumn Ale. Bought a 12 pk on a whim for Labor Day weekend and, not only myself, but a few of my neighborhood home-brewers would love to make a version of this. I tried searching this site and the web and found nothing. All...

Hey Everyone, I need your input on this idea I brewed up this weekend while partaking of a few our our creations with my next door neighbor. We were discussing about adding a 2nd fermenter to our systems and what we should get, glass carboy, plastic better bottle carboy or another 6.5 gal...

Morning Everyone, I stumbled upon a partial-mash recipe for an Irish Draught Ale while searching the internet for my next homebrew project. I like the ingredients that are listed and think it will make a pretty tasty social beer, but my LHBS does not carry a couple of the ingredients. These...