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what is out there for kegging 1 or 2 gallon batches. someone here at my work said i might be able to us a portable garden sprayer. the one that you carry on your back and pump to spray your lawn or whatever. i may be able to rig something. do you think this would work? i have looked at...

say i let it brew and before i reach my final gravity i chill then to serve i pop the blow tube off and open up the spigot to pour a beer. upon finishing the pour i put a small scoop of DME back in the bucket and replace blow off tube and leave to warm to room temp 68 degrees say.. would this...

say your bucket is in a bedroom. is it bad to be in that room for an extended period of time?

would i be best with a round or square one? i only ask cause the square will have more surface area vs the round. does this matter? does anyone find that you have more stuck mashes in one or the other? i am looking at a 40 qt round one and a 42 qt square one and started think. so...

thing is a beast. did a 10 gallon batch yesterday with a buddy. with the large surface area we were able to do all 10 gallons with no boil overs. very nice. the spigot had a very slow drip from the threads but stopped once we reached boil temps. handles were strong enough to lift the whole 10...

so i did my experiment of mutons carb tabs and also the wand from a picnic faucet. no reason for carb tabs. the wand trick i got from here works perfect. waited about 5-6 weeks and popped open a 750ml bottle of blueberry wheat and heard the hiss. got plenty of carbonation bubbles on the side...

my beer shop has one. 70% Nitrous 30% CO2 anyone use something like this or have info on it?

herb ball packed with hops was placed in my keg today. will have first glass thursday night with friends and family. will post if i notice any aroma. hops used whole willamette. only one herb ball was used. keg is force carbing for 24 hours then bled then set back down to 10 psi for remainder...

so i bottled three 750ml bottles and kegged the rest. there was quite a bit of head space in the keg. i have a CO2 stone sitting at the bottom of the keg. i force carbed it to 24 psi and after 3-5 minutes bled out the head space. my question is should i go back after a half an hour and bleed...

extract guy who wants more head retention. so looking at flaked barley and wheat. is bottled spring or mineral water gonna work or should i go with tap? what do you all use and are adjuncts for common U.S. water really necessary?

so i have been searching around and know about Carapils and it's ability to aid head retention. I also saw how flaked wheat or barley can aid in it. My question is am i simply steeping these flakes or am i doing a mini mash with them?

want to share with some of the family back in NY. how would you go about shipping brew? just standard with foam padding or should i try to get it there as fast as possible?

gonna bottle 3 or 4 750ml bottles and then keg the rest. does 1/2 oz of corn sugar sound right to prime a irish red ale at 65 degrees. aiming for something like 1 - 1.3 of CO2 per bottle.

should i go with SS or copper? looking to spend around $130. gonna use it for 5 gal. batches but want the best one i can get incase i go to 10 gal. down the road.

say 8 lb of golden light 2 lb wheat vs 8 lb pilsen 2 lb wheat vs 10 lb wheat just trying to figure out if any benefit to doing one vs the other for a wheat brew

so thinking of trying to do a lager. i have no way of controlling the temp to be stable in a small range. i live in western washington. average temp here now is mid to high 40's during the day low 40's to mid 30's overnight. do you think i could get away with just having the bucket out in the...

using 12 lbs. LME no bittering hops Cara-pils .75 lbs or Crystal 10 .75 lbs no aroma hops 3 lbs of pureed bluberries in double mesh bag and placed in keg at kegging time what yeast for this? double pitch the WLP hefe say the 300 or should i go with a single trappist high gravity...

has anyone at flameout added already steep specialty grains, like honey malt, and found that it retains the flavor better due to the short time of heat in the wort?

i had three small glasses of my blueberry wheat the other night for the first time. man did i have a bad hangover the next mourning. could it be the hopps or the type of yeast i used. i just can't figure it out. i'll try it again later this week and see if it happens. has anyone ever...

so i just kegged this blueberry wheat. as i was using the pump siphon i noticed some little clumps get through to the keg. here is my question. if i get a clog at poring i know i can just bleed the keg and either blow the tube clear then put a bag over the end and the problem should be...