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I recently moved into an older house with tons of charm but no central air. We have window units and I know that it's going to be hard to control my fermentation temps with the old ice water bath and towel trick. My thoughts are to buy a wine cellar fridge and use it to house one carboy for...

Hey everyone, I'm using my friends 10 gallon cooler mash tun to do a Belgian Dark Strong today. I am used to using my little 5 gallon setup and noticed right off the bat that I get a much more consistent temperature in my 5 gallon tun. When I doughed in today I overshoot my temp and added...

Well, this weekend I had one too many drinks and ended up on a drunken walk home from the bars. I left my friends, got a bit lost on the way managed to lose my glasses in the dark on the way. The frames and lenses cost me around $300 and I'd had them for about a year and a half before I lost...

I'm expecting to get a RDWHAHB here, but I'm asking just to make sure. The other day I kegged a batch of gumball head clone and accidentally forgot to purge the Corney of O2. When I finished I put the keg into my fridge and let it chill overnight and then hit it with 30 PSI that day. While...

With a bit of extra Christmas money, the addiction that is brewing gadgets, and now I have a full on draft system. I just got the kegging gear with picnic taps, but really wanted a draft tower for the ascetic and convenience. I looked through a ton of Sanyo conversion guides and ended up with...

The title says it all. I have one keg with a pressure relief valve that I just cannot get to seal. I had it seal one time, but now it's in my kegerator chilling and I just checked the seal and it bubbles like crazy when I put some star san on it. Can you tighten or loosen the valve at all...

Well, I had the day off and it's about time I brew my Belgian. I wanted something that would be enjoyable for everyone around New Years since I'm having a bash at my house. My brother a lot of our friends, and I really enjoy DT so I thought I'd make a clone. Here is the recipe and a photo...

Tis the season when breweries are putting out their wet hopped brew. Yesterday, I picked up some Two Brother's Heavy Handed IPA and a bottle of the Sierra Nevada 2007 Harvest Ale. Looking forward to trying the Two Brother's in particular because I have a true love for their Cane and Ebel...

Since I just got into kegging, I thought it would be neat to create labels to keep inside my kegerator. That way, people could get an idea of what's on tap and hopefully get a kick out of the labels. That, and I enjoy toying with Photoshop from time to time. Here is the plate I came up with...

And man I must say, Wow! This was my first beer that blew me away. My other beers have been so so, but this one I'm truly proud of making. To boot, I didn't tried the sample until right now at 9:35 am and it still taste good. Even my brother and GF, who looked a bit freaked to be trying beer...

Hey everyone, I finally bit the bullet and bought some kegging gear. I've spent the last couple days cleaning labels of my kegs, and doing overnight soaks of each individual keg. I plan on replacing all the O-rings tonight and am going to keg my first three batches. I know I need to...

I was playing around with my kegging gear tonight after getting my co2 tank filled. I didn't go in depth, but wanted to see if I could just hand tighten on the regulator and get a seal. It didn't come even close and just spewed co2 whenever I opened up the tank. So, my questions is: Do you...

Well, my weekends have been full for a while and it seems to always keep me from brewing. I finally decided to give it a go for my first mid-week brew. Heating the strike water as we speak and it's a wonderful 55 degrees outside which should make chilling go much much quicker. ;) Lets see if...

Hey everyone, After bottling a few batches, I decided to jump into kegging as a time saving option. That, and I'm pretty excited about having my own tap brew for my upcoming birthday and of course the Holiday season. ;) I ended up getting a kit from kegconnection, but through an Ebay...

Well, I bottled both my pale ale and pumpkin ale around the same time. The pumpkin Ale turned out fantastic, but the Pale has a taste that I can only describe as plasticy. I have no idea where this is coming from because my pumpkin Ale was brewed with the exact same stuff and just a day later...

So yeah, I joined the ranks off all grain this weekend after my 4th batch ever. I was doing large partial mashes and just wanted to go for the whole process. Things went awesome! I hit 75% efficiency (which is what I calculated for) and tagged my gravity right at 1.052. By the end of...

Hey everyone, I'm planning up brewing up an IPA this weekend and was going to use some special roast to make it a bit more interesting. My question, I was planning on using 2 lbs along with 10 lbs of 2 row and about 1.5 lbs of miscellaneous other stuff. The special roast is taking up about...

Hey everyone, Just a simple question for those people out there that don't believe in secondary fermentations. Is there a point when you could potentially have a beer in primary for too long? If so, what adverse affects would this have on the finished brew? I ask because I have a porter...

So I bottled my first batch today, an American Weizen, and didn't think to take a gravity reading until the end... It was in Primary for twelve days with little to no fermentation activity for the past five or so days. It had a OG of 1.056 and my measure FG was 1.021... It was supposed to be...

Yesterday I had a horrible problem with a stuck mash and stuck sparge. I talked to one of my local brew club members and he asked if there was a lot of "powder" in the grains from a super fine crush. The grains came from morebeer.com and there was a significant amount of powder. Fast...