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Brewing a vanilla bean hard apple cider with SafCider-AC4 yeast. Seeing something I’ve never seen before. It went for about a weeks just little tiny champagne bubbles. Now it’s foaming all the way up and then in a matter of minutes the foam is gone. Then FOAMING UP and then it’s gone. Over and...

I have a 7 tap keezer with a secondary regulator for each tap. Last week I randomly lost an entire 5lb co2 tank. Nothing changed with the system that was not leaking at all. Only thing that changed is that the weather went cold and now the garage is cold. I have turned off all co2 to each...

I kegged 4 beers two weeks (and one day) ago. They were at 36 degrees at the time that I hooked them up (same day) and have been the whole time. I put them all at 11psi and waited a week. Nothing. No fizz. Ok, put them at 30psi for 24 hours and then dropped it down to 12psi for another week...

For my last two brew days I have been unable to get my darkstar burner to do its job. First of the two was pretty damn cold so I thought it was that. Today it is 60f. No excuse. It took an hour for it to get from 80 to 140. Switched to my brinkmann turkey fryer burner and have the wort rocking...

Have been working on a Strawberry/Rhubarb ale. I used quite a bit of biscuit malt and the Australian Ale yeast to accentuate the breadyness of the malt to get a pie crust type flavor. I started with a basic british pale ale recipe and then added here and there to get my desired effect. Let it...

I made a Head Scratcher IPA Hefe for my first beer. Great mix of Hefeweizen wheat flavor and IPA hoppyness. It was such a hit with the friends that I brewed a double batch of it this weekend. I have wanted to get a little creative with this so for half of it (5 gallons) I added 3oz of orange...