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I know a lot of people built their keezers using the trusty Frigidaire 7.2 featured in this famous thread Converting the Frigidaire 7.2 cu ft Chest Freezer. I did as well and she stopped working last week. Replaced the temperature control thermostat, the compressor start relay and the run...

An employee is headed to Waterloo in a couple of weeks and offered to bring back some brews we can't get here in DFW. I've got no clue what to tell him, but don't want to waste the opportunity. Got any recommendations?

I started this extract kit two weeks ago everything went well. I tried some new (to me) procedures like steeping in .75 gallon of water per pound of grain, a late addition of 5 of the total 8 pounds of LME ten minutes before the end of the boil, made my first starter with my handy new...

Bear with me, I'll try not to ramble. I have a chest freezer that I use as a fermentation chamber. It will hold two carboys. I normally leave my brews in the chamber at a yeast happy temp from start to finish. So far, this has been enough to keep up with the rate I brew. I'm ramping up...

My first day went very well except in my haste to pitch the yeast I was proud of myself for re-hydrating, I forgot to get an original gravity reading. Is it too late? I'm afraid to disturb or remove any yeast by using my thief after I've pitched. Thoughts?