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Is there any reason that this cart couldn't be used as a single-tier brew-stand? It's selling for $129, which is a LOT cheaper than the other sculptures I've seen. I think it does come with burners but, even if it didn't, at $12.99 each, buying them separately only bumps the total price up...

I was thinking of adding dark wheat malt to an American IPA for color, body, and head proteins. I could just use a darker crystal, but I don't like the cloying sweetness or roastyness it would add. I'm concerned, though, that the wheat will result in astringency. Has anyone tried this...

I recently filled twelve bottles from a keg; for the first time that I've done this, the bottles turned out a little flat. My theory is that the beer was flat(ish) in the keg. It was the tail end of the keg, and it had been on nothing but, maybe, 6psi for weeks. But I'm also concerned...

I'm pitching bugs into a golden strong I'm going to sour this weekend. I don't use glass carboys, and plastic isn't really appropriate for year-long aging, particularly since I'm using pedio (which isn't very oxygen tolerant.) Instead, I'm drilling through the lid of a keg, putting in a...

Tomorrow I'm brewing a Belgian Golden Strong with the recipe from Brewing Classic Styles. The recipe calls for three pounds of simple sugar - in order to get a clean fermentation of the maltose, I usually reserve the sugar until after fermentation is already well underway, and then add it to the...

IPAs are most of what I brew, and, as a result, my trub is usually pretty hoppy. As a result, I've struggled with yeast rinsing for years. Recently, I tried to get started top-cropping, but I've been disappointed with the volume of yeast I collect that way, and I don't much care for the risk...

OK, so it seems like my beer is carbonated, and I want to pour a sample glass. When I went to pull the tap handle though. . . . . . nothing came out! Here's what I've done so far: (1) I pulled the safety valve to check if there was any pressure in the keg: there definitely is. (2)...

I just built my first kegerator and put my kegging kit together for the first time. Very excited! I did, however, run into a few road-blocks I could use some advice about: First off, the connection between my gas line and my gas-in post was pretty leaky and, no matter how tight I tried to...

Lowes is currently selling a 4.4 cu. ft. compact fridge for $149.99, which is $30 savings. Before I bought it, I was hoping to confirm that the fridge would work on this site, but there was no thread that had given the thumbs up to that particular model number. I took a flyer on it, and it...

My wife and I are renovating, and we replaced the faucet in the kitchen with a pull-down nozzle. I can unscrew the nozzle to reveal the inner piece (the one without an aerator) but it's not a standard size, and my old faucet-to-garden-hose adapter doesn't work. That means there's no way to...

The SIGG water bottles are about the right shape and size, and you can get them for nothing these days. I'm thinking you could buy two, drill through the bottom of one a couple times to create a false bottom, cut the second one in half, and attach the top of one bottle to the bottom of the...

I pitched a Classic American Pilsner on December 19, 2010 - a day short of a month ago. I've kept it fermenting at a constant 45F using WLP800 since then. A week ago I let the beer rise to 65F for a 48 hour diacetyl rest. A few days later I planned to transfer to a secondary vessel for...

I'm converting a 4.4 cu ft mini-fridge to fit a single corny-keg using the "Standard Homebrew Kegerator Conversion Kit" from beveragefactory.com. I was planning to drill through the door, and put the tap on the front of the fridge. Since the fridge sits on a shelf, I assumed that would make...

This is a question that's been asked before, but my specific solution hasn't been suggested, and I want to get a consensus before I try it: I was planning to brew an extract pilsener today to get the basic recipe settled before I move to an all-grain batch. I grabed flaked maize, thinking I...

I just moved, and I finally got around to inventorying the brewing supplies that made the trip with me. This is kind of a kitchen sink beer, made with the leftovers of whatever I had on hand. In order to keep it interesting, I decided to "continuously" hop the beer with Northern Brewer in...

Last year I brewed a spice beer from Northern Brewer for Christmas. Ordinarily I don't get kits, but I was busy, didn't have a spice beer recipe on hand, and wanted something simple and guaranteed to be good. It sat for 15 days in the primary, and then 14 days in secondary, and then I bottled...

People have been telling me it's time to move away from immersion sanitizing my bottles and fermentation vessels. I'm not ready to invest in a bottle tree yet - immersion chiller comes first, and I need to build a better fermentation cabinet - but could I save some water/starsan by filling a...

I brewed up an All-Amarillo IPA two-and-a-half weeks ago, and it was a total S#!T show; forgot to oxygenate, forgot to sanitize the lid, didn't have enough hops bags for all the additions, and ended up having to ferment the whole thing at 62F. Last weekend, I had a brew-mergency, and needed...

I use dried bitter orange peel in my summer hefeweisens. My wife has been eating TONS of blood oranges in the last few weeks. Can I use the blood orange peels instead of the bitter orange peels? Are they the same thing? What kind of differencesin flavor should I expect?

I bought a vial of San Francisco Lager Yeast (WLP 810) maybe. . . six months ago. Since then it's been sitting in my refrigerator, inside of an insulated cooler. I'm brewing a California Common on Sunday. I had planned to pitch the vial of WLP 810 into a 1L starter on Saturday night...