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I'm interested in using carbonated water and syrups to dispense soda out of my kegerator when I am short a keg of beer. Right now I have 3 Perlick taps, each with 10' of line. I know that soda water needs to be carbed and served at around 30psi. 10' of line is nowhere near long enough but it...

From my understanding whirlfloc works by helping to create more cold break in the kettle when chilling. Would it still work well for me even when it always takes a long time for me to chill my wort? With a copper immersion chiller (which is pre chilled by another immersion chiller in an ice...

Hello everyone, I have made a few all grain beers, so far they have all been pretty average in their amount of hops and alcohol content. On July 4th I plan on making a Pliny the Elder clone and have some questions. This recipe uses a total of 14oz of hops. 9oz in the boil (90 minute boil)...

Hello, I purchased a kegerator setup and am just now getting around to hooking it up. I didn't notice this problem until I hooked up a faucet and spewed beer everywhere. One of my shank's o-rings is in the wrong spot. Wrong: http://i.imgur.com/akFwd.jpg Correct...

Hello everyone. I have a new nitro setup and I am wondering how long a nitro keg tends to last for you guys. I have only had 1 keg on tap so far, and I carbonated it with pure CO2 and have just been pushing with the nitro mixture. When I put the keg into the kegerator it was reading 1,000 psi...

Hello everyone. I have had some very inconsistent with my all grain setup. I batch sparge, usually with a single infusion. I will mash in at 164 degrees so that my grainbed will hit 150 degrees. I then mash for 60 minutes, and stir up the mash at the 30 minute mark. I then get the initial runoff...

Hello, I recently purchased a kegerator and was wondering how everyone here ages their beer. Before I would just bottle my beer and let it age in the bottles. Now that I have kegs (and really don't want to bottle), how do most people age their beer? I don't want to tie up one of my kegs for...

Hi, I have a kegerator setup and in the past have only used it for beer. I have done some reading and people suggest that I at least get different lines to serve the soda from (25-30'). Will I need to worry about off flavors if I use my Perlick taps, kegs, and all connections (everything but the...

Does anyone of a place where you can get BeerGas refills in Austin, TX. I tried calling Airgas and they only do exchanges and their tanks are quite large. I was hoping I could buy a smaller 28 cubic foot one off of kegconnection.com and get it filled, but I am having a hard time finding a...

Hi guys, I plan on ordering parts for a 4 keg system tomorrow. I plan on creating a nice chest freezer keezer. Initially I was planning on just getting 4 pin lock style kegs, because I can get them for $25 cheaper each, but now that I think about it, when I look at pictures it seems like...

Hello everyone, I am building a 4 tap kegerator (3 regular, 1 nitro) and I recently did some pricing. It would be great if someone could look over my parts and tell me if I am missing anything important. Here is what I plan on picking up: 4 Ball Lock Kegs 2 Way Regulator 2 Way Distributor...

Hi guys. I just took a measurement from my 3rd ever brew and am getting kind of strange results on my final gravity. The instructions say that I am supposed to get a FG of around 1.011 but I just took a measurement and it was reading 1.004. Why would that be? It has been fermenting for 2 weeks...

I have read a bunch of posts at HBT and it seems that other than the Thermapen these two are the most suggested. I have not ever seen a direct comparison between them. I also am interested in a probe style thermometer that can beep an alarm when it reaches a certain temperature. These would...

Hi, Earlier today I brewed my first all grain batch. I though that everything was going really well, I hit all my temps, nearly got the perfect amount of runoff from my mash tun. The problem is that my preboil gravity and postboil gravity are too low. Reviewing my notes, I can't figure out...

So I made a 2L starter last night and placed it on my stir plate. When I woke up this morning my stir plate had bubbled over and all of the thick krausen is now out of my flask. Does this mean that I have lost all of my yeast? Or should I just clean it up and continue to stir?

Last brew I did, I decided to try washing my yeast. After washing my yeast I put them into their own Wyeast style vials. Here is a picture of what they look like now: I do plan on making a starter, so does it really matter how much it looks like there is?

Hi everyone, I just purchased my first all grain kit from Austin Homebrew to brew next weekend. I am reading over the instructions and have a question about how to mash. In their instructions it sounds like they use fly sparging, when I have a 10 gallon cooler that I plan on batch sparging in...

Hi guys. So I decided to try washing my yeast to save some money in the future. I am following these instructions to wash my yeast: http://home.comcast.net/~wnevits/wizards/yeast_washing_rev_5.pdf I am a bit confused where the suspended yeast is. In that guide it says that the top layer is...

Hi guys, I am looking to try an all grain brew so I need to build a mash tun. The thing is that I am pretty confused about what size I should get. I do 5 gallon batches and really do not plan on brewing more than that at one time. I would like to get a mash tun that will support all types of...