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I have a chest freezer with eight kegs in it. Works great, I keep it at 41F. I went to pour a beer out of one of my pale ale kegs and it seemed stuck. So I pop the top and notice that the beer is all slushy, like a slurpee. I immediately thought that maybe my temp control was bad so I cracked...

I just got the results back from my latest contest. I didn't expect to win. But I did expect some sort of useful comments. Something I could use to improve my beer. Instead, what i got was one judge telling my the beer was too hoppy while the next says not enough hops. One saying nice and crisp...

So I'm going to bottle up some beer for the holidays and want people to know what to expect from each beer type. What do you think? I have four beers I will send to people: Teddy Bear IPA (Bronze medal Cal. State Fair IPA 2013) This golden elixir is made from the finest malted barley, freshest...

Hi, I am hoping someone can help me figure out the setting on my Auber controller. I basically set everything up as indicated on the manual. Using autotune and it works great. However, if I have the set temp at 150, the burner will stay on until exactly 151, then shut off. It will then rise...

I'm going to wait for another day before I review this. I should be getting it tonight. I hope.

I entered a few beers into the CA. State Fair this year. My porter and sour did ok but I just got the results back on my IPA. I won third place and got a combined score of 40.5.

I brew in a 14.5 gallon conical inside a stand up freezer. Recently I put a thermowell on it and the probe reads from the center of the fermenting beer. However, the last two batches (since the change) have both ended up not fermenting out and being very sweet (1.020 or so). Watching a...

So a while back I bought a bunch of these fliptop bottles: http://morebeer.com/view_product/15635/102304/Bottles_-_16_oz_Swing_Top_12 I used them to bottle some sour ales, parts of three different batches. If you know anything about brewing sours, you realize they take a lot of time and...

I have two sour ales I want to enter but am not sure what category to put them in. Any thoughts? 1. A prickly pear sour ale. It's a blonde ale aged on prickly pears. The fruit is very mild (i don't even taste it but other have). 2. A cherry sour brown ale. Tastes almost like a Jolly...

So I bought a bunch of fliptop (grolsch style) bottles from Morebeer. I have used them on three batches of sour ales, all which took months to brew and age. I also used regular bottles with caps for each batch, bottling fromt he same bucket in the same manner and storing them side by side. In...

So i just finished building up my keezer. It holds eight kegs, but I have only put in four taps. It's awesome. Right now I have a sour cherry ale, a brown ale, an Irish red, and an IPA that's not quite ready. So I poured myself a nice tall glass of brown ale tonight. Being the first pour in a...

How is it even possible to overflow like that. I flush, there is nothing in it to back things up and yet the water rises. Every other toilet I have seen the water rises and stops in time unless you flush a second time. No not this one. ****ing **** water all over the floor. I am now...

I have about thirty gallons of various sour ales in six carboys in my basement. Looks like I am going to have to move. These ales are in various stages of development and none are ready. How do I move these without screwing it all up? Any ideas?

What did you get? I got 2 tart of darkness kits, 2 porter kits, ingredients for a sour blonde ale, and few odds and ends. I was looking hard at the Blinkmann boilermakers and was drooling at the beer sculpter.

I ordered some hops a couple of weeks ago from this shop. They had Nelson Sauvin in pounds for a good price. I ordered and included a note that I will be out of town the following week and asked if they thought it would get there in time or if they can hold it. They immediately responded...

So I brewed up a pale ale and obviously had imbibed a little too much when I designed the recipe. I added way to much 2 row and not enough crystal or other body enhancing malt. FG was 1.006. So now I have an incredibly bland and light bodied beer that is almost 7 percent. I guess it's my...