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Hi, I have a homemade temperature controlled fermentation chamber, which holds up to 4 fermentation buckets or carboys. It comes with the pictured Better Bottle carboy and airlock, $20 takes everything. Local pickup only in Baltimore city, near Patterson Park. It has a Mypin TA4 temperature...

Unfortunately I haven't had time to brew for quite a while at my place--been getting my fix at a friend's house, where cleanup is much easier. So, basement's getting full and wife's getting angry. All prices are OBO, vastly prefer local pickup for the lower hassle factor. Now, on to the...

I just ordered 4 kegs from cornykeg.com for a friend's kegerator build. Unfortunately, the mini-fridge that I'm using will fit the narrower Pepsi-style kegs, but not the Coke-style kegs (converted to ball lock) that my own kegerator is using. By the time I realized my error, Cornykeg had...

Just finished transferring a couple of kits...one from primary to secondary, the other from secondary for a new carboy for stabilizing/fining/degassing. Incidentally, their sensitivity to oak-chip clogging and the need for 3-handed operation convinces me that auto-siphons are the tools of Satan...

Hi, I've made a few batches of Welch's Concord grape juice wine based on Yooper's recipe, and while I certainly didn't expect to get anything world-class, I was both pleased by the results and interested in how I could improve them. I'm intrigued by the idea of tweaking the recipe to make a $1...

Until I got into homebrewing, the only experience that I had with mead was at a renn fair, where I found it to be a fairly boring drink. Fast-forward to when I start brewing, and after several batches of beer I decided to give a try to other fermented beverages. I made a batch of JOAM...

OK, so you want to get better control over your fermentation temps, since it's the middle of winter and your basement is getting down to 50 degrees overnight, but you don't want to spend lots of money on a brew belt, fermwrap, or "Son-of-fermentation"-style chamber with heater. Maybe wrapping...

Hey, Recently I've been trying to refine my homebrewing, and am in the process of putting together some basic temperature control for my fermenter, and growing starters (I always used smack packs or dry yeast before). Anyway, like a good novice, I went out and got a "starter" starter kit...

Brewed up a batch of pumpkin ale, racked it onto the yeast cake from the previous brew, left it in primary for a month, and this is what I found when I cracked it open: While it tastes a little funny, I didn't spit it across the room. Under the surface it looks normal. I skimmed most of...