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So i've got a few kegs and it looks like the keg itself has become misshapen around the lid. I'm going to try oversized / softer o-rings to help seal them, but if that doesn't work- what are my options for repairing these corny kegs? The gap around the lid is very uneven and the leak...

So i'm buying a house and it lacks one distinctly important thing: a brew area. What it does have however, is a large, unfinished basement / garage. I already know part of it will become a man cave at some point, and I figure the other part would do very well as my brew area..and I'd still...

Okay, so i just had one of those "awww duh!" moments as I was responding to someone elses thread.... My beersmith is configured for a boil volume of 3 gallons I usually steep my grains and top up to 3 gallons.... and then promptly add like 6 lbs of DME which brings my wort level up to...

Im about to order the stuff to DIY fermwrap, but i thought before i spent the money I would make sure it's going to work. So if you've got experience with the following setup, please chime in! Fermentation chamber will by an actively cooling refrigerator set to hold 45 F. I'll only be doing...

Okay, so i've not got my final ferm control in place, but at the moment i've got a frozen gallon of water inside an insulated chamber with my bucket of wort and a small ceramic heater. Basically, the house keeps everything around 68* and the gallon of ice cools the insulated area. My STC1000...

So i normally just keg my beer, but on a couple of my batches, i sure would like to put back a few bottles to age some. I've been trying some different craft offerings that come in bombers so i've been saving those for later use. What i'm wondering is this though: Has anyone ever tried just...

Anyone else have have trouble getting their faucet (perlick 525 in my case) to their shank? For some reason i just can't get the collar to thread on right. I've played with it for quite awhile- one of my other 'regular' faucets went on just fine. It seems like the perlick's little teeth...

Where do you guys running multiple kegs off a single CO2 bottle source your secondary regulators from? I mean, i suppose if it comes to it i can adapt a single gauge primary regulator if i have to, but i was hoping for a slightly cheaper option. Asked my local welding shop and checked...

So this is the first time i've experienced this: had my wort boil over randomly about a half hour into the boil. had already been at a vigorous boil the whole time. It then tried to boilover again with about 15 minutes left. I'm making an oatmeal stout and i mashed my specialty grains...

So i took my girl out to the newly renamed / re-schemed local watering hole. they've got like 30 taps and quite a few bottled offerings also but within the first couple minutes i hit a major hangup I asked for a beer menu and was told they don't have one. I proceeded to ask, alright, what...

Okay, so i need some advice on my stir plate circuit. Following stirstarters.com i need the following: 2Kohm Potentiometer 330 ohm Resistor LM317 Voltage regulator .1 microfarad capacitor so off i went to radioshack, home of astronomical prices and retail staff who are not at all...

Okay, so i really want to step up my beer quality game over the next couple months. I can't afford to jump up to 5 gallon boils or all grain, but i've still got a couple things that i really feel are *needs* to get myself consistent and really see some beer improvement. I'd like input on...

Has it been a few days since they put up a daily deal or do i just keep missing them? Everytime i've checked for the past few days its said that it was already over with.

So, we all know airlocks aren't to be trusted as an indicator of active fermentation or when the yeasty beasties are done; but what about krausen? Basically, i've got a primary that, by the numbers, appears to be complete (actually over-attenuated) but i've still got a thin layer of krausen...

I'm going to try and build a conical ferment....wai..wha?...owe 500$? *GROAN* How about you guys? I'm sure lots of you have spent the past 12 months with your mouths watering for that tax return and the spare change to get that next piece of equipment- so what will it be?!

I've got a beer in secondary thats been there about 2 weeks. the yeast settled out roughly a day or two after going into secondary, my question is this: how long do i have to harvest that before I shouldn't expect to get viable yeast?

I think im suffering information overload; done lots of reading on various topics over the past couple days and just want to make sure i've not gotten anything twisted. Also, i'm drinking and don't want to goof up over something stupid: Primary fermentation Secondary Conditioning Cold...

Okay, so i've got a couple styles of beer i'd like to give a shot but i no longer have a roomate (nor have i had opportunity to make friends in the area) and brewing 5 gallons of a beer i may not just absolutely love isn't very prudent. I'd really like to be able to do something like 2.5...

This is a carry over from the thread asking about water level for proper steeping and some questions / issues I had come out of my last brew day. My boil pot is a 20qt stainless steel pot The recipe called for 3 pounds of grain to be steeped (2# crystal, .5# carapils, and .5# 2-row) This...