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I'm wanting to see how much better life is with one of these things. Looking for 14 gallons, but if you have a 7 gallon one that your willing to part with super cheap- I could consider that too. In Northern NJ

I know I could re-read everything I have ever read and likely find some answers- but the baby is sick, and so am I. Not too much time for reading. Here is my issue. The last two batches that I made (an Amber Lager and a Munich Dunkel) have stopped fermenting at about 1.030!(Give or take a...

So I went to go brew the other weekend- and as the mash was doing it's thing- I got to sanitizing my counterflow chiller. I will use an auto-siphon to pump starsan through the thing for a few min, then let it sit in it while the rest of the brewday commences, and drain it when it's time to use...

So I've got an Oktoberfest that is lagering in a keg in my fridge- and I want to do another Lager- but the days when the basement floor is cool enough to have a fermenting carboy at 50F are over. I was wondering what might happen if I slowly Raise the fridge temps to the high 40's- so that I...

I had been PM'ing Kaiser to get help with my first Decoction (also first lager that is not a steam beer). I'm posting it here too, because I figure people might have the same question later, have good info for me, or gain knowledge from others replies- here it is *ALso- this recipe was 50/50...

So I was making an IPA today that was close to what I often do. Today I mashed 10lb pale 2lb Ashburn Mild 1lb of Vienna .5 Lager Malt (those last two were just leftovers, and I was feeling creative) I did 1oz of Northern Brewer at 60min, and 1oz Cascade of 5min. And I plan on doing 1oz of...

I just did a decoction brew- following Kaisers advice and after watching his move a few times. It was fun- a little tougher than He makes it look, etc. I have some questions- and rather than PM him- I thought I'd post them out loud, as I'm sure that others must have the same questions- and...

Been using my keggle for the last few brews. I notice that I am always ending up with Less then 5.5 gal... I have always kept a healthy- but not vigorous boil. Now that I'm outside with this thing- I am cooking off more wort! 1. The Boil has always been an hour- on the nose. 2. the amount of...

I've been brewing ales exclusively forever- and have decided to take advantage of my current basement temps to use White Labs 820 Oktoberfest yeast. I got 10lbs of Light Munich cheap, because the bag was sliced open. I was like "I know I've seen that in Okt.fest. recipes- I'll use that as a...

So months after I built all the needed equipment to go AG, I finally got around to using it. I decided to go big, and did my first big beer (OG 1.080 at 59 deg F). I forgot to get O2 for my nifty stone, and so I shook it for a few min. Then I pitched one packet of safeale us-05 (I'm not so...

Has anyone ever mashed their grains, and then stored the wort (PREboil) and then used it at a later date? Any obvious cons that I'm not thinking about? I'm not actually considering this- so much as it's a concept that keeps kicking around in my head. I was thinking that taste, etc. could be...

So I've got a few hop's planted in the yard, and some others that are in Huge 40+ gal. tubs that I brought into the basement for the winter so that they would not freeze and die. And- they think it's go time. I have a dozen or so 18 inch sprouts! I guess there is sunlight down there- but it's...

Does anyone have a good recipe that is similar to Dogfish's 90 or 120 min IPA's? Yooper has a 60 min. clone- and I've loved her recipes before (I think it was the Rogue Dead Guy Ale clone). But- to me- the 60 is not Super different from my current IPA's. The 90 and 120 min are so darn rich...

DO enjoy SS braids- I think they are practical and rock. DO NOT Stir the mash in such a fashion as to pull the braid tight- which gives you one hell of a stuck mash. :mad: I was quite confused as why I was Just about unable to drain off my runnings until after the fact. I had thought that...

So I gave a buddy one of my planted rhizomes, and it's doing better than the ones I kept. We notice that they are starting to get "Arms" (As I've seen them referred to around here). Do people try to train these branchy arms To anything? Do people typically let them grow independently of any...

So I have a nice pale ale in the secondary for- shoot- weeks on end now. I went to keg it now, as I want at least three things on tap for my 30th b-day bbq. I pick up the cardboard box up (its my no frills way to keep sunlight off of it while it matures in the basement) only to find that my...

So while getting off topic in another thread, I've realized that I have been really disappointed in the body/mouth-feel of Most of the micro's that I have tried recently. I'm wondering if people go pro and start to overfilter and perhaps get away from what made their beers good in the first...

So I brewed a wit...A PM with 8 lbs of grain and a few WDME,etc. But I had cultured yeast from Brewery Omegang's (SP?) Wit- and had steped it up too. I poured this first attempt at brewing with a cultured yeast into the primary and it did great. But the Krausen level never would settle...

Just took a grinder to a keg for a keggle, just got 50 ft of 3/8 OD soft copper for a counterflow......Just did a lot of things to get all the AG setup up and running. Here is the dilemma: I've seen on youtube how some people have made mash tuns out of a square coolers and PVC pipe for the...

And seriously, let me apologize for picking up the whip and walking over to a dead horse. But in the pages of threads about this- I didn't get the info I want. Here is what I did. I mashed 4lbs of 2-row 2lbs of crystal 10L 1lbs of Morris Otter at 153 for an hour in a 5 gal cooler. I...