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Not that that 3.2 beer is very exciting but it was an important date in the beer brewing world in general!!!

I apologize if this has been posted before. I could not find the thread if it has. I just finished my cooler/mashtun conversion. I could not find the correct size SS fender washer for the inside of the cooler so I substituted a zinc plated one istead. Will this work? Will it have an adverse...

Anyone else ever run into a "dry" spell where due to money/time or lack thereof, you had to let your brew equipment gather dust for a period of time while you ached in silent pain until you could fire things up again? I'm in that place right now. It is a sad and lonely place.....:(

Ok, my soon to be father-in-law works for an alcohol distributor. He has come across 1 for sure, possibly 2, oak wine barrels that he can get for free. He thinks they are 55 gal (or something close) each and in excellent condition. I'm not sure what I would use them for being that large but...

Has anyone thought of a good use for those empty Heineken mini kegs? I know they're probably usless for beer ever again but maybe someone has come up with a clever NEW use for one? Anyone......?

I've been searching the forum and have found a couple threads that touch on this subject but haven't really found a difinitive answer one way or the other. I want to build a cheap and easy manifold for my Mashtun. My question is: Will PVC hold up to mashing temps over time? Is it safe? Or should...

Well, I'm finally getting out of my crampted apartment. Me and the soon to be Mrs. found a farmhouse just outside of town with a huge yard and plenty of room for the kids to run and I can finally start the all-grain process now! Downside: I work for the cable company and currently get FREE...

Man, I've been religiously looking through craigslist in my area for over a year now hoping to find a good deal, or any deal for that matter. I finally saw some homebrew equipment in there and could not believe it! (This is a relatively small area and not very many people have the imagination...

Just found out that Sam Adams is sponsoring a homebrew contest in Sioux Falls! They are having 3 different tasting days at three different bars here from April to June and the winner will be name Sioux Falls Brewmaster (which isn't saying too much in this town, lol) plus they win a trip to the...

I'm going to be starting my path on partial mashing here soon and I have been looking for a suitable cooler to use. I've found several 2 and 3 gallon coolers at the local stores around here pretty reasonable. Some of them, however, don't seem to have very thick lids in comparison to the side...

Will mashing temps be sufficient to sanitize my 2 gallon mashtun/cooler or should I still thoroughly sanitize it before hand.

Ok, I just brewed my first batch in almost 5 months. Needless to say I had to knock a little rust off my beer brewing noggin. Anyway, I made a yeast starter on Friday evening and pitched it in my carboy on Saturday. Holy crap! I've never had a fermentation this active! Basically it's blowing...

I just bottled my English Pale Ale and sampled a bit of it in the process. Although a Pale Ale isn't supposed to be very hoppy, I was hard pressed to detect very much if any hop bitterness or aroma at all. It was an extract partial boil recipe with steeped grains where I used 1 oz of Target at...

My English Pale Ale has been sitting in the fermenter for about 6 days now and I'm really begining to wonder about something. I used hop pellets which created a sludge on the bottome of my brew pot. I used a strainer in my funnel when transfering to the carboy (which plugged up a couple times)...

I've never used hop pellets before but my next batch of English Pale Ale calls for adding two varieties. 1 oz of Target at 60 minutes and 1 oz of Kent Goldings at 1 minute. My question is do I need to strain the Kent Goldings off before the end of the boil or do I just leave them both in until...

This question may have already been asked somewhere else here so I apologize if it was. I was in St. Paul MN last weekend so I decided to swing by Northern Brewers shop and pick up a couple items (very cool place in person by the way!), one of the items being an English Pale Ale kit that came...

Ok....I was attempting to remove the syphon hose from the end of my racking cane so I could clean both after bottling my beer last night. I guess I applied a little too much force and snapped the racking cane right at the bend. Is there an easy way or trick to get the hose on and off the racking...

I've done a couple extract brews now and I'll probably do a few more before I'm ready for AG brewing but I'd like to get a reasonable grasp on the process in my head before I start AG brewing. Most of the books and articles I've found seem to jump right into the technical side of things right...

I want to make another starter for my next batch but all I have on hand is dark DME. Will this work as well as light DME or is this ill-advised?

Hello all, I'm a new homebrewer from Sioux Falls SD, not exactly a hotbed for good beer or homebrew but maybe I'll start a revolution here! lol I've already found a lot of great info here. Looking forward to learning and sharing great ideas with all of you! Dave _________________________...