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I have many liquid ball lock connectors and not enough gas connectors, can i swap them? thanks,

So i have a party coming up in two weeks. I have six kegs that i plan to be serving. They are all very clear beer at room temp but they have chill haze when served. So i would very much like to get rid of the chill haze within the next two weeks. I have gelatin and polycar on hand. I believe...

Any one had twisted tea before? Its a malt beverage that has almost no sweetness and is tea flavored. No carbonation either. I would like to make a clone for a friend that doesnt drink beer. heres what i am thinking. Make some tea in a carboy ~ 5 gallons. I am thinking either Sun tea or cold...

So i just mashed in the following beer 6lbs pilsner 4 lbs pale 1 lbs carapils 2 lbs flaked maize I am trying to make a very light beer to play beer pong and the like with for a bunch of BMC drinkers. Trying as light as i can with as little flavor as i can. Prolly should have gone all...

I believe that the Wyeast 1010 American wheat yeast strain came from a Koelsch brewery in Germany. Right? So I should be able to make a Koelsch with it. Has anyone done this? Were they happy with the results? Since it is a Koelsch yeast I should be able to ferment down to about 50 degrees F...

So I have to go to upstate NY next week for work. Lake Seneca/dresden area to be specific. Any one have any beer suggestions that i should try? I come from New England, so I've had most NE brews. Any NY brews i shold try? or anything from farther away that isnt normally available in New England...

So i was recently reading an article about making true NY style pizza and the author said that in addition to using yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae) which caused the leavening, he said to use a lactobacillicus mother in the dough in order to give it a good taste. He talked about keeping mothers...

So I have read through howtobrew.com and gotten a water test from ward labs. From readings palmer's section about water chemistry it sounds like I should only add salts to the mash. But the water used for the mash is only a portion of the total volume of the brew. Should I be adding enough salts...

So i have just started AG. Tried an american wheat. 6 lbs english white wheat 6 lbs pearl malt (kinda like maris otter) 2 oz hallertauer at 60 min (3.2 %AA whole leaf) .5 oz centennial at 5 min (9.4 %AA pellets) 1.060 OG 1.010 FG 1056 yeast at 70-73 *F finished fermenting in...

I just got a scratch and dent refridgerator to use for storing all my beer and supplies. I want to put at least two faucets on the outside of the door. anyone have any particular recommendations as to which one i should get. Does a creamer faucet make a big difference? or should i get the...

I just filled a keg with beer, pressurized and a very fine spray of beer coming from the 'out' valve. I just put on the fitting so it filled the line rather than spraying all over the floor. So, i imagine the spring that pushes up the little metal piece to seal the valve needs to be...

I want to make a clone of DFH 90 min this week and the recipes call for 1.6 or so lbs of amber malt. what does everyone use when a recipe calls for amber malt? munich? MO? something else? Is there actually amber malt that i just havent see before? thanks

I just finished my first all grain batch. It was a Fat Tire clone. It went more or less pretty well. I just had a little problem with sparging. When i did this recipe, i adjusted for about an efficiency of 50% because it was my first all grain. When sparging, my last runnings were 1.030. that...

so some of you may remember me being frustrated by my local water department's lack of cooperation. i got a test done by ward labs. it is attached below. So i have read palmer's section on RA and such and i believe i understand it to some extent. now my questions. my water is most closely...

I just went to the water department for my town and asked them for the following: calcium magnesium bicarbonate sodium chloride sulfate pH They said they didnt test for these things. They did test for ClO2 and chlorites but thats the closest thing. My town's consumer cofidence report...

So i am just starting out in AG and i went to the brew shop to buy some base malts in bulk. I asked for pale and he said he had maris otter and pearl. i said i would take the pearl. Now doing some research i think that i actually wanted american 2 row, not pale malt. (or is it the same...

Ok, so i am brand new to brewing. this is my second batch. I understood that bottling was time consuming so i invested in kegging equipment right away. My Hefeweissen just finished in primary and i am trying to keg it. I bought three used kegs from sabco. They were shipped pressurized. Sabco...

I just bought the True Brew porter kit and comparing it to other recipes it seems a little weak in comparison. 3.3 lbs dark LME 2 lbs dark DME 6oz chocolate malt 8oz malto-dextrin 1oz cascade hops Is there any way to help this recipe at all? This is only my second batch so i dont have...

If i needed to use some but not all the hops that come in a package, what is the best way to store them? Is it worth even bothering? Thanks

My LHBS only had LME but i had a recipe thats called for DME. The guy said that its not a one to one substitution. So if i wanted to replace 1 pound of DME with LME how much would i use? 1.5 lbs? Also, does anyone know the volume measure of DME and LME by weight? like cups/lb? Finally, is...