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Thanks for taking the time to reply, very much appreciated!

This looks really classy and insanely awesome, very nice job! I've been trying to convince my wife to let me put taps in the kitchen or pantry, but to no avail. I showed her this and asked if I built something like this if she would be ok with it in the music/office room, and she said "yes"...

I probably wouldn't have added anything and just let that ABV get a bit higher. :tank:

I saw this post on Mashable and of course immediately thought of beer...and also immediately wanted to separate the two. This is going to happen, but not by me. So who will it be? Or has this already been done and I've missed it @DogFishHead @BrewDogs...

How did this turn out? And did you end up using any of the oak with it?

I use liquid yeast with a starter on a stir-plate. Typically I start the starter 48 hours before pitch time. I use Mr.Malty's calculator to get the starter size. Then use this formula to calculate how much DME (oz) to use: (ml/10)*.03527. I do the whole boil/cool/pitch into the starter flask...

I've dropped a pressure relief stopper and the fermenter's gasket (I use the Blichmann 14.5 SS Conical Ferminator). Once was right after pitching the yeast, another was 7 days into fermentation. I used a brewing glove that comes up to my bicep, washed and sanitized. I stuck my arm right in the...

Oh wow! Is that what they are? Ha!

I used the new packaging for the first time this past weekend. I used two packs of WLP002 in a 4-5L starter with stir plate (per MrMalty) for a 10-gallon batch of a 1.080 OG IPA. So far everything seems to be going along as normal. If the new packaging provides better yeast (which is the...

That is exactly what I have been doing for years. I've gone through numerous spray bottles, the plastic trigger doesn't last long. I spray my 5L yeast flask, 14g SSC Fermentor (all parts sprayed before and after assembly), and kegs. I've never had an infection. I was taught to clean and...

Cheers!

Less than 30 minutes. I'll have to try adding some time between conditioning and milling and see if that helps. Thanks! Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Home Brew mobile app

How do you accomplish that? When I condition, that's when I need to clean my mill. The rollers get caked with moist grain. I think I've been using 2% of the grain bill weight in water. Tips? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Home Brew mobile app

I've always: boiled my muslin hop bags for 15 minutes, drained, cooled, sprayed hands with StarSan (diluted of course), filled, tied, and put in the primary fermenter. I've never had a problem.

I think this thread is an awesome idea, and I'd love to get involved at some point. My problem (and quite possibly only my own), is that I have a hard time finding the "latest/greatest" ask because of all of the other replies. :confused: If everyone simply quoted the "latest/greatest" ask in...

I was considering pretty much the same thing a while back. I thought about it and to sum it up; I could control my ferm temps well enough to still get good beer, and I really hated cleaning and sanitizing bottles for 10g batches. So I got my kegging up and running first. The good thing is that...

I batch sparge, and when I do a FWH, I put the FWH's in the empty BK (I don't start the flame right away) and then start sparging. I keep them in for the entire boil.

I remember reading something (can't remember exactly, but an article, blog, or post) that described putting a few hop pellets into a bottle of Bud Light (all obviously single-hopped), recapping (with a new cap), and letting them sit for a few days. And then pouring through cheesecloth at serving...

This sounds like a fun experiment. Looking forward to hearing your results. I've been considering doing something either similar to this or the Eisbock method.

The question is really related to equipment, and what batch size someone's system is setup to brew. I used to brew 5-gallon extract batches. But I moved to all-grain, and got 20-gallon kettles so that I could brew 10-gallon batches. It is a definite step up in equipment cost, but that wasn't a...