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I'm going to a beer tasting with friends tomorrow. Obviously I'll take along a nice commercial bottle or two and some homebrew. That said, I'm the only homebrewer in the crowd. I thought it would be nice to also bring some hops throughout the spectrum (I think I have the hop part covered...

I kegged a beer out of my fermenter last May and then non-brewing stuff kept my mind off brewing until this month. It turns out I didn't clean my fermenter at the time. (Usually when I'm kegging I pop the airlock back on and clean it the next day, but this time my airlock ran dry.) Long...

As I was leaving the LHBS today, another customer walked in. The clerk asked the guy how he could be of assistance. The door shut behind me just after hearing the start of his answer so the only part I caught was "My tap handle just snapped off." What's the backstory on that!?!? How does...

Doing a little reshuffling and I have some items I no longer need. $70 - Drip Tray with drain and back splash. Big enough for 4-5 taps. $35 - Bench capper $40 - Single-tap tap tower Pics of items: http://imgur.com/a/DRi7E I'm open to shipping if you'll cover the costs. Short...

Dry or sweet vermouth? Canadian? Bourbon? Rye? My favorite modification is to include a splash of the syrup from the maraschino cherry jar.

Long story short, I got the deal of a lifetime on a 20 gallon system. I've brewed far more than my fair share of extract and this is my excuse to make the jump. So despite the capacity of the system, for my first all-grain batch my LHBS suggested starting with a 5 gallon batch. I picked out a...

How are you planning to cook it? I'm frying it. Don't try to tell me you don't have the burner necessary to fry it. :rockin: Are you brining?

What food do you keep at-the-ready in your home bar? The question might be more complex than it looks at first. You have to find balance in the questions of ease/longevity of storage, complexity of preparation, etc. It's also not a one-size-fits-all, as one guy might have an open bag of chips...

Anyone know anything about Land O Lakes milk for cheesemaking? The packaging doesn't help, nor does google. Anyone use it?

I have a keg that force carbed just fine (30 PSI @ 40F for about 42 hours) but now won't serve. If I leave the keg alone for a while I can get a trickle out of the faucet enough to know that it's carbed fine. After that initial ounce of beer, nothing else will come out, no matter what PSI I...

There was a notice on the back of this weeks Wegmans circular that caught my eye. Bleach is now going to be be sold (well, Clorox and Wegmans store brand at the very least) in a more concentrated form. So if you sanitize with it, you can scale back the amount you use. The rule of thumb for...

I have a four tap brewlogic keg system. I'm on my 6th keg and I can't get the thing to pour at the rate at which you'd expect beer to come out of a tap. It always just comes out extremely slowly. Tastes fine, carbonation is fine, but it probably takes 45 seconds to fill a pint glass. I tried...

I started my first hot sauce tonight. I took about a dozen cayenne peppers, made them rethink their sins in the food processor, put them in a mason jar and boiled for 20 minutes. It's sitting in a mason jar for the next 1-6 months. A dozen wasn't enough to come anywhere near filling the 16 oz...

I recently gave away a packet of yeast out of my Brewer's Best german altbier kit to a friend of mine interested in getting started in the wide world of fermentation. I'm thinking this has accidentally afforded me the great opportunity to make my first attempt at harvesting yeast from a...