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Hi All I want to verify no heavy metals (especially lead) are leaking from my equipment, is there any kit I can get that will achieve this?, I don't have any private labs in my country that can perform this test. 10x

Hi I just got my post back after installing heating elements, and I noticed that there are yellow metal inside, I asked the person who install it if it is brass but he said no and it is silver??? Yellow?? Maybe I heated him wrong, anyway I attached a picture please tell me what you think and...

Hi All Anyone have weihenstephan clone recipe? Especially the festbeer 7.7% . 10x

Hi All I Recently read that installing an Electrical heating element is not recommended because of the Electrolysis process, is it correct? if so will an external hot plate is possible (as there is no direct contact with the water)? Thanks

Hi All I was wondering if I can use a 2000W hot plate for my homebrew, the concern of course is a rolling Boil, do you think it is possible and if yes for what batch size? Also what about the portable Heating Elements they sell on eBay are they any good? 10x

Hi All I have some recipe in Beersmith with Double Infusion, and I entered my Equipment (the standard 5Gal beersmith Profile), in the Mash details I have the Following Steps: Protein Rest - 2.03 Gal Saccharification - 1.80 Gal Mash Out - 2.03 Gal Total: 6.57Gal (more than my 5Gal Mash...

Hi All I got new Aluminum, pots and when I received them they had some Grey powder on them that was removed quit easily with water, what is it? Also to create aluminum oxide [protective] coating I need to just boil in it right? the question is how frequently I should do it? before each brew...

Hi All After reading John.P: http://www.howtobrew.com/section3/chapter14-4.html and: http://morebeer.com/brewingtechniques/bmg/noonan.html and looked at the weyermann grains specifications. I still don't understand if I need single or double infusion. my recipe for a Paulaner Clone will...

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Hi All My recipe calls for Flaked Oats, and I don't have it anywhere in my country, if I use regular Quaker oats do I need to cereal mash it? Or just dump it in the mash with all the other grains? 10x

Hi All I was wondering if you have instructions how to build a cheap RO system? The prices in my country for one is crazy!!!! Thanks

Hi All Currently I don't have the equipment to Fly Sparge only Batch Sparge. I'm interested in two recipes of whet beer both by default was with Fly Sparge. the first one was a "Single Infusion-Light Body-No Mash out" (Fly Sparge) and i just changed the profile to "Single Infusion-Light...

Hi All Newb here, well I should get my water report soon (it take ages to get it in my country ) and I read a lot of threads, articles and on-line books but it seems that the more I read the more confusion I have and I must say that I'm very excited to begin homebrew and to be honest this is a...

Hi All I don't live in the US, and my city Water report doesn't include the Alkalinity parameter, i have Hardness, Calcium and Magnesium. According to john Palmer's book for determine the Beer Style I need to Calculate the RA (Residual alkalinity) with this formula: RA = Total Alkalinity –...

Hi All I want to use a freezer as a fermentation chamber and also for the bottles, of course I'm going to use a Temp Controller but my concern are what will happen if the Temp Controller will Fail? I don't want to risk bottles explodes because they frozen. Do you have any ideas how to avoid it...

Hi All I read a lot of threads here that it is better to have a Tester than the stripes so I set my mind on purchasing one, of course I have a budget limitation of less than 50$ do you have any recommendations? (It should have an option of replaceable probe unless it is really really chip and...

Hi All First I apologize for this question as I saw many threads about it (I learned from them how to calculate) but still I have one major question remains. As I understand (i maybe wrong) the ingredients bill can change according to my equipment efficiency right? And to calculate the...

Hi all I want to buy and Aluminum pots (Budget) for Boiling and sparge/Strike water. I found 2 pots: 31 litter Pot for Boiling - 2.5mm Thick 15 litter Pot for sparge/Strike water - 2mm Thick My question is does it thick enough (Without installing any weldless kit on it)? and if Yes will...

Hi All before my first batch I would like to get all information I can to avoid this (It is hunting me at night :)). I have a few question but any other suggestion will be great. 1. I read that making sure that fermentation ended is very important, the question is how do I know it is ended...

Hi All I'm doing Half Batches as I'm still experimenting. I entered the beer details to the Mr.Malty Calculator and it state that i don't need a starter at all for the Half batch. But I still want to have the yeast split for next Batch. I followed this article...