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All-grain homebrew equipment for sale. $600 for everything, individual pricing below. Hand built, goof quality equipment. If you built this now, it would cost over $1200. This system served me well for years...ran above 75-80% efficiency. Everything brass, glass, copper, or stainless except for...

Hi, So I've recently relocated to the Charlotte, NC area from PA and I finally got to do some brewing last Sunday. I made a dark British Mild with some leftover Maris Otter I had. Brew day was uneventful (a good thing) and I hit OG 1.040 (little better efficiency, I was shooting for around...

Hi, I've been slowly chipping away at making a fully automated, electric brewery for about 6 months now. Up until now, I've been focusing on the sensing, display, and user interface components, mainly because my current house doesn't have 240V hookups in my little detached garage. Big news...

Woah. Cautionary tale. I was getting ready to bottle my brown ale. I had a bottling bucket full of star san, and noticed it was getting a bit murky. So, I decided to dump it and pour fresh. My star san dispensing container was getting empty, so I took one of those mini refill bottles of...

I really enjoy this beer. It's not a super hop-monster like many American IPAs have become. It's a nice, aromatic beer that won't lay you on your butt immediately. The bitterness is subdued, and the character of the Citra and Sorachi Ace come through. Lots of tasters were surprised about...

Hi, I've been taking a fairly slow approach with developing my automated eHerms brewery. I'm still in initial stages. I plan to source most of my parts, but I'm building my PID and automation off the Arduino platform. One of the things I wanted to look into is controlling the in-line...

They say form follows function. Very true. Take a look at my Supah' Ghetto mash tower. The problem is my tubing is long, but I can't force myself to cut it because I need the length for other applications. To get the proper flow from by MT to my BK, I created Supah' Gheto Mash Tower. It's...

Hi, I was brewing my Southern Tier Imperial Pumking clone today. My grain bill was: 14 lbs - Briess 2-row 3 lbs - Pumpkin puree 1 lbs - Caramel 80L 1 lbs - Rice hulls Some crushed up graham crackers Based on all my calculations, both in Brewtarget and on several websites, my strike...

So, I brew with one 70K BTU propane burner with a keggle HLT and BK, and a 10 gallon cooler MT. As I lifted my HLT off the burner with about 3 gallons of 185ish water in it (just sparged and since my sight glass doesn't read till 3ish gallons) and moved it down to the bottom of my driveway for...

So I did my first AG batch the other week, creating a semi-clone of Yooper's APA. My set up is a converted keggle HLT and BK and a 10gallon Tun with copper manifold. I set up the BK to have a side pickup so I could use my homebuilt immersion chiller and stir like a madman tg create a whirlpool...

Hi, I recently built my AG setup. I'm mashing in a 10 gallon cooler, but my HLT and BK are both converted kegs. For my BK, I went with a weldless fitting and whirlpool side pickup from bargainfittings.com. After installation, I decided to do a dry run with just water to get a sense of my...

Hi, I think it's sheer insanity that we don't have an organized homebrewing club in Johnstown. Well, I take that back...apparently, there are one or two clubs out there, but I can't really peg down when/where they meet. I go down to PA Fine Wines and Winemaking down in Windber when possible...

Hi, I realize that Diacetyl gets a bad rap, and for the most part, it's well deserved. Evil almost. However, I'm rethinking one of my fall pumpkin beers and want to increase the "butteriness" by upping the levels of diacetyl. I know that underpitching can produce higher levels of D. Are...

Hi, I just started all-grain brewing, but I am a hobbyist who enjoys all things computers and programming. My current setup is two converted kegs for my HLT and Kettle, and a 10 gallon cooler for my MLT. I have some experience with using the Arduino Uno. I have read a lot of good things...

So, I am finally scaling up to All Grain! Woohoo. I've been brewing for about 2 years now. I followed the wiki for converting a bev cooler to a mash tun using a 10 gallon cooler from Lowes. I went with the SS Toilet Supply approach for the screen. I got the center out with no problem...