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I hope this is a good place for this post. I have come into 2 Miller Coolmate 4 welding system coolers. Anybody know how cool these things can get their coolant? Do they have any value for jacketing a fermentation tank? Or perhaps to run coolant for wort chilling?

My Ranco died a couple days ago after about a year and a half of use. It threw up the "E2" error code which by all accounts on the net is fatal. I tried everything I could find online but, it proved to be futile. So with that I swapped it our for a Love controller and am moving forward. I'm...

Dear Local Home Brew Store Owner, I have been brewing now for four years, and have been coming to your store that whole time. I have noticed in that time that your business has really declined. I want to continue to give you my business, but you are making it difficult. Let me offer you a...

Any idea where I can get a stainless hose barb to put in place of the two posts on a corny keg? I've checke both McMaster and Grainger and can't seem to find anything. Any other ideas?

I'm looking for a bit of an education here. What gives beer a creamy malty flavor? I've seen several recipes that call for different adjuncts like corn, wheat, or oats. Additionally, it there a different ration of malt to hops that should be observed? I'm asking because I am a bit of a hop...

I need a little help from the brain trust on this one. I have purchased a carbonator pump system for soda serving and was struck with an idea. Would it be possible to connect the water out of the resivoir to a corny keg thereby having a complete 5 gallons of carbonated soda. Then hooking the...

A good part of me understands that the reason most people use the wood collar on their freezer conversion is because it is a simple readily available method. Another part of me wonders what other methods of collar construction might exist. I'm looking to put a collar on my freezer, but am less...

I switched brewpots a few batches ago and have had a serious boil off problem. What I want to know is if I can boil with the lid partly over the wort. Will that cause issues with DMS or will I be ok if I leave a 1/3 to 1/2 of the pot open.

FYI to anybody interested. Home Depot has a "special buy" on a Magic Chef 10 cubic foot chest freezer for $269. I've had my eyes out for a few months and this price seems pretty good to me. I just test fit some cornies, and it will hold 6 with room to spare, and then there is the hump area...

So i peeped into my minibrew 5 gal. on Sunday and the krausen was very dense and firm looking. So much so that I felt like I could pull it out whole. There are no off odors, white patches or other funky stuff. I just has a thick pizza dough look to it. The batch was a 7 day old all grain...

I am wondering, with all of the skill available on this board, shouldn't it be possible to redesign a 5 gallon "keg" so that 4 would fit into the Sanyo fridge? Here is my idea: weld a square tube to a volume of 5 gallons, add an opening for a corny lid, and attach the posts. I know this is...

I currently do 5 gallon batches, AG and am looking to build a little brew sled for myself. For reasons of simplicity and cost I'd rather use kegs than pots for this setup but am wondering if there is a maximum size preference for this type of thing. Specifically, there has got to be minimum...

How much vanilla extract should I add to this malt bill to get a nice vanilla flavor? 6.00 lb Caravienne Malt (22.0 SRM) Grain 75.0 % 1.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 18.8 % 0.25 lb Black (Patent) Malt...

Not knowing if announcing your first all grain batch is mandatory or optional, I better make it known just to cover my bases. Hopefully everything goes well. Thanks to all of the great info you brewers put on this site. It's amazing this much knowledge is free.

I'm in Appleton WI and I'm replacing my gas hot water heater soon. Anybody interested in it for parts? Let me know.

I just picked up a Coleman Xtreme with the drain located down in a recessed channel and was wondering if i even need a manifold? I am thinking of a metal plate or mesh screen over the tunnel rather than the manifold, and I plan to batch sparge. I feel like i have just defined a false bottom...

I notice a lot of guys post links to recipes they make and they are hosted on a personal site or blog. Well, if you're using wordpress, you should really give this Beerxml plugin a try. I have been using it for a couple of months and think it is pretty slick. The nicest part about it is that...

Ok I made up some 1500 watt heat sticks and really like them. Much better than the cold garage here in WI. I added a few of my own touches that really dress them up. Before I went for the first batch I tested my electric stove and heat stick, and my water topped out at 200 degrees (6 gal)...

I got a really sweet deal on a welder and picked it up. I'm thinking of building an extract sculpture were I can have everything in one neat package; burner, igniter, plate chiller, pump, etc.. Has anybody seen or heard of such a thing? Also, what would you put on yours if you made one. I...

Well, the first batch is in the fermenter, and nothing is doing. I cooked on Friday and sometime my temp dropped to about 67 and all activity stopped. I tossed a small heater in the room and the temp got back up to 73 and activity started back up again. Before bed, the bubbles were coming...