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i have read through a few threads refrencing various nat gas burners, but i was wondering if anyone had any specific vendors they would recommend? i am looking at building a homebrew stand and plan on brewing in the basement. are there dimensions i need to be aware of? i know some are 9" and...

ssia. looking for soda kegs in good repair. will pick up. thanks

so i am moving soon and i am thinking about my next incarnation of the brewery. i am an AG brewer with two converted kegs and a converted cooler mash tun. right now i am using gravity and a 3 tiered system to get from HLT to carboy. it is a pita. i am thinking since i am moving i might want...

last night i bottled an imperial stout that turned out to be neither imperial nor stout. it was crazy sticky. i am sick right now so i can't tell if it was very sweet, but i drank a little and was not repulsed by the taste so i can only assume that it was good. does sticky beer mean a lot of...

I just grabbed two shakespear stouts and one monk madness. i was hoping to harvest some of that pacman from one of them. exactly how do i do that? thanks! :mug:

anyone have any good methods of doing this at home? i have doen it beofre by using a pestal mortar type setup with a bowl and a glass, but i was wondering if there were any better suggestions out there? also i have some small amounts of speciality grians i'd love to crush, but i might have to...

i am using aluminum mesh right now for my 'DIY' hopstopper. is this a bad idea? since it is al? should i use SS? where would i get SS mesh? i looked at my local mom and pop and meglo marts, but no luck. anyway i was just tossing this out there for discussion. should i go back to AL or...

does gravity rise as you boil the wort? like pre-boil OG versus post boil OG. is there a difference? i only ask as i have recently begun taking readings. i have brewed what i thought was good beer for about a year and now i am finding i am missing my gravity by like .02-.04...'d think my...

ok folks here is my question: Is my yeast still good? here is the scenario: about four weeks ago i racked an amber ale and bottled the yeast cake into a sanitized growler with an airlock on it. i put the bottle in the basement on the floor which is about 40 degrees. the yeast was safale us...

i have a question about my trippel in its secondary stage. after hitting my target FG of 1.012, i racked over to a glass carboy for clarification as the beer was tremendously cloudy. well i started the secondary in the basement and after 48 hours the clarification had begun and the beer had...

this is a little something i put together today: what do you all think? :ban:

so i brewed a tripple a few weeks ago and tonight it hit is FG/TG of 1.013 from 1.077. its gonna be a nice stong beer. great taste, but one thing: i am only at about 19 IBUs. i was reaching for 25 or so, not sure how it happened. prolly due to inexact amounts. anyway, is there anyway to...

this thread was inspired by the other stuck fermentation thread out there. i was just wondering if, or when, you all got stuck fermentations what did you do? do you repitch yeast? can you pitch another starter of similar yeast? what do you do? discuss

After listening to james spencer's podcast on organic brewing i am wondering if it is worth it? has anyone else tried brewing an organic brew? i'm thinking, since i am an organic gardener. makes sense to me....:mug:

i brewed a beer this weekend w/ an OG of about 1.076. blegian pilsen malt straight thru. anyway we CFC'd the wort, stirred a lot and pitched safeale 33. the fermentation was vigorous enough 24 hrs later to push trub thru blowoff, but 72 hrs later there is no action in blowoff unless i shake...

is there a good way of getting whole leaf hops in a glass carboy that has been racked over already? i wanted to dryhop a few days before bottling. last time i steamed the hops and added by hand to the carboy. any better suggestions welcomed and appreciated!

so i use a converted keg as a boil vessel. the thing is i never actually have an idea how much wort i've run into my kettle. i know how much i put in my mash tun, i know how much i absorbed in the mash, and i know how much i sparged with. am i to assume that i collect the sums of these? or...

i have a keg i need the top cut off. i need a sabre saw....can anyone help? thanks

is it ok to shake up your carboy in the secondary? i have an apricot pale ale sitting on apricot puree, is it ok to swirlt this bad boy up once in a while? thanks :mug:

we brewed up a nice amber two weekends ago and today its hit its target FG. thrilled. this is rare for me that i hit target. tastes good but it hit its target! woo hoo. :mug: sorry, had to tell someone.....lol