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Hey ya'll, I haven't homebrewed in years as my living situation no longer supports the hobby, but I do need some help. We're trying to cut costs at my work by buying a kegerator and getting kegs every week instead of bottled beer. It's unclear exactly what the kegerator budget is, but I get...

I'm in the Chicago land area and I'm taking a Documentary production class. The final project in the class is for everyone to make their own short documentary. The two most important things to consider when selecting a topic are that it's something you're passionate about and practicality. So...

When I first started brewing I was speaking to an accomplished homebrewer and I asked him if I need to treat my water at all. He told me that in most places I would but in Chicago that water is naturally ready to be brewed. He brews beer for a living and I'm pretty sure he knows what he's...

the latest beer is an ESB. I'm very happy with the flavor but the carbonation level seemed very low. It will have been in bottles for 2 weeks on wed. I know I should wait longer before trying one but I couldn't resist. I've tasted other home brew a week after I bottled it and they were...

When I first started brewing my reading led me to believe that Mash out's were helpful, but not necessary. So I haven't been doing it for the 8 batches I've done, and I'm not even sure if I need to because I double batch sparge. These are the questions I have if I should be doing a mash out...

This was our 6th brewing attempt and I'm fairly confident this one will be our first successful brew. Our last attempt to reach proper efficiency was a failure and the Og was very low. This time around I picked a recipe geared towards a 60%(We hit about 50% last time) efficiency instead of a...

I've posted the problems I've experienced in the past and gotten great advice. This time I thought I'd take advantage of the nice people on this forum and post my procedure for mashing in advance and see if any one can inform me of anything I'm doing wrong. 1. I got my grain well crushed at...

Last Monday I got a terrible efficiency while brewing Bobby's Amber Ale. Also I realized I was mashing in with too much water at too low of a temperature, 5 gallons at 154. This monday I was brewing the Chaos IPA from the forum database. I mashed in with 4 gallons at 168 which according to...

I just bought beer tools and I can't get it to open. Does any one else have this software?

I'm having issues figuring out exactly when and how to use my hydrometer. I thought readings were to be taken from the carboy right before the yeast is pitched, when racking into secondary, and before bottling/kegging. I've been reading the board though and it seems like many people take...

I waited ever so patiently for ten whole days and my first attempt to rack into secondary fermentation failed miserably. I went blue in the face but could never achieve a steady syphon. All I did was swallow a bunch of my partially fermented beer.(Caught a noticeable buzz actually) What went...

when I take a hydrometer reading or when I'm racking into my secondary? IShould I resanitise any equipment I'm going to use? Also I was uner the impression you cyphon from the first fermenter to the second, but I just read on another post that's a noob manuever. How then is it done?

Me and my buddy attempted to brew our first batch two nights ago. Neither of us have experience of any kind other then what we've read in the last three weeks since the idea came to us. After a certain amount of reading we both got to a point where we couldn't apply what we were reading...