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I just did a test at the end of my boil with two thermometers. The floater that came with my Brewers kit that I bought when I first started said boiling was 215 and the new 10.00 digital said 212. Maybe that is why I have problems with mashing and achieving what I want using mash temps as I've...

Hey anyone else having something other than turkey today? It's just her and I today and she had to work until 3:30pm so it was up to me. Here is what it is... (And yes everything is on time and no major problems) Porterhouse steaks on the grill Sauteed portobello mushrooms and onions Green...

We talk about starters, washing yeast, pitching on a yeast cake and everything else except I never hear mention of one of my favorite practices. Pitching onto yeast that has settled out in the secondary. There is always some nice clean yeasties in the ring at the bottom of the carboy. Does...

I have two retired stainless steel fire extinguishers that were the "Just water Under Pressure" type. They are 2.5 gallons each and I can think of lots of DIY possibilities. Any reason these are unfit for beer related use? Facts please, not looking for flippant, half in the bag responses. Okay...

I was found growing wild along a railroad bed. When fresh and chewed I caused burps that tasted like Centennial. Paired with 10lbs of 2row, 1 lb of crystal 20 and fermented with S-04 I am orange/citrus, fruity and floral. The beer I'm in is well balance and damned awful tasty. Who am I?

So I had my keezer in storage for almost six years. It worked fine when I parked it, but now she no gets cold. Makes it's normal low hum noise and the compressor gets hot but it's not getting cold. Any Ideas?

It's been a long hiatus, but I'm finally brewing again. I harvested some wild hops a while back and wanted to do a brew with them. So I figured the best brew to do with unknown hops would be a pale ale. So I used 10 lbs of Briess 2 row and 1lb of crystal 20. I did a little tighter crush than the...

I was reading over in the electric brewing area and kept seeing reference to Being able to brew in the basement now that they have gone electric. I want to set my brew area up in the basement of my new-to-me house and go natural gas. What is the difference if you have a vent. Is there a...

I made a DFH 90min clone. It is now six weeks old and tastes like a cup of columbian coffee. Very thick and creamy texture wise and has a very distinct coffee flavor. This is obviously a batch gone wrong, but yet tases very good and has a kick like a mule! (8.8%abv) I am wondering what went...

Today was brew day. I brewed Ed's Oktoberfest ale hit an OG1.060 @5.5 Gal., DFH 90min. OG1.081 @5 gal. The next thing was I hated the idea of thowing out all the 90min mash still containing a bunch of sugar so I made a small beer. The small beer had an OG1.038 @2.5 gal. I didn't hop it like...

How many of you have tried bottling after cold crashing a brew? I have some brews that have been crashed for a couple days, and another couple that have been at 37F for a couple weeks. This is obviouslky done to get the yeast to drop out, but I am running into storage problem and would like...

How many of you have tried bottling after cold crashing a brew? I have some brews that have been crashed for a couple days, and another couple that have been at 37F for a couple weeks. This is obviouslky done to get the yeast to drop out, but I am running into storage problem and would like...

I know I've read it somewhere, but can't seem to find it. What is the formula for converting Extract recipes to All Grain? What about hops considerations? Thanks!

Being after midnight where we live it is now My wife's and my 20th wedding anniversary. Went out had a nice dinner then stoped off to visist our son and sooner or later to be daughter-in-law. We had a nice visit then came home. When we were home my wife got pretty secretive and snuck off to...

8 days into the ferment I opened up the primary to take a Grav reading on my DFH 90 min IPA clone and the smell that hit about took my breath away. It smelled like piss in a bottle after about a week in the sun. This is 90% pils, 10% Amber malt and a whole lot of hops. I'm not real sure what...

I did a starter for WLP002. Doing all the normal stuff etc. etc. This thing didn't do anything for a couple days. Then I finally started getting some activity I swirled it every now and then as normal then I started getting lots of bubbles out of the lock. for the first couple days after I...

Hello I am a new home brewer. I just brewed my first batch friday and of course am already getting antsy. I picked American Cream Ale as my first brew because I figured it would be pretty hard to Gump that up. What really drew me to this site was the DIY area, lots of cool ideas in there...