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I just got back into brewing after a few years off and decided to do my first all grain batch. I found a recipe for a saison and decided to do an 11 gallon batch so I could split it up and try some different things. I put the info into beersmith and it told me to mash in at 150 with roughly...

I'm looking at buying a new brew kettle and I had a quick question. I currently am brewing five gallon batches but plan on doing ten gallons in the future. Would a fifteen gallon kettle be too big to brew five gallon batches on? I would like to buy a 15 gallon kettle now so I don't have to...

I recently kegged a batch of beer and I just found out that I will be moving in two weeks. I have co2 on the beer now and it will stay on til we move, will this travel alright or is there something else I should do?

I have an analog Johnson Temperature Control that I have used with my chest freezer since December 2009. The unit works great and I have the original paperwork that came in the box. I am having troubles attaching a picture so if you would like one, send me a private message and I will email...

This is probably a dumb question but I am going to brew a variation of Apfelwein and I picked up a few bottles of Cranberry/Raspberry juice and it says 100% juice. But in the ingredients citric acid is listed, will this still work? I've only made a few batches of wine so I wanted to make sure...

I just kegged a batch of beer the other day and realized that I didn't attach my beer line to the keg. My question is do I need to take the line off and sanitize it again or should it be alright to just hook it up and start pouring? Everything was completely sanitized when I kegged the beer...

I'm brewing a Belgian Wit tonight and I'm not really sure what temperature I should set my temperature control on my chest freezer. I know fermentation will cause the wort to be warmer than the air temperature, so any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Heading to Vegas next week and I'm looking for some good places to drink? I've been to the Sin City brewing and the 777 brewery inside Main St. Station. Thanks

I'm pretty new to the kegging and I just went to pour myself a nice IPA and realized my C02 is empty. Will the beer be fine for a day or two til I can get the co2 refilled? Just kegged the batch less than a month ago. Thanks for all the help.

I just got my stuff in to add a second tap to my kegerator and had a quick question. Do I need to clean my lines with oxyclean before I use them or just sanitize everything? I cleaned the keg with oxyclean, just wondering if I should clean the lines as well. Thanks.

I just brewed a Bridgeport IPA clone from Austin Homebrew and was considering dry hopping it. My question is what hops should I use? Or should I just follow the directions and not dry hop? I know by dry hopping it won't taste exactly like Bridgeport IPA, but I was wanting to give it a try...

I live in Oklahoma so our beer choices are rather poor. I just found some stores online that will ship beer to me but I'm a little hesitant to give someone a copy of my drivers license. Anyone tried this before?

I'm about to brew a Belgian Witbier and had a few questions about my fermentation temperature. I know that my ideal temp is low 70s but my house generally climbs into the upper 70's during the summer, is this going to be a big problem? If so what can I do to keep the temperature down, besides...

I brewed my beer on Thursday night and still have yet to see any signs of activity in my airlock. Should I be worried or is this normal? The only reason I am worried is that 1. this is my first batch and 2. when i pitched my yeast my wort was around 60 degrees. Any help is greatly appreciated.

So I finally got around to racking my beer into my new kegging setup and had a few quick questions. I've seen some videos on you tube of people disassembling a corny keg and when they did the poppet valves would come out of the post and also the gas in tube would come off of the post. When I...

So my kegerator is done and I'm about to rack my beer into the keg but I have a quick question. I just got this keg and it has been cleaned and all o-rings are new. I know its good to completely disassemble the keg and sanitize the posts and all the other little parts after every few batches...

I just got my kegerator setup and was wondering what the taste differences are between force carbing. Is it better to set it at 10-12 psi and serve in ten days, or is the taste pretty much the same to set it at 35psi and wait 36 hours? Also with setting it at 35 psi should I shake the keg or...

So I just ordered my keg setup and was going to clean everything before i racked my beer into it but I had a question first. Is it alright to clean the keg with oxyclean or should i use PBW? And if oxyclean is alright, then can i leave some soaking in the keg for thirty minutes or will this...

I was wondering if it was alright to rack to my secondary even if my final gravity was still a little high? It has been in the fermenter for exactly a week now. I know that my FG will come down a bit in the secondary but I was still wondering if this was alright? Thanks in advance for all the...

I have a friend that owned a paintball field and he told me he would sell me his 50lbs tank for $50. Is this going to be way to big? I know most people use the smaller tanks, but for $50 I figured this would be a great deal. Cheers