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Hit 72% efficiency dead-on... but not without some hiccups. I quickly found that my chugger pump is a pain in the butt to prime, and I lost a good deal of sparge water and wort due to that. the other slightly annoying thing is I couldn't get the mash to stabilize at a good temp. Fired...

This weekend I made my first 15gal batch of a Summer cream ale. They go toward gifts mostly to friends for summer trips and such. I decided to play around with some fermentation temps to see how this yeast reacts. It is my house yeast for the most part, so I've been curious to see. Each...

- 4 year old 12 cubic foot chest freezer - 3 ball lock corny kegs - 5lb CO2 bottle with regulator. - 3 tap gas manifold with 3 cheapo chrome taps - Temp controller with probe - ball lock fittings for the gas side only This is a no brainer, right? Just the kegs and freezer alone are...

First off, please don't get your hopes up. The builds here and in the DIY section are, in most cases, masterpieces. Simply put, I'm a hack. This thread will document and gather suggestions on how to properly equip the space. First, the room- and an attached, unfinished closet...

By some strange stroke of luck/randomness, I got a call from my dad this morning. Apparently, the job site that he's working at (a pharmaceutical manufacturer) is liquidating all of their old eyewash stations to update to some newfangled technology. Why is this relevant? Well, because their...

I'm fermenting a vanilla porter with the above strain, and getting one hell of a pungeant sulfur smell from the blowoff tubing. Everything looks normal- good kreusen, no visible signs of infection/issues, and had a good vigorous (>1 bubble/second) activity level for a solid 3 days. The...

I have a new system and i'm about 5 degrees to the cool side off on my beersmith strike water temps compared to where my mash settles in at. Is there an easy way to account/correct for that in the system aside from changing my mash tun heat loss ratio? Thanks...

Hi all. I'm new to the forum, and I have a question. I was out at a local brewery last night where I had a nice discussion with the brewmaster. I asked him in a joking manner that he should sell me some base malt off of his deliveries to save me some money. Off the cuff, he said it wouldn't...