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Alright, I'll keep my end of the deal up. No punches pulled. I'll just go on telling you how it is. You guys and gals want to know what it's like running a full-on commercial brewery and are willing to invest your time reading these threads, I suppose the least I can do is not blow smoke up...

Hey everyone. I've never made a GF beer and I'd like to put something together for St. Patricks day. Given the Irish connection with both the holiday and potoatos, I'd like to combine the two. Does anybody have any flavoring and/or fining suggestions as well as some technique pointers for a...

I am officially throwing my hat in the ring. Our building is leased, our contractors have had their fun sodomizing me, our LLC and EIN numbers are filed and our applications for a brewing license are en-route. Muddy Creek Brewing Co. is on it's way. I will try to keep a running thread...

I finally have taken the plunge and will be submitting two beers for a Montana-wide homebrew competition coming up. I'll be sending in my Muddy Creek Chocolate Stout and my Skinny Cow IPA. I'm not too confident on the Skinny Cow. Ended up with some tired bittering hops and it just doesn't...

Has anyone ever tried to do a whirlpool with an electric kettle with one or more elements inside? I am trying to determine if the trub will cone up in the middle despite the elements possibly disrupting the cyclone of water. If anyone has done this and can tell me how well it does or...

So I've looked around some threads, done a search, looked through my various books and I finally accept that I'm just going to ask the question... I generally do a mash ratio at around 1.33. It's a nice middle ground and I've been happy with the results generally speaking. But here's where...

So I was touring Rogue last week. (Great time.) And they have an 8000 gallon fermenter. The guide says it takes them 4 brew cycles to fill it. I wanted to ask (but didn't get a chance) if they wait to pitch the yeast until after all the beer is in the tank or if they pitch progressively...

Those of you who do monitored fermentation temps in some kind of fermentation chamber, do you use a thermoprobe simply inside the chamber and attempt to adjust for the exothermic prediction of the fermenting wort, or do you rig a thermoprobe inside the fermenting bucket/vessel and maintain a...

I'm having a FG problem. I seem to consistently reach a FG of around 1.020 to 1.012. It doesn't matter what wort, or yeast I use. It doesnt' matter if I go with hydrated dry yeast or liquid yeast with a starter incubated with my stir plate. My house is kept at a pretty consistent 63...

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Well. Memorial Day weekend was the big roll-out of an entire E-Herm run. Start to finish with the new rig including using a counterflow chiller I picked up from a member right here on HBT. Well, short story shorter... everything went really well. I only made a couple of really minor mistakes...

Ok, has ANYONE actually gotten a MyPin TD4 upd and working? I swear at the end of this saga I'm going to write up a layman's guide for getting these things working if I ever manage it. Ok, the image (assuming it came through) is from the TA4, but the TD4 wiring guide is exactly the same...

I have assembled all the components for a nice little EHERM setup. I'll be stealing various toolbox build ideas from other contributors and hopefully I'll end up with an automated system that lets me streamline my brewing day. (Currently I run about 6 hours for a full cycle, would like to move...

Sigh... So I have been asked by a co-worker to provide him with about 3.5 gallons of Muddy Creek Honey Chocolate Stout, a fine beer that I'm generally very proud of. So Wig goes ahead and makes a rock-star batch of Muddy Creek and (in order to save some time) decides to directly pitch a...

They've introduced some legislation that likely won't pass but it's amazing the length to which they'll go in order to give vent to a sour-grapes mindset. Due to some laws that were passed in the state some 40 years ago, the number of active liquor licenses is set. When the laws were passed...

So, I have the early phases of a nano plan. I have a few wrinkles that make it particularly attractive and terrifying at the same time. There is an amazingly beautiful space in my town where I can have a very popular brew pub. There is an attached 'garage area' where I can place the brewery...

Ok. With the pump arriving later today I have all the base components to put a manual HERMS together. I'll be installing the copper tubing in the HLT tonight, all the quick connect lines are essentially finished, I need to put the sparge manifold into my monster MLT and seal it. Then, I...

So I got a big old monster cooler for my mashing. Installed a sight tube and a temperature gauge as well as drilled a bulkhead for my drain and screen. It's a thing of beauty. However, it's too damn big. I generally brew 5.5 gallon batches and the thing has too much headspace and a poorly...

I am putting together a modest brewery for small batches. I have a 6 gallon HLT, a 15 gallon Igloo Mash and an 8 gallon BK. The HLT and BK will be heated with 4500 watt 220 heating elements. (way overkill for the HLT, but I've already got one on-hand so...) I am planning on installing a...