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if this link works, then here are the pics. too lazy to upload them tonight :) http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150169626596371.299188.506996370 let me know if the link does not pull up the album

I have been reading about the wort wizard and the diy one. creating vacuum in a sealed system in the carboy to transfer from the Bk through the cfc and then into the carboy, well I have been thinking why bother with some water actuated venturi and not with a regular vacuum. I also seen a few...

today working with my newsetup, it was a painfull brewday.. built a cfc, installed a 1/2" weldless spigot tested it out and seen that it left about 2 gallons of water, went to midwest and got a dip tube installed it and worked good with just boiled water, did my biab with a lawnmower de...

Hello Looking for some input on my thoughts. I had a few muntons cans laying around, probably 2 years old. one can was amber LME and a Canadian ale (hopped). Both were amber color and 3.3lb cans iirc. It has been in the primary for over a week and I tested gravity and then drank the sample...

Hello looking for some 5 gallon cornys and 6.5 gallon carboy's I am south of the twin citys in Minnesota

just mixed my first extract soda. old fashioned brand. just wondering how this should taste after mixing. i did mix it well and it did not only seem flat but really watered down. Thats with 4oz priming sugar and 4 gallons of water. That is what it says it makes, Next questions is how can I...

my faucets came today, it's not pretty but the fridge and paint was free. I had to angle them cause I installed them high up on the door and didnt want to spill any beer of someone opened the freezer door. Next time around it will be pretty, with a better fridge of course. Enjoy

does anyone have some input on how to fix a over pitched batch? I brewed a new castle clone a few weeks ago and I got impatient and pitched a 11g packet of nottinghamn on top of a WL pitchable tube. the FG is 1.010. Smell and tasting quite yeasty

anyone in the south metro or south of the cities? My last batch is questionable for infection and need a educated opinion, I think it's the yeast that makes it have a funk smell but I would like someone to test it before I toss it if that is needed. Looking for someone that knows what a...

I filled my party pig the other day with primed beer from the bottling bucket after I added the priming sugar. I have a question about it since it is my first use and no directions came with it. I got it new in box with some stuff I bought off craigs list. I wanted to know if normal amount...

I have been pondering how exactly you are susposed to take a gravity reading. it is susposed to be at 60*F correct? well if I take a reading and it says 1.014 at 70* and my water is 1.000 at 70*, the water at 60* is 0.098. does this mean that I am susposed to compensate for the temperature...

can anyone answer if Nottingham yeast has a diffrent smell then a muntons dry yeast does? I am fermenting a New Castle clone and I smelled the airlock and it has a diffrent smell then the previous batches have. It don't much smell like beer, and yet is hard to describe. Not sour or sweet, and...

I am a new brewer, 4 batches so far and in need of some advice. I brewed 3 extract kits so far from Midwest: corona clone, Pikes IPA, Irish Red. All of the kits started out with SG right to what the kit said they would be. I have 2 hydrometers and checked FG's with both and they are the same...