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Hey y'all, I am now on my second used chest freezer that I attached a temp controller to. The first worked great for about 6 months and then would only keep the temp around 55*F. I checked all the settings on the temp controller and they were all where I wanted them to be. I asked on here and...

Does anyone know of any good cyber monday sales? I have yet to hear of any and wonder if any are out there.

Hey y'all, I bought an old chest freezer off of craigslist. It is approximately 20 years old (per seller) and rigged it up with a Johnson A419 temperature controller. I purchased this last fall and it has been working great until this past month. The temperature keeps reading in the mid to...

Hey y'all. As I dive deeper, into this wonderful hobby of brewing, I am left with the idea that the time for a brew day can present itself at the last minute. My lhbs is part time and therefore is not open 7 days a week. With that being said, I was wondering what ingredients y'all keep on...

Hey y'all, I will be taking a trip with SWMBO to Washington DC in early April. I am wondering if there are any good breweries to visit while we are there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :mug:

I recently took a trip to Sin City and part of my trip involved a required trip to try Triple 777 brewery inside of Main Street Station just off of Freemont St. While there I ordered a "sampler" of their beer which included 5-5 oz beers. One of which was their seasonal brew. After I ordered...

Hey y'all, I am looking at networking with other homebrewers in the Falls and would like to see who all on here is in the Falls. I recently was talking at our LHBS and the owner stated the club in town has pretty much disbanded due to other interests. I was just wanting to network and trade...

I wired me new temp controller to my old chest freezer and after figuring out why the dang thing kept tripping the breaker I had a question pop up. Nowhere in the literature could I find anything on the subject. The wiring did not appear to me to bypass the existing thermostat, so with that...

Hey yall, I bottled a Blonde recently and just cracked open the first one, SWMBO is not really a beer drinker but stated after tasting this that she would prefer that over a bud light (WOOHOO) and she also stated it is the smoothest beer she has ever had. Awesome, "thanks for the gift that...

I recently purchased an older chest freezer from craigslist for $35, I know, a steal. Anyway, I cleaned it out today, set the temp on the warmest setting I could, and put my thermometer in a glass of water and 4 hours later the water is frozen solid. I have done some searching and am unable to...

I went to St Lucia for my honeymoon and tried their beer called Piton, it was a damn good beer. Im wondering if anyone has tried this beer and if there was a clone recipe out there. I have done some searching but no luck. From their website "Taste Piton Beer is a pilsner lager made with...

Ok, I am still VERY new at this whole brewing/mead making thing and I still have some basic NOOB questions. I am going to attempt to make a blueberry melomel for SWMBO and am a little unsure on temps. I know with beer making there needs to be certain temps for steeping and all that. I have...

My wife bought me a beer kit for Christmas and I have brewed one batch of beer but now she wants me to make blueberry mead. I am in need of some help since I am so new to all of this. I want to start small with a 1 gallon batch since local honey is so expensive right now. Anyway, I am not...

I may have made an oopsident. I brewed my English Boch kit, left it in primary for 2 weeks, I checked the FG over 3 days as instructed and all 3 reading were identical, then I put it in secondary for 2 weeks and bottled today but I did not take another FG reading, (of course all bottles were...

I know I have seen this on here before but I am unable to relocate it. I have heard of some people sanitizing their bottles in the dishwasher and have been told it is acceptable sanitization. I also heard something about not using a rinse agent like Jet Dry but am unsure the reasoning. Also...

I know I have seen this on here before but I am unable to relocate it. I have heard of some people sanitizing their bottles in the dishwasher and have been told it is acceptable sanitization. I also heard something about not using a rinse agent like Jet Dry but am unsure the reasoning. Also...

I am a NOOB to home brewing and was just wondering y'alls thoughts on plastic fermenting buckets vs carboys. Thanks, I have learned a lot so far by looking through here.:mug: