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Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a Jockey Box for a fundraiser this weekend? I'm located in Norwalk, Connecticut but I'd be happy to drive as far as Branford...

Life is good. We enjoy a range of activities while drinking homebrew. This is inherently safe in most cases because most homebrewing activities can be easily and safely accomplished while drinking a few homebrews. The same is not true about some very specific homebrewing activities, and...

Tough brew day Sunday. Stepped up grain bill on an APA I've brewed before so I could sparge a little less deeply but still hit my numbers. The readings I was getting on the refract were whack. I ended up trusting them and added a gallon of water before the boil. Mistake! This turned out to be...

I'm sending out an email to a few of my local peeps inviting them to my basement taproom tomorrow evening in honor of the day. I'll also be celebrating the tapping of a Red Rye Pale Ale (a fast carb sample using a carb-cap was pretty sweet!). I've also got an American Pale Ale and a DIPA on tap...

I recently replaced the probe on my Hanna pHep 5. This fixed some strange readings I was getting during calibration and measurement. Now I see a different problem: When I measure the pH of my tap water, which I do while setting up for every brew, or my sparge water to check on the...

i dry hopped 10g of pliny clone this evening. 4.5 ozs tomahawk pellets, 1.5 ozs each simcoe and centennial whole leaf. for whatever reason I decided to free range the hops. maybe it was something I read in Vinny's article about allowing the hops to float down through the beer. anyway - here's...

I've been brewing a lot of variety recently, and I've even more recently brought my kegerator online. So now I'm thinking about settling down a bit and having four beers that are always on tap - my house brews. I'm all for appealing to the unwashed (BMC) masses with something easy to like...

American Rye, fermenting now for 40 days. i know it's probably fine - that's perfectly normal RDWHAHB, right?

I got the chance at my local bottle shop and bought a bottle at Christmas time. I've had it cellaring for over a year and now I'm thinking of selling it. Anyone on the forum have any experience selling Sam Adams Utopias 2013? I know advertising it for sale isn't allowed on this forum and ebay.

Hi all. I've been reading various posts, including Matt Chrispen's excelentblog entry on this (http://accidentalis.com/archives/735) and I've come up with my own spin on Matt's design. I thought Matt's design was really cool because it incorporated it's own low pressure gauge and dedicated...

Never seen this before... Pre-boil target gravity: 1.044 Pre-boil actual gravity: 1.048 Close enough, right? And in any case, seems like the result of good conversion. Temps and pH's of mash were all good, so this makes sense. Boil for 60 minutes. Post-boil target gravity (O.G.): 1.055...

Saturday, I'm planning to brew the 4th in my brewversity beers. I've organized Jamil's recipe collection of Brewing Classic Beers into an order to group ingredients so I can buy 6 brews-worth at a time (same/similar grains and yeast). My goal is to brew at least one new beer from the book...

I've been planning this for some time. I really like the tappedbeer.com towers, but just didn't want to pay their prices. Though their work is awesome, and their prices reasonable for what you get, I am just a cheap bastard and I was pretty sure I could do it myself. I didn't underestimate the...

How can I scale a recipe to the efficiency of my setup, and achieve the volumes I'm looking for, without adding any mash runnings less than 1.008 in gravity, all without overshooting the wort OG. It's a classic three parameter optimization and I don't know how to fix it. Here's what's...

Something went wrong here. I scaled a Honey Pale Ale recipe down based on expected efficiencies and also to lower the ABV to about 6.2%. What ended up happening is that before I had collected sufficient wort, the SG of the runnings went down to 1.008 so I had to stop collecting or risk high...

...and now I'm three days in to the fermentation of my Imperial Stout and the activity is crashing big time. I looked in on it this morning and noticed that the bubbling has dropped off to once every 20 seconds. I didn't understand it, so I looked back at my brew-log notes and realized I hadn't...

In his Brewing a DIPA/Pliny the Elder article, Vinnie at Russian River suggests rousing with CO2 from the bottom of a conical during dry hopping. While this sounds like a good technique, I'm not sure how I would approach this. What little bits of gear, and what technique do I need to do...

I have two beers fermenting that are both suffering from the same ailment: very strong rubber/band-aid odors and flavor. This is my first for band-aid and I almost lost it when I smelled it - couldn't have imagined what a band-aid odor was before but now I will never forget it. If you haven't...

I'm prepping to brew for the very first time using my new ElectricBrewery setup. I was getting good, consistent efficiency on my old system - total brewhouse efficiency was 73-75%. For the new system, I'm expecting to get 85% (I know that seems high, but this is a Kal Electric brewery setup, and...

Looking to buy this punch for a Kal kettle conversion. Plz PM me - thx!