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I was just alerted to a national “holiday” tomorrow that I am dumbfounded for not already being aware of. Tomorrow (Saturday April 8, 2018) is apparently national beer day. A celebration is in order! http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5231694/national-beer-day

At the bar tonight I was discussing with a buddy about the many options for determining the level of beer remaining in a keg. While many of us rely on audio (ie. The wet “whoosh” Sound when your keg is empty), others want to get fancy with their digital tap lists, etc. There are a variety...

I'm planning a beer to brew in a month or so in an effort to have it ready at the beginning of my favorite time of year, college football season. As a faithful Texas A&M Aggie fan (haters gonna hate), I'd like to brew a beer in celebration of the team. While I'm not stuck on a specific style...

I've got a chest freezer with STC-1000 that I use for controlling my ferm temp. It's been unplugged for the last month or so and I plugged it in this afternoon to start prepping for brew night. After a few hours with no change in temperature and no "cold spots" on the walls inside I became...

I'm bottling an IPA tomorrow that didn't ferment down as much as expected. Can I still treat it "like normal" in terms of the amount of priming sugar? Longer story...I kind I messed this one up. My OG was 1.068 but I under pitched my S-05 and/or under-oxygenated and it stuck at 1.026. I tried...

I just found out that SWMBO has to work this weekend which leaves me with an unexpected and unplanned opportunity to brew something. I was going to go my LHBS tomorrow for some grain and yeast (will probably double pitch since I won't have time for a starter). In any case, I've got some hops in...

I feel like I ought to know the answer to this question and have tried to find it by searching the forums. Somebody *has* to have asked this before but I'm not finding it. During a boil a bit after hop additions, I get some trub type material around the edge of pot just above the...

The last couple of brews I've done, I did a starter for my yeast (using White Labs and have used a few different strains). Anyhow, just before pitching the yeast starter into my 5 gallons or wort, I sanitized the original white labs tube with star San and poured some of the starter back into it...

I have a large piece of 3/8" thick aluminum sheet metal (2'x2') and was considering cutting it up and bolting it together to build a plate chiller. Aluminum doesn't conduct thermally quite as well as copper but still pretty well and I figure I've got enough to make a pretty decent stack. My...