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I have a RIMS rocket and the blichmann power tower PID with it and I've used it a few times. I don't believe I'm getting scorching, the pump is moving at a good pace, the element isn't blackened when I take it apart, but I see the wort visibly darken. Last batch was pale ale, wheat, and a half...

I have a Blichmann 120v RIMS rocket, 10 gallon mash tun with/false bottom, a bunch of camlocks and silicon tubing, and a chugger pump. I want to do step mashing, any recommended setups? Here's what I think I need: A controller, e.g. Auber SYL-2352 Some sort of SSR as the RIMS is 2000w...

How deep should I go, stick with extract or simple kits, or talk about all grain? I don't want to be too basic or way over their heads either.

I brewed this up as an experiment to use up some hops I had on hand and to try a pale ale with less crystal malt and more wheat than I normally use. I'm normally humble with my homebrew but full disclosure for this one: people went nuts over this beer. Recipe: Blue Falcon Pale Ale Brewer...

I converted my home kegerator from Sanke to Ball Lock, but we have a kegerator at work that needs to work with commercial kegs. People are asking me to bring in a keg, is there any way to do it easily? The tail pieces are crimped on so I can't just change the ends to MFL without cutting them...

I have a Centennial and a Cascade plant coming back for the second year, I bought hop crowns from Great Lakes last year and got about 5oz dried off them, not bad for 1 year. All the bines growing this year look nearly the same to me, I've read to trim back any bull shoots and only train 3-4...

I have a spartanburg challenger VI keg that was missing an out post, a lid and a in/gas dip tube, I was able to source the other 2 parts, but the dip tube has a smaller diameter than the rest of my kegs. Any idea where I can get this part? Strange that the parts are different than other ones I...

Why are Crystal/Caramel malts rated 10-160 not as dark as beer at those ratings? I've read it's the ground up color of the malt, but a 40L/52SRM beer is jet black, 40L crystal malt is a reddish/tan color, is this just a liquid vs. solid thing?

Looking for a beer gun, preferably with the connection kit.

This should be interesting, I brew in a bag on a bayou burner in a 10 gallon pot. This is my first weizen and I was having trouble with the mash, according to the thermometer it was 150 exactly but after 90 minutes and a drop to 148 I still was testing positive for a tiny bit of starch via an...

I used a bottling bucket/wand for the first time on Saturday and have some questions about various stages. The first bottle gets a bunch of air whipped into the bottle as the hose clears, and then again when the air reaches the spigot near the end of bottling. I just capped them anyway (I...

When I was cleaning my better bottle today after bottling a batch, I noticed a defect in it where it had a wrinkle/crease in it. I'm not sure if it came that way or if it bowed out because of the liquid in it, or what happened. This is the first time I used it, it's a 5 gallon secondary, it...

I bought a barley crusher, I don't see any instructions to clean it before using but I know sometimes oils from manufacturing and rust preventers can be on products like this.

A buddy of mine is brewmaster at a local brewpub and gave me some yeast in a sanitized mason jar last week Friday from his stout batch so I can brew as stout. I was unable to brew the stout over the weekend as I was missing so key ingredients and he is out of town, the jar is about 2/3 full...

I just bought a bucket from Midwest and I cannot get it to seal, the hole is so tight I have to basically screw in the spigot, this kind of distorts the shape of the bucket and I think that is the reason it won't seal properly. Is that normal or does the spigot normally go through the hole more...

Can anyone confirm the size of hose that will attach to this? I can't believe it's not on the better bottle site or any of the major home brew sites.

I bought a kettle with a kettlevalve 1/2" like so I am a bit confused as to what hardware I need exactly to get the wort into the fermenter, I see I can get a 1/2 barb to screw into it and hook a 1/2" ID tube to it, but I don't think I want a barb sticking out all the time. I could get a...

This came in my inbox today, not sure how I got on the women's health mailing list. http://eatthis.womenshealthmag.com/slideshow/your-essential-guide-beer For ales, brewers use a bottom-fermenting strain of yeast, and they let it do its work under relatively warm conditions. Lagers, the...

Hi, I found this forum via all the awesome recipes that google has indexed. I received a Mr. Beer for Xmas, never thought I'd be into brewing as I figured I can buy really good beer here in Michigan, but the process is a lot more interesting and harkens me back to my short lived Chemistry major...