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Hi all, My generic copper immersion chiller died a while back and I'm looking to replace it. I've been eying plate chillers and found someone on here mentioned dudadiesel.com and their exceptionally affordable chillers. Right now I'm looking at either the 10 plate or 20 plate and trying to...

So I brewed a batch of beer for a St. Patrick's day party yesterday, but to keep it cheap I kind of made it a kitchen sink beer to use up stuff I had left over. In addition to roasted barley (which I didn't weigh), I threw in maybe a half pound of caramel 120, caramel 60 and a bit of victory and...

I'm getting rather tired of my 7.5 gallon pot boiling over, and of having to try and whirlpool and extract the wort after boiling... I'm ready to take the plunge and get a better boiling setup.... Obviously I can go the keg route or the stockpot route. What I'm unsure about is the straining...

I planted 4 hop rhizomes this spring, around late april. One cascade and one kent golding are around 3' high and looking good. The magnum never did much more than a little bud. My other cascade though, it never seemed to grow, despite it's buddy growing like mad. So tonight I look out and...

Well last night I smacked my yeast, one of the XL smack packs, planning to brew today. Then my son had a bout of heatstroke and we spent the afternoon in the er instead. So now I'm brewing tomorrow and my smack pack is very swollen. Should I just leave it until tomorrow? I'm tempted to make a...

Well, I'm ready to try a clone of Rogue's Morimoto Imperial Pilsner. It should be pretty simple, as they only list 4 ingredients (belgian pilsner malt, sterling hops, water and czech pilsner yeast). Here's what I've got: 16 lbs Belgian Pilsner Malt 3 oz sterling hops (60 min) 1.5 oz...

Ok old topic, but I'm curious what everyone has noticed personally on the difference in their beers using whole or pellet hops. I've been doing whole hops on the last few batches and I'd guess, though I can't really say for sure, that my dry hopped beers have had much nicer aroma from the whole...

I've done 3 all grain batches so far and they've turned out great (with my ghetto rigged cooler even), but I'm trying to refine my water amounts since all 3 batches have missed my target 5.5 gallon batch size and thus changed up the gravity of the beers. One thing I'm curious about is how...

I have four kegs, two of which I got a the LHBS and have been working out great. The other two I got off of eBay and for reasons I can't figure out, it's about impossible to get a disconnect on or off of them. To get them on I had to tap them down with a hammer, but then of course trying to get...

Ya know, since I started homebrewing about a year ago, I've been drinking substantially more. I generally have 1-2 beers a day, whereas in my pre-homebrewing days I had 1-2 drinks a week. I figured since I've been drinking more, I'd develop a tolerance. But it seems my genetics are stacked...

Anyone tried this beer out? I don't think it's widely distributed, I only had one since I was in portland for a few weeks and saw it on the menu at $12 a bottle. You figure that at $12 a bottle, it's just something you have to try... Unfortunately I only managed to drink maybe $5 worth...

I'd like to bottle up a few beers from a keg, my understanding is that I can do this by just dispensing into the bottle and adding some carb drops. I normally add 5 tabs for an uncarbonated beer, any idea how many it will take for a beer that's already carbed and kegged? I'm thinking maybe 2?

I'm planning on doing my first all grain batch this weekend and I'm trying to make sure I've got my volumes worked out... Recipe has 17 lbs of grain (yowsa!) and I'm planning a final post boil volume of around 5.75 gallons doing a single infusion mash with batch sparging. With a ratio of 1.25...

I just bought 2 more kegs on eBay and the out posts have an odd star shaped pattern. My other kegs, and the inputs on these, have normal bolt style 6 sided posts that I can get off with a wrench. I can't get these posts off to save my life. I see online they sell sockets with this shape, but I'd...

So I was at the store the other day and saw a bomber of Rogue Daddy's Little Helper Malt Liquor. Now, I don't know about everyone else, but when I see a bottle that says 'Rogue' and 'Malt Liquor' on it, that's just something I'm going to have to buy. My wife and I popped it open and skipped...

I've dry hopped my first beer, a pale ale, by tossing some pellets into the carboy. After 2 days, I now seem to have a few mm of oil sitting on top of my beer. I assume this is normal since the whole point is to extract the oils and aromas from the hops, but I'm not sure what to do with it. When...

I did the caramel cream ale and then pitched a pale ale onto the yeast cake from that, no problems so far. Now, I'm ready to do a porter, can I reuse the yeast cake again? The yeast has had beer sitting on it for 3 weeks now, is that pushing it? Should I toss it and get some fresh yeast, or can...

Does anyone know how long star san remains an effective sanitizer after it's been mixed up with water? We use a lot of small batches for sanitizing hydometers, spoons, etc and it would save money to just keep a batch of star san mixed up in a pitcher or something and reuse it for these things...

Ok this weekend I need to do a pale ale. Ingredient wise they are all pretty similar, except the hops. Can anyone offer some tips on hops? What I'm looking for is something like Three Floyds Alpha King or our local micro brew, Columbus Pale Ale. Basically these beers are nicely balance, not...

My 3/16" tubing finally arrive and I hooked up my beverage stuff to dispense a beer. On the plus side, 5' of 3/16 tubing definately works a lot better than 2' of siphon hose :) On the down side, when I hook up the disconnect beer leaks out from the post. I managed to get a quick pour as it...