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I figured the community here would be able to appreciate the version of the Ice Bucket Challenge I did. All I could smell was my Fruit Salad Ale! Poor beer!!! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10203468548568574&id=1059037607 Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I made a yeast starter yesterday afternoon and put a foam stopper. I have used a foam stopper several times before without issue. Sometime last night, the starter must've gotten a little aggressive because the foam stopper was half out when I woke up this morning. Should I be concerned that...

Seeing the price of beer flights makes my jaw drop each time! I had found 24 five ounce tasting glasses online for 39$ and decided, I'm going to make my own. This way I can design it the way I want, and I can match the stain to my keezer. So, I was feeling ambitious one night and designed my...

Why in the world did I wait so long to build a hop spider, is the question I am now asking myself. When I first got a chiller it would always clog and be a frustrating mess. Solution? I bought a screen. Then the screen would clog and still be a frustrating mess. I tried a few different...

I am brewing a pale ale this coming weekend using WLP051 Cali V yeast. I just got a new chest freezer and temp controller for my fermentation. White Labs recommends this yeast between 66F-70F for optimal fermentation. I'm looking for opinions of those who have experience with this yeast...

I had a random thought last night and wanted to post it on here to see if it would work or not. Suppose you had 2 kegs and 3 taps. Let's say keg 1 had a pale ale and keg 2 had a stout. You wanted tap 3 to have a nice blend of both the pale and stout (Black and Tan). Would it work to take the...

I've been thinking about brewing an all grain Chocolate Marshmallow Coconut porter and have been thinking about what / when to add for the specialty ingredients. I was thinking about using some chocolate malt and adding cocoa nibs to the secondary for the chocolate flavor. I was thinking of...

I was trying to find my answer by searching google, but didn't really know how to phrase it. I brewed an ale with apple to be added. It's sitting in the primary and, at first, I was thinking of racking to a secondary on top of apple concentrate. This would of course be fermentable and my...

I just kegged and force carbed a Pale Ale at 20PSI. I went to put on the ball lock party tap and it's closed, but the beer won't stop flowing past the stopper and out onto the floor every time I hook up the beer ball lock. What am I doing wrong? Or do I have a bum tap?

I'm making a smoked brown ale tomorrow and to impart a little more smoky flavor, I was thinking of adding some cubes during the boil and possibly some more after primary fermentation if it still needs more wood flavor. I have used oak in the secondary before, but never the boil. Will adding...

Hey, I have been brewing all sorts of ales since December. I was looking at getting into some lagers, but I know that a lower fermentation temperature and more delicate fermentation techniques are usually required. I currently ferment in a closet that stays approx. 70F which is not ideal for...

Ok, there's all this talk about 12/21/12 and how the gravity is going to reverse or a meteor is going to incinerate us or an alien race is going to steal the world's supply of beer. The latter being the worst of course. So in honor of all of this negativity, I decided to make something...

Ok, I brewed an all grain coffee stout today (Sunday). OG 1.096. I made a White Labs yeast starter (British Ale) on Friday (2 days ago). I made a QT starter with 1 QT water and 1 cup of Light DME. I cooled to fermentation temp and put the starter in a gallon glass jug, pitched the yeast and...

Willing to drive to pick up, but I'm looking to start kegging. I've been brewing since December and have been enjoying craft beer since way before. I'd love to feature some brews on tap. I missed out on a four 5 gallon Corny keg, 2 regulators, 2 CO2 tanks system on Craiglist by a day. To get...