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Well, I'm coming to the end of my single tier 3 keggle build and now i'm imaging/visualizing a brew day and I've come into 2 possible problems, that more or less go hand in hand. My brew keggle is equipped with a diptube and recirculation port from brewhardware.com (along with sight gauge...

I just brewed a canyon cream stout.. The gravity came in a 1.065 after I had topped it off to slightly over 5 gallons. was something along the lines of 16 ounces of specialty grains @ 170F for 30 min 6 pounds of liquid malt extract @ T60 mins 1.5oz Kent Golding @ T60 mins 4 ounces of...

Thinking about adding check valves to each of my manifold lines right after my ball valves.. This is what I currently have built: Question A: Anyone have a good link for these check valves? would need 4 1/8 NPT male to female check valves.. Question(advice needed) B: I usually keg...

well.. back story: ---- its been awhile since i've brewed. My 'partner' bailed on me and I had a child and brewing got put on the backburner (well no burner). Good news -- I'm back and already got a few batches in the mix! I've stired interest among two good friends now. :ban: 5 gallon...

So I made a boo boo in my brewing. It's been awhile since I brewed and I had some old yeast sitting around. Wasn't sure of the viability of the yeast but used a 2l yeast starter on a stir plate for 48 hours. The first yeast was pacman yeast which i prefer at 65 degrees. After 72 hours there was...

I haven't seen a thread like this, forgive me if it's already posted. I'm big on a nice pic of a full glass, but a nice empty with a good lace is like a women in some fine lingerie! :tank:

So I've searched this topic and i'm finding very incosiestent results. I have a brewers best american cream ale kit laying around and I figured I'd brew up a extract kit instead of breaking out all the AG gear since my schedule is busy. Since I have the equipment I'd like to do a full boil for...

I'm doing a conceptual design for homemade conical. My plan is to take an old pony keg (the taller/skinnier style) and fashion a stainless steel cone and TIG weld it to the bottom of the keg. Kind of like what yuri did, just with a smaller keg. This should give me ~8 gallons of fermenting space...

I got a refractometer for Christmas and was doing some reading to find out that gravity readings of fermented wort are nearly useless without conversion charts. Found this out the hard way after I was baffled my beer was still at 1.029 (refractometer reading) after nearly two weeks, so grab the...

Just started grinding my first batch of grains with my corona mill. Just wanted some reinsurance on my crush. Any input is welcome. Thanks!

Much credit to Yooper, as I structured this after her house pale ale, just adjusted hops to utilize my inventory. Grains: 5lbs Marris Otter 3lbs Vienna Malt 2lbs Munich Malt 8oz Crystal 20L 8oz Crystal 60L Hops: .4 oz Magnum - 60 min .5 oz Warrior - 30 min .3 oz Simcoe - 10 min...

So I visted a local brewery today for a free tour, at the end they handed out some free items. One of which was a ziplock bag of milled grains, its powder form. I forget exactly what they said it was (too many free samples) but he presented it as adding it to food "for flavor" and you could use...

Hi guys. My freezer is getting a bit full and I'm still not the greatest at building my own recipes. I inventoried all my hops, and this is what I'm working with: Amarillo - 0.3oz Belma - 1.0lb Cascade - 0.5oz Centenial - 0.8oz Magnum - 0.7oz Simcoe - 0.5oz...

Hells yeah, 33 years ago Roger Walters brought us the wall. Certainly not one of the best Pink Floyd albums but it surely not the worst! I've certainly raised several pints to them tonight as i sit back and enjoy the movie! :mug: Certainly wish I had a lil something in a :pipe: but those...

So I did my first yeast rinse today out of my primary. I got 3 mason jars full right now. I see a little trub falling to the bottom that tells me I should rinse again. The problem I'm seeing now is the 3 mason jars have different level of yeast settling. The first one I poured into has the...

Time for mindless ranting.. I'm brewing today and my friend is nearly 3 hours late to help brew. I'll first state that I wouldn't mind brewing by myself, but its always nice to show people how to brew and have someone for the having lifting since i don't have a 3 tier system or pumps. My...

Quick question.. I have my starter crashing right now, I have a brew day for tomorrow. I was wondering if after I collected my runnings in the morning if I can throw this in a sauce pan and boil it on my stove. My boil in my kettle takes some time to come to a boil, so I figure I take some...

Well, I over estimated the size of my vessel for my yeast starter and will need to do two 1.5L starters. My brew day is sunday and I haven't started my starter. How long will it be to make my first starter, chill, decant, then pitch my second step? Hoping to pitch the yeast to fermenter sunday...

I been using mr malty for my first starter. and to use the one packet of yeast i have a i need a 4.5 growth factor. This is 2.5L. Can I start straight with that big of a starter or is do i need to step up my starters?

So, the SWMBO is planning to buy me a Erlenmeyer flask for christmas, and I happen to have one of these laying around the house. Will this work until I get a flask? I'm brewing an IPA soon and would like to make a yeast starter on my DIY stirplate.. it's a stove top coffee pot that you can...