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Proof no matter how long you have been doing this you sometimes screw up royally. Transferring from Primary to secondary.. Secondary is a 25L S.S. Deep Caverns container (with a Petcock Valve) Transferring is going well, I think everything is clean as possible, that said, its been a few...

I have a braggot that's OG was 1.072. fermentation went well so I thought.. And then it got stuck at 1.024 at 2 weeks I brought temps up to 70 and it has been fermenting. Two weeks later i'm only at 1.019. Shouldn't it be going faster..? The vent is active.. About a burp every...

This is my fermentor: Made of polycarbonite plastic.. tough as nails and light as a feather. Completely see thru for all your yeast voyeuristic needs. They also clean REAL easy.. no brushes needed, just a cotton rag and some iodine. I have been considering reproducing something similar...

This receipe started life as Cream of Three Crops ALE Then I converted it into a lager and almost braggot by adding 4lbs of honey & a touch of vanilla. I also removed 1 oz of Crystal Hops to let the honey flavor come through better. Changed yeast from Ale to Lager (Specifically a WLP820...

OK I want a few beers out of their specific fermentors, etc.. and I am cheap and lazy (OK more broke than cheap.. if I have money I spend like a woman). Anyway, I think I have water issues with my two beers waiting for bottling. So they may not be as good as hoped. I don't want to bottle 50+...

I have my mini-keg with tap ready to go for home brewer association monthly meeting.. But my first batch is at best Ok, at worst barely drinkable. Then I got a great idea.. I had 2 bottles of Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout and it was what I was going for.. I mixed it half and half like a black...

I really looked everywhere and could not find this info.. and I know it has to be fairly simple. It also has to have been posted in other threads, but darn if I can find one. I want to convert Old FULL SIZE Refrigerator for Lagering / Fermenting.. All the threads I find do it on a Freezer...

Well on to my third batch.. A Russian Imperial Stout.. and day 2 the Krausen is just beautiful.. nice brown tips of yeast on top of a 1-1/2" tall head.. and its only at about the 18 hour mark.. OK a few things I am curious as how I will fix or will time do it..? I boiled over and...

OK I got this wonderful thing from Deep Wood Brew Products A really nice 2L mini-keg.. Being it looked too cool to not have a keg pump on it.. I made one. Now to either paint, polish or chrome the brass pieces. I could have made it a lot cheaper than I did with a barb, and...

OK my uncle in North Dakota raises Winter wheat and Lentil beans.. Could you make a brew from beans..? I assume winter wheat is a no brainer for making beer from..

Have a 5 gal recipe and the equipment I could do 6.. Since with the Extract Kit you start with 2.5 gallons, and then add 2.5 to make 5 gallons. Could you start with 3 gallons, and stretch it to 6 ? Maybe by adding some honey or other sugars to the batch to boost the fermentables to make...

OK.. here is the simple and short of it.. Yet another noob question. If I have a 5 gal recipe, but make only 4.3 gallons from it.. logic dictates I have more sugar per gallon. More sugar per gallon would lead me to believe I should have a higher ABV..? Correct..? Recipe says 5-5.5% can...

As a new brewer, just wanted give shout out to the really nice guys over at Original Gravity (http://www.oggravity.com/) the shop is really well organized and the prices I found to be as good as online without the shipping. The shop also seems to have about everything you can think of from...

Charles Goin - Midlothian, VA Brewed my first batch today.. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/doh-first-brew-377680/#post4733353 But feel I have read enough in books and directions and here on the forum to know that I absolutely have no idea what I am doing..

OK.. so after spending a lot of time reading and re-reading things.. I of course made a few rookie mistakes in my excitement to start brewing.. Started with a Brewers Best Milk Stout, added Vanilla beans.. Now things that happened/I screwed up 1) Pot too small.. so instead of doing 2.5 Gal...