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Complete Homebrewing/Kegging Set for sale. Would like $500 for everything but no reasonable offers will be refused. Set includes: -Cooler Mash Tun -7 Gallon Carboy -5 Gallon Carboy -2 Plastic Fermenting buckets -Immersion Chiller -Bottling Bucket and equipment -Over 200 bottles -2 cases of...

So--I have been brewing the recipe below for a couple of years. The actual recipe calls it a cream ale but it is not close to any cream ale I have ever had before. I do really like the recipe though and I make it all the time. It occurred to me the other day that this recipe would probably be...

Here is an odd question for you: So--recently a new brewery opened up in our little town. I have gone in twice now to purchase growlers because that is their only take home option and I cant sample there because the "trendy" crowd annoys me ( :D ). The first beer I took home was a brown and...

I inherited this "flour mill" called Mil-Rite. It looks like it is a 1/4hp motorized corona mill. Will this work to mill grain or do I just need to start making a lot of bread?? Thanks in advance

Ok--So this is something I have been wondering for a while. Tonight I am sitting here sucking down a commercial IPA that I bought over 3 months ago and it tastes the same as when I bought it. When I make an IPA, however, it is good for maybe 2months max in the keg and then becomes a bitter...

So I am brewing up a strong ale because I have always wanted to try and brew a bigger beer. My plan was to make it a 3 gallon batch to keep costs down. I converted a recipe and it looks, if all goes well, my SG will be 1.122 with and ABV of 12ish%. I ran the numbers through a calculator and...

So--I have been brewing a lot of boring stuff lately--not bad--just boring--no matter how I try to make it interesting it turns out boring--I am sure you have been there. Anyway--last week AHS had that Pink IPA on sale and I figured "What the heck--lets give that a shot--that cant be...

Ok--here is a weird question. So, I have this beer I brewed back in maybe February--just a blonde ale, all grain. It was ok but nothing spectacular so I have been letting it mellow and drinking a few here and there without problems or off tastes. Well, the other day I found a bottle in my...

Hello Cider Gurus-- So, last year I did a lot of cider sampling to find out if I even liked hard cider. Turn out that I liked a sweeter cider rather than the dry variety. I have tried to cruise through the cider recipe section with no success--it is hard to pick out a recipe with limited...

Hello--I just have a quick question for you. So I am doing my first IPA which, of course, required dry hopping. I just threw the dry pellets in there after it reached final gravity--no sack or anything--just threw them on top. I have left it for a week now and opened it today just to take a...

Hello-- Quick question. So--I brewed a beer yesterday and when I was putting the blowoff tube into the gromet on my Brewers Best plastic fermenter it broke in half. I put the blowoff tube in the hole and put sanitized foil around it but I can hear the CO2 escaping around the foil. What...

Hello--I hope everyone had a good holiday. So--My brother gave me a beer kit for Christmas. While he was at the store he noticed they had a grab box of "mystery ingredients" and for $0.50 he could grab one. Of course he did and also gave it to me. I have not opened the bag but it appears...

Ok--this may officially fall into the realms of a stupid question. I was really looking forward to brewing this wheat beer derivitive with a pretty intense orange flavor. The recipe is as follows: 5lb 2-row 3lb flaked wheat 1lb flaked oats 1lb flaked wheat 1/2oz cascade at 45min 1/2 oz...

Ok--I found a couple of recipes for a wheat beer with orange peel. One calls for bitter and one sweet. Other than the obvious--what exactly is the difference between the two?? Do they impart differenct flavors to the beer or is it just a bitter/sweet thing?? Also--it seems like with the...

Ok--cant find the answer to this one on a search. I got a wild hair and decided to brew two beers at once. One is the normal 5.5gallon in a plastic ale pail. The other is a 4.5gallon in a 5gallon glass carboy (I know its going to blow off and that is taken care of). Both are using US-05. I...

I have spent the last little bit searching the forums and have not really found an answer to this question. I have a cream ale (OG 1.045, not sure of FG yet) that will be done and going into bottles next Sunday. I am going to brew another cream ale that day and thought I would experiment and...

Hello-- I have read no less than 15 threads about grits and I am still confused. My wife was into eating grits for breakfast for about a month but that ended. I was going through the cabinet the other day and found just shy of 3lbs of "Quaker Quick Grits". Coincidently the recipe I have...

Hello-- I just have a quick question I have not been able to find the answer to by searching. I am having some problems maintaining mash temps in my cooler even with preheating and having my grains at room temp. I saw one thread where someone suggested that there was too much head space in...

So--I finished my STC 1000 temp controller last night. I then did my first all-grain today and put it in the fridge it is controlling. I dropped the wort temp to 72ish prior to pitching, pitched the yeast and put the fermenter in the fridge. Then I insulated and taped the temp probe to the...

Ok--decided to try my first all grain. I did all the math and figured I would need a strike water temp of 163 to do a mash at 152 in a preheated cooler using the following equation: Strike Water Temperature Tw = (.2/R)(T2 - T1) + T2 So I did that--added the grain and was WAY low--145...