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I am in process of building a brewing area in my basement, I currently use electric brewing and was wondering about venting. I am not sure I want to drill another hole 4-6 inches in my brick exterior to vent a range or condensation hood to the outside. Is there any way to have a...

For those of you who use gas struts to help open the top of the keezer with either the original lid on top of collar or a coffin build, how do you calculate where to attach the ball joints on the collar and then onto the lid? Mine were simple 16 inch, lightweight struts from amazon I want to...

I am currently in the process of building a keezer and was planning on both CO2 and Nitrogen. My ideal plan would be to have both beer and wine on tap. For wine I have read that I can keg and purge headspace and push with nitrogen. However if I also wanted stouts/low carb beers served...

I posted a related post in the Keg/Keezer section but this is a little different that I want to ask all of you. I have only heard opinions of sound levels of commercial units like http://www.beveragefactory.com/draft-beer/kegerators/commercial/Kegco-XCK-2460B.html Does anyone have one of...

My downstairs bar has a lower span of cabinets underneath, a top on those then a bar height counter on top of that. My plan is to take out the cabinets and put in a kegerator, place a tap on the bar top and run lines to it. To fit into the bar area the new unit will have to be less then 25in...

I currently use the 5 gallon Braumeister so my grain amount is limited to about 12#. Anytime I have a recipe with more then that in grain weight I have been using less base malt and adding DME. I use beersmith so I adjust to make sure the OG is similar. I add DME to that start of the boil, no...

I am looking for a good quality flavoring of those 2 flavors. I want to use it for a strawberry and blueberry wine I made but also to use for a strawberry blond beer recipe. Anyone have good suggestions and where to get them that taste good and not artificial?

So this one has been sitting around aging. I used the morebeer all grain kit. I started it about 1 year ago. I checked the gravity 2 months ago and again today and they are both 1.014. Would you bottle or continue to keep it in the carboy at this gravity? When you do bottle, what...

So I have been following morebeers mead instructions. I used 15# orange blossom honey into 5 gallons. Started at 1.110 and used 71b yeast. I used 4 campden tablets a few days ago and transferred and degassed today. It finished at 1.000. It came out to 14.7 abv which seems high to me, I...

Started this mead 2/4. 15# orange blossom honey with 5 gallons water. I proceeded according to Morebeer's mead instructions. Did 3 different nutrient additions during fermentation. I ferment open in a bucket (bucket lid and airlock laying on top just not locked down) yeast was...

So I made the Ciderhouse select cider kit per instructions. However after bottling (unfortunately I did not notice prior to bottling) there is a strong rotten egg smell. Has anyone else had this issue with these kits? I suppose there is nothing I can do at this point.

does anyone use this? I picked it up recently but have some problems. The description says it can do wine bottles however the streams do not seem to reach the top of the bottle. Rather it gets caught in foam in the bottle neck. I have tried also with 375ml bottles but after 30 seconds...

Ok, I did a copy of the extract sour that is floating around this forum. It has been 4-5 months so far in the carboy. Tasted it a couple months ago and it really was good, today it is a little more tangy. Most likely this is normal (my first sour). It still has a few months to go. However...

Ok, what is the color on my chiller, and is it harmful? It is greenish in color.

So yesterday I brewed up the extract sour noted in the recipe section but transcribed it wrong. In my 5 gallon batch I used the normal extract listed...OG was 1.054, but used 4oz of aged hops and 8oz of maltodextrin Any suggestions?

So I have noticed after 20+ brews on my 5 gallon system that when I am cooling with an immersion chiller the temperature seems to just freeze at 30-34C. 15 minutes later...same temp. So I have to use another thermometer and lo and behold I am at 60-65F. For some reason the temp probe isnt...

Ok, so I put my melomel into secondary today. I did 2 cans of blackberry puree. When I transferred I must have got some of the fruit because here is the top of the new carboy. 2 questions. 1. Should I rerack again in the morning? Or leave it alone hoping no O2 exposure and the...

I am trying to shorten my chilling time. I currently use a BM20L and an immersion chiller and it still takes 30 mins just to get down to high 60s low 70s. Was toying with the idea of adding a plate chiller. I currently gravity feed into the fermenter but I do have a pump also that I use to...

So I fired up my freezer with the controller today (haven't used it in the past year) and noticed the unit is reading -8F, thats a negative 8F. freezer isnt on, but the controller is reading that as it's current temperature. I can go through the menus ok including SP and dF, etc.. Does...

So a few days ago I bottled a kit merlot and used #8 1st quality corks. Now reading around it seems these do not age as well as #9s. Should/can I change out the cork? How long will these corks keep the wine?