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    Equipment needed to upgrade from BIAB to All Grain

    All the "equipment kits" I have seen show two big orange coolers, but all the instructions I have read (so far just a couple pictorials) only seem to use a mash tun and a brew kettle. I have a 40qt brew kettle, so what do I need to acquire to move to all-grain brewing? One cooler or two? I...
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    Vintage GE Kegerator

    Did you ever attach a drip tray? I love the one in your renderings but I can't find anything off-the-shelf that is even close.
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    I broke my keezer

    Thanks guys. I looked up my freezer on sears.com and the first page of reviews is all people saying the compressor died after a year, so that combined with the melted lining and really hot compressor tells me that it's toast.
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    I broke my keezer

    Sorry for the long post, I tend to ramble when I make new posts and I can't help it. I have (had?) a 5.5cu. ft. chest freezer that I had painted black and turned into a kegerator. Today I poured a nice belgian tripel and took a big sip of room-temperature beer. It tasted great, don't worry...
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    Racking before kegging

    I am getting back into brewing, and I have started using kegs instead of bottles. Since racking to a secondary has gone mostly out of fashion, what is the procedure for going from primary to keg for conditioning? Do I rack it to a bucket first, or just go straight from the primary to a keg...
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    Do I really need to boil all my water?

    I sanitize anything that touches the beer, and I obviously boil a gallon or three of the water when I make the wort, but I just use cold tap water to make up the rest in the fermenter. I have a well, and the water is untreated, so I assumed it was sanitary enough to not need boiling. I read...
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