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Something has been plaguing a few of my batches and I have no idea what the problem is. 3 of my last six or seven batches have all kicked off with great fermentation and no signs of contamination - no white bubbly filmy "skin" on top but healthy looking/smelling krausen. The first time this...

I picked up my co2 tank yesterday morning, braving the snow and wind at 7:30am in hopes that I could make up for the last co2 tank that just about emptied itself. When I got home, I connected the tank to the regulator, which has a washer at the seam, and a wye with two swivel nuts (each joint...

I just spent a few hours looking through "Brewing with Wheat" and putting together an Aventinus clone recipe based on some of the things outlined in the chapter. My intent is to try and harvest some yeast from a few bottles of Aventinus and ferment according to the schedule mentioned in the book...

I recently received all my kegging equipment and my keezer is coming along nicely. Just about everything has gone off without a hitch except that my Wye from Kegconnection doesn't seem to fit my regulator from Northern Brewer. Afaik, the wye and regulator connections are standardized and the...

Just took the plunge and ordered all my supplies to begin kegging. Chest freezer is on its way and hoping to build a collar this weekend. While shopping for supplies, I figured might as well try and track down a place nearby to fill my co2 tank. Mckinley Welding and Able Fire both fill, but only...

I bottled my pumpkin ale over the weekend, and used ~105g of sucrose for priming 5 gallons. When everything was bottled and I was cleaning my bucket, I noticed there was way more trub than usual (thanks to the pumpkin pie mix) and I quickly realized that I bottled closer to 4.25 gallons of beer...

After traveling to Germany for a week, and thoroughly enjoying the apfelwein and handkase mit musik, I wanted to make something similar to the apfelwein, but with a lot more malt character. I came across Clifton's Ffarg and Brandon O's Graff, but found myself still wanting more German malt...

So I received the kit a little over 2 weeks ago and brewed late on a Saturday. I smacked the yeast pack and then realized there was no bag with specialty grains. I decided to brew anyways and have been pleasantly surprised with the results so far. The OG was 1.05 and gravity reading after 1 week...

I recently bought a kit of Chestnut Brown Ale and was curious if anyone had any thoughts on the use of two 6qt pots for the sparging and lautering. I saw in the IPA thread that three 10qt pots would be best, but I am unfortunately limited to the two 6qt pots due to space constraints. That being...