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Hello All, I'm going to try to play with the chemistry of my water for the first time tomorrow. I've been brewing for about 6 years and I wanted to try another technique to really help my beer. 5 gal batch BTW. Baseline Water: Ca: 25 Mg: 6.5 Na: 19 SO4: 15 Cl: 33 HCO3: 83 Target...

Good Morning All, Yesterday my girlfriends car was broken into and her purse, wallet, ipad, and contents were stolen. Fortunately the thief used one of her cards at a gas station shortly after the break in. I was able to grab a few still of the purp... If you guys can figure out what the car is...

Good Morning All, I've been doing some research on the forums and google but wanted to run my thoughts past you guys. I brewed a Blackberry Red Ale on Friday. The White Labs English Ale Yeast WL002 was ordered with an icepack and insulated carrier but by the time it got to my house it was...

I'm preparing for an all grain set up with the circular rubbermade cooler for a mash tun. All the false bottoms on the homebrew sights look a little pricey. I looked over at mcmaster car and they have stainless steal mesh already cut in 12" diameter circles (2 for less than $15!). I bet you...

Forward: 1. I come from an engineering background... meaning I over think even the easiest of tasks. 2. I didn't want to resurrect a 2 year old thread on this topic. Question: Will taking repeated samples from the bottling spigot cause a possible contamination to my beer? I would guess...

Blueberry Wheat Ale: 6lbs Briess DME 2 oz Tettenag (60min) 1 gal Blueberry Juice Muntons Yeast Brought 5 gal of water to boil, added DME and Hops (in nylon pouch). Stirred and reached hot break. I only got a rolling boil for the second half of the boil (im on a gas stove). Flame out...

I got the first chance to test out my refractometer yesterday. It was a $25.00 one off eBay that also has a ABV% scale on it. After chilling my wort I took a reading at 16.333 (estimate) which converts to 1.067 SG. My hydrometer recorded 1.067-1.068. I'd say thats pretty close. I'm going to...

Hello everyone, I've been reading around here the past couple of days and decided to make my first post. My girlfriend got me started with a Mr. Beer kit a couple of months ago but I've been thinking about upgrading to a bigger setup that lets me start to brew larger and more diverse batches...