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So I bought a 10g Spike boil kettle a few months ago. I'm wondering why I didn't do this years ago. It is a fantastic kettle. I'm running on a 3-tier gravity fed system, so the next logical step is to go all stainless so I'm not having to physically move my mash, sparge, etc on brew day. If all...

I need a hand with some propane fittings. I just ordered a Northern Brewer Center of Gravity system as a space saving all grain system for my tiny place in Russia. I'm stationed here for the next year and couldn't bring my big all grain system with me. This offered me a chance to keep brewing...

I suffered a power outage while I was out of town. It killed all my beer in the kegerator, and I thought that was all the damage. Then last week I did a yeast starter with Safale 05 for a new batch. I pitched it, and got nothing after 4 days. I thought I had a bad pack of yeast. I had some...

I'm a new brewer, sort of. I've done about 20 batches thus far. I'm posting this in bottling/kegging, but it hapened twice tonight. Once when transferring to a keg, once when transferring to secondary. During the transfer from my spigot, I started to get air in the line. On the keg, it ended...

So I did a preview on an auction today and saw something that caught my eye: a twin tower with 10 Perlick faucets! So, I'm interested. Then I saw this regulator system! So now I'm really interested! I talked to the staff, and they said that the whole pallet was being auctioned off...

I'm slowly starting to assemble everything I need for all-grain brewing. In the meantime, I ordered a bunch of extract kits from Northern Brewer to keep me busy and provide me with some Christmas beer. One of these was their Winter Warmer with Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale yeast. This was started...

So I've brewed about ten batches and have never had a bad batch. I recently started kegging and had something happen the other night that concerns me. I've heard that if you splash the beer going into secondary or a bottling bucket, that you'll get the wet cardboard taste to the beer. Never...

I've got a TDD-2 that I'm trying to "pimp" right now. I have the standard two holes on a roughly 13" center. I'm looking for an 8 tap draft tower, U style, stainless or chrome, air cooled. Any condition will do. I would also consider a 6 tap tower if it had the same distance between the...

I know there aren't a lot of us, but I came across something for those of us that use Sanke kegs. CHI has a micromatic device for Sanke kegs that allows you to fill and wash without disassembling. It seems a little too good to be true. Anybody ever used this...

So I've been brewing for a few months now. I absolutely love it, and have really jumped right in. When my wife and I figured out how much time we were spending bottling, she agreed to let me get a kegerator. A little patience and some ninja skills landed me a True TDD-2 on the cheap. It came...

I admit, I'm a bad beer drinker. I haven't had a keg since college, a long time ago. I just got a True TDD-2 kegerator, and got it up and running today. So, I did what any other man would do and immediately got my CO2 bottle filled and a fresh keg of Highland Gaelic Ale. If this goes well, I'll...

I'm a n00b to brewing, but love it and and jumping in head first. I'm four batches deep and jumped the gun on buying a kegerator yesterday. Now I need help. What I have is a True commercial kegerator. It's got two cooled towers, plumbing, and a CO2 tank with a regulator. Now comes the...

I just got an opportunity to pick up a True kegorator about an hour and a half from home. It is mine if I want it, but I have to get it today. $400 for a restaurant style 2 keg double door unit. Black sides, stainless steel top. Worked when unplugged, "sounds" like it works now, and is going...

Alright, I've already gone down this road once, and I convinced myself that I was bat**** crazy. My first batch, a stout, yielded me 8%. I just thought that was cool. It was way stronger than predicted, but I added a pound of brown sugar to it so I didn't think anything of the bigger numbers...

Problem: I'm hot natured and I hate having it warm around my house. Even further, I'm a tightwad and got a high speed programmable thermostat that effectively turns the heat off at night, knocking that house down to the upper 50's while I sleep. Cold is not good for fermenting beer. I'm new...

I just did my second batch last week. I did a West Coast Blonde extract kit from Homebrew Heaven. Everything went great, but I got an initial gravity reading of 1.090 at 73 degrees. That seems a bit high to me. But fermentation went great: fast and furious. Now, fast forward a week later and...

Hello to all! I trolled around here all day and figured I might as well introduce myself. My wife bought be a brewing kit this past summer while I was overseas, as a little something to look forward to when I got home. I got back in November and after a little research, finally started my first...