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Long time brewer, occasional soda maker. I've made a few simple soda's, I didn't put much effort into it. My daughter's first birthday is coming up and there are going to be a lot of kids there. I thought if I filled a keg with carbonated water, I could use Torani Syrups and make Italian...

I've been thinking of kegging my wine. A lot of threads I've read here say Nitrogen or Argon are best things to use, because CO2 will carbonate your wine. It totally makes to sense to me and I was about to buy a Nitrogen tank. Then I found this article...

I own a Good Humor Sub Zero Ice Cream freezer. I had a video store, the freezer worked fine for years in the store. Obviously, my video store is closed and I put the freezer into storage. I realized I could use this a huge kegerator and pulled it out of storage. I powered it up and it...

Hey guys, Long time brewer, first time wine guy. I'll try to keep this short: If I had a nitrogen system, can I keg wine without carbonating it? My family wants more wine and less beer, so I said I would start making wine. I like to bottle gifts, but keg everything else. So having...

Long time brewer, first time wine guy. My father in law bought me a wine kit, he actually got me two. The directions tell me to ferment a 6 gallon batch in an 8 gallon container. I have a Sanke Keg (15.5 gallons) that I've converted to a fermenter. Can I dump both those kits into the...

Long time brewer, new issue for me. Set up: Whenever I brew and use a new technique I brew the same beer, a SMASH. Since I've made this beer many times, I know what the beer tastes like and I can compare 'standard' versions to the experimental version. The recipe is Maris Otter...

Hey guys, Four year home grower of hops. I've always taken my leaf hops, dried them, vacuum sealed them, and tossed them in the freezer. No issues. My wife is pregnant. Doesn't every brewing sob story with "My wife is pregnant?" Anyway, she wants me to empty the freezer of all my...

Ok I know that CTZ (Columbus, Tomahawk, Zeus) are essentially the same plant- hence CTZ. I've read recently that *technically* Zeus is different than Columbus. I've got a two year hermaphrodite Zeus and I inherited a two year old Columbus. My question is, to save space- do I plant it...

My neighbor gave me a "Challenger VI" keg. It's missing the liquid dip tube and liquid out ball lock. It's clean and immaculate minus these items. I know I can buy a used liquid dip tube from here: 5 Gallon Soda Keg Liquid Dip Tube But I don't know what to ask for. I want a ball...

I put two beers in kegs. A rye pale ale and a Belgian Saison. Next week I'm camping with my family and the plan is to take the two kegs, fill a cooler with ice water, drink the beer. We'll be in Northern Wisconsin, it'll be in the 50's and with the ice water I don't think anyone will...

Long time home brewer, but I started kegging a two weeks ago. I built three Spunding Valves for up coming projects and test all of them. No apparent leaks when I spray liquid on them. If I set my keg's gauge at 10 psi, then attach the spunding valves I've built, one reads 10, the second...

I activated a smack pack then had the worst brewing day ever ending with my wort on the floor of the garage. I placed my activated smack pack unopened in the fridge. How long will it last before it's useless? I could brew a small wort tonight to give it something to eat. I probably can't do a...

3 year brewer, typically consistent on my cleaning skills, one infection to date. Anyway, I filled a glass carboy with water to clean it (outside). I got an emergency call. I left it and was out of town for a WEEK. Rain, 90 degree weather, insects floating in the carboy when I got back...

Like the thread says, when do they appear? Last year I had a lot and worked hard to keep them under control. This year I was aggressive with my grub ex but I can't recall when they started to surface. So far I'm having a great year and I'm curious if my problems just haven't shown up yet.

Besides Japanese Beetles I've been fortunate enough to never have a bug issue- so I don't have a lot of experience in this area. Anyway, today I saw a small bug, tear shaped narrow head- round butt and RED. They are not on my hops, but they are crawling through the mulch in the raised garden...

My trellis is 12.5'. My hops are about 15'. Last year I tried the trick of lowering trellis ropes and letting them grow back up the ropes. I thought it was a huge mess. I've been convinced to not cut the tips so I have these huge plants looking for some place to go. I was thinking of grabbing...

3rd year hop grower. Daily reader, regular poster. On the topic of clipping the tips, I'm neutral. My 2nd year plants are planted in a row in a raised garden. I've got a 12.5 tall trellis- it telescopes I could make it taller, but I think my neighbors would hate me (again) and I question...

Hey all, Third year suburban hop grower here. I've learned a lot, I post a lot. Set up: I have four plants on the side of my house- my neighbor a fellow gardener thought they were neat. A couple of the wives came over and asked me what I was doing- I said putting up hop strings. They...

I was at BigHops (guy at this sites) this weekend digging up hop plants he no longer wanted. He mentioned that his Sunbeam did better in the shade or at least without a huge amounts of sun. It got me thinking about my own plants. I put them in the ground lowest alpha to highest. The left...

Last week was "garbage" day in our neighborhood. Toss out all the big stuff you don't want. I took home a shiny apparently functional Sanke Keg (big one) while dumping my garbage. I've never owned one, I've only kegged one or twice with Corny's. I'm interested in converting it to...