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I recently purchased the equipment for adding Nitro to my kegerator and when I connected the regulator to the tank I noticed that the glass protecting the needle on the left guage, the one with the "Fill Tank", has a crack in the glass. I'm not sure when or how this happened, but my concern...

I seem to have over vanilla'd my porter. Any suggestions for how to mellow it out? Here's what I was thinking my options are: 1. Brew another batch and blend the 2. 2. Buy some Oak Cubes and hope the oak flavor helps mellow it out 3. Time, but I've read vanilla is not a flavor that fades...

Has anyone had any luck using these flavorings at bottling? I'm looking to make a Choc PB Stout and my last attempt I used PB2 with no luck and ended up with a PB extract. My online search has me now seeing all sorts of options. Extracts are alcohol based, flavorings are water and I'm clueless...

I just got back from the welding shop where the guy talked me into re-filling my 5lb tank with a mixture of 75/25 Nitrogen/Co2. I decided to start to google it and found that everyone is saying that is a terrible idea and my beer will go flat because I can't crank the psi up high enough to...

So I brewed my first lager kind of hastily on Saturday. Aside from just having room in a fridge to ferment I didn't read too much into it and now I'm paying for it. Here's my current situation. 1. Pitched 1 vial of WL yeast when wort was in mid 70's 2. Wort is currently sitting at 50 degrees...

Brewed my first lager tonight, but haven't pitched the yeast. Current temp of yeast and fridge is 50 degrees but wort is still around 78. Do I wait until the wort drops in temp closer to 50 or pitch it closer to 70. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Should I expect any flavor loss when using gelatin as a fining in my keg? I know it will drag anything in suspension to the bottom and this would include any hops flavor as well right?

Question. I kegged a batch tonight and hooked it to the CO2 already. Is it too late to use gelatin? I have seen instructions but no one ever mentions if it can be carbed up, in the process of carbing up, or flat first then after 48 hours you can start to carb the beer up. Sent from my iPhone...

I recently purchased a SS Brew Bucket http://www.ssbrewtech.com/products/brewbucket It's got a few fantastic features, like the conical bottom and the mini-3/8 ball valve. How the heck to you use this valve? If I pull a sample to test gravity, it will coat it with beer that will not be...

Last year I bought a few 1lb bags of the hops I use most often. I've always kept them in the freezer in their original pkg and double freezer bagged. How long should I be able to use these?

I've been trying to create a shandy lately but when I use zest it ends up giving my beer an aroma more like a carton of orange juice gone sour. Anyway I can counter this aroma/flavor somehow by making additions to the beer in the finished keg? I'm ok with it being very citrusy so adding lemonade...

What should I expect subbing Light DME for Wheat LME? Here's my guess: 1. Darker color 2. Lower OG My IPA recipe called for: 66% Pilsen LME 33% Light DME Instead I brewed with: 66% Pilsen LME 33% Wheat LME So far my results seem to be darker and much less hoppy, but it's still...

I've got a shandy that's tasting great but the aroma is bit sour and I bought maybe dry hopping it might add character while masking this sour aroma. The only issue is that I'm not sure what hop to use to compliment a shandy style beer. Any suggestions? The hops I've used to brew with was Motueka.

I had my PSI cranked to 25 to try to rush my beer to be ready to serve and now its way over carb'd. I bled the pressure and dropped PSI down to 5 for the last week or so but it's not helping. Any suggestions?

I'm having a heck of a time with my beer gun. I used it to bottle the end of my keg 2 months ago and after a couple weeks the beer tasted awful. I'd saw solventy maybe? I just used it again on Thursday to bottle a 12 pack from a new keg and I'm seeing the start of the same thing? My draft beers...

I am struggling to find too many people out there making Peanut Butter beers so there isn't a lot of experience for me to draw from. Here's my situation: 1. Brewed a porter almost a month ago and added 1 jar (6.5 oz) of PB2, or powered peanut butter that's equal to a 18 oz jar of regular PB...

Thought I'd post about my keg failure and maybe someone might have an answer to my mystery. Here goes.... Brewed a 10 gallon batch of Christmas Ale Put 5 gallons in a keg to carb up and after a week tasted it to find it was cloudy and very solvent-like in flavor. When I pulled the keg out...

Hey guys, I just brewed my 16th batch since Christmas and think I am getting the hang of this home brew stuff, but I'm seeing an odd behavior and am worried about the beer I brewed on Saturday. Here's the variables: 1. Used Wyeast 1007. The expire date was a few months ago, and I had it out...

Last weekend I bottled a 12 pack from my keg using my Blichmann Beer Gun and had some odd behavior. I did this from 3 different kegs and only had this result from the 2nd one I did, so it's not like something happened to the gun at the end since it worked on #3. The beer was coming out...

I'm not new to extract brewing, but I am new to using a keggle. I bought it so I could up my batch size and get more bang out of my time commitment. I thought it would be pretty straight forward, but I'm a little unsure about a few things. 1. False Bottom: There's sort of a false bottom...