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List of possible or known brewery house strains for reference: 3 Floyds=Wyeast 1968 Sweetwater = Wyeast 1968 Hair of the Dog = WLP 028 or Wyeast 1728 Terrapin = Wyeast 1272 Bear Republic = WLP 028 or Wyeast 1728 Anderson Valley = WLP 002 or Wyeast 1968

I have no intentions of doing this myself anytime soon, but the inability to see the inside of plate chillers has got me wondering: Has anyone ever cut open an old broken or decommissioned plate chiller just to see if anything nasty is festering in the corners or seemingly hard to reach...

The Story: Last night I hooked up the CO2 to my keg to carbonate. Much to my surprise, the beer immediately shot up in to the CO2 line--->distributor--->C02 line going to tank. I pulled the plug before it reached my regulator luckily. Apparently, I filled the keg too high and the beer was...

I noticed a small amount of white fuzzy mold near the wort openings in my therminator today. Water side is clean. Any suggestions on how to clean and prevent this from happening again? My typical clean regimen involves pumping some hot PBW solution through after brewing, rinsing with hot...

What's up with this stuff? Does it go out of season or is it just hard to find? I can't seem to find it anywhere recently. Any major differences between regular white wheat malt?...Acceptable substitutes?

I purchased a Bayou Cooker KAB4 model to heat my 15 gal. keggle. I have brewed 4 times with this setup and had decent rolling boils, although the blue flames appear to be a bit small. I brewed a 1.070 O.G. stout over the weekend (all of my previous beers have been lighter colored and between...

What's happening! After brewing extracts for about 5 years, I'm in the process of building/buying the equipment for the switch to all-grain. I'm bored with my current job(geologist) and hope to one day merge into the business of beer. I've been a member of ratebeer.com for over 6 years...