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Hello, I bought the Kegco K309SS triple tap unit a few months ago. I finally got around to hooking it up a few weeks ago. Just bought a new house so that has kept me busy with other stuff. I have all 3 kegs hooked up. Commercial Fat Tire, and 2 cornys of homebrew goodness. The Fat Tire and...

OK, I have my setup complete. Tomorrow is brew day. Anyone here use this yet and have any advice? A few questions that come to mind are how much temperature is lost in a 10 gallon batch when doughing in? I figure that I will be running around 13 gallons of water for this, so just trying to get...

Just curious if anyone has one yet. Thinking of getting it for my BrewEasy set up. If so, what do you think?

So I was at Lowes today ready to pony up $85.99 for 50ft of 1/2 inch copper pipe when lo and behold, 50ft of 5/8 inch was on sale for $79.99. I made an immersion chiller with it that I will actually use as a pre-chiller for my Therminator. The 25ft 3/8 inch chiller that I was using from my first...

So I am scaling up my operation. I have recently acquired a 20 gallon Boilermaker, Blichmann burner with leg extensions, and a Therminator. I spent tonight giving everything a good initial clean. Tomorrow I will do a full boil 5 gallon extract caribou slobber. I will fill my kettle with a...

I am curious if anyone here collects wort chiller waste water in a rain barrel. I was thinking of doing that and using the collected water for plants in the back yard. My question is if the plastic barrels are strong enough to withstand the hot water without warping or failing? Anyone else here...

I just moved my brewing operation from Michigan and its rich delicious hard water to Arizona. I am in Glendale and the tap water tastes horrible. Add to the fact that I have a water softener in the house. Luckily one spigot in the back yard is not softened. So I figure that I will get a filter...

So I am kegging my cider tonight. I had a fermenting bucket that I used once for an oktoberfest. I washed it out and put it full of oxyclean to soak for a few days. Life got a hold of me and it has been a few weeks. So I dumped it out and started scrubbing the inside with a soft sponge. there...

So I had this beer about a year and a half ago while doing the brewery tour at Sam Adams in Boston. I thought it was absolutely amazing. It is what I would call a breakfast beer. It would go great with waffles! At the time they were just doing a trial of it and said that it would probably never...

So my girlfriend being as awesome as she is got me the True Brew Oktoberfest extract kit for Christmas. It came with an ale yeast packet, but I wanted to use Wyeast's Oktoberfest lager yeast. I figure I will ferment it in my chest freezer, then rack to secondary in a keg to lager. This will be...

Just kegged my second brew, a Caribou Slobber. Been in Primary since Dec 6th. Ended up at 4.97%ABV. Tasted pretty darn good for no carbonation yet. I will let it get below 40 and force carb it tomorrow. Quite excited. Moose Drool bottles are in the fridge for comparison. :ban:

Got my temp controller today. It is hooked up to my GE 7CF freezer. First question. Should I have the Johnson plugged into a surge protector? Second Question it is a model A419ABG-3C. How can I find out if the temperature probe is water proof. Thinking of putting it in a cup of water. Set up so...

So my bottles have been conditioning since 12/11. It was the Brewers Best Pumpkin Spice Porter. I decided to try one tonight. Going into bottles it tasted OK. Not great, not bad either. I followed the instructions to the letter from the kit. So I figured Id try one tonight. I was met with a...

So I am looking at getting a small deep freeze to use for lagering and general fermenting. I am looking at this unit...

So I drank my first ever home brew just now. It is the Brewers Best Pumpkin Spice Porter. It was bottled a week ago today. While it is still not "ready" yet, I felt I needed to try one to see how I did. It is quite drinkable! I did notice that a few more weeks in the bottle will probably be...

So I just brewed my second batch, Caribou Slobber Extract kit. First batch was BB Pumpkin Spice Porter which is 11 days in Primary. First batch was cooled in an ice bath and took me 1hr 30min to get to 80F. I bought an immersion chiller and went from boil to 66F in 13 minutes using about 6...

Ok, so I made my first brew tonight. It was the Brewers Best Pumpkin Spice Porter kit. I followed the instructions explicitly. When I measured my OG it was 1.048. The instructions said that it should be 1.057-1.061. This was at 75 degrees F. I strained the trub as much as possible with a SS...

Hello, Just getting into home brewing. Wanted to do this for a while. Finally got a kit, and I am going to try the Brewers Best Pumpkin Spice Porter tonight. Wish me luck! I am sure questions will soon follow!