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Hi All, I've done a few other split batch experiments and thought I would try something more subtle: Belgian yeast vs Belgian yeast. Summary: 3864 (Canadian/Belgian) vs 1214 (Belgian Abbey) - can't taste any difference. Recipe: Belgian Blonde* 10.5 Gallons. 22# Pils 6oz Goldings "Burst" at...

Can anyone explain why I've only been able to find a particular delicious malty sweetness in >7.5% beers? Examples that have it are: Royal IPA by Big Rock, Salty Scots (scotch ale) by Parellel 49 and Shiny Penny (IPA) by Townsite Brewery and a barely wine I have made. With the IPAs especially...

There is a bit of info out there about what you can expect above recommended temps with Ale yeasts but what if you were too cool? Just hypothetically, say you had set your STC1000 to 11c and not 21c and put a dark belgian in there for like... 2 months. Highly unlikely, I know, but lets just...

Pretty interested in electric brewing. I am in a rental and don't have access to any of the powery things. I do have easy access to my stove plug (looks like this: http://imgur.com/FEcwGic). Is there any reason I can't plug into this for brew days? Assuming use of GFCI cable, which is always...

Moved my STC from a keggorator to a ferm chamber and it will not let me set the temp over 10c (50F)! Is this normal? Is there a work around? thanks!

Hi All, Long story short -> pirate themed party, need beer with 7 "C" ingredients. I am thinking IPA, need 4 or 5 hops that start with the letter C and will mesh well together. The other Cs will come from the malts (carapils and one or two cyrstals) Here is a list of C hops I can think of...

Planning a Belgian Imperial Stout. I recently had a very awesome, almost cherry flavoured stout at a homebrew meeting and want to do something similar. The plan is to put this in a "wine barrel": 2 oz of oak chips soaked in a homemade blackberry wine. I'd probably just dump the ~1/2 liter of...

Anyone one know the fittings needed to go from a corny post to a camlock (male)? To specify I'd like to remove the quick release (gas or liquid) and install an elbow to a camlock. I will use this Corny as a HLT. Thanks!

I've just picked up a pair of the standard propane burners like this: http://www.tejassmokers.com/images/cast06.jpg for cheap on craigslist. They are rusted pretty bad. Any reason I can't paint the outside of them with a high temp bbq paint? I posted this because I could only find things about...

Got a decent 50 foot 3/8 SS wort chiller, works excellently but, as you can see it has a mean slant. It was a little slanted out of the box but got really bad after moving it around during chilling. I've played with the hose clamps but cant really make any improvements on the shape. Anyone else...

Hi All, Need to get a new wort chiller and am wondering how the total time to cooling is effected with the following systems. I know there is various debate about cooling and hop flavours, cold break and DMS production but I am interested mostly in time (and water usage). I expect someone savvy...

Hi All, I've done quite a bit of research on HERMS systems which seem to be much more popular than RIM, so I thought it might be the way to go. It occurs to me that a RIM system could have some great advantages that I have not seen discussed at length. I should clarify that I value time. If I...

My CO2 tank is outside my keggorator. The whole in the fridge is not large enough to pass the grey quick release through, so if I want to go elsewhere with my kegs I usually end up cutting off an inch of my CO2 supply line so that I can get it free of the regulator. Are there any quick...

Hi All, I have a keggle which I would like to use for distilling. As the name implies it has had the top cut off. Unwisely, in a fit of spring cleaning I threw the top in the trash. Has anyone seen a nice lid job on a keggle? I've thought about how to make something that can take the pressure...

Skip to the bold at the bottom for the twist. Have a scotch drinking friend coming to town and I want to win him over with homebrewing. He also likes IPAs. I have scotch ale and barely wine on hand so I thought a high gravity oaked IIPA might be just right. ABV 8.4 OG 1.086 IBU 65.5 Color...

Standard turkey deep fryer burner was burning yellow and producing soot. I: 1) pulled it apart 2) brushed it with steel wool 3) coated it with motor oil 4) let it soak for ~1 hour 5) wiped off extra oil 6) reassembled and proudly observed epic blue flames. Thought I would post as I...

Working with what I have - trying to save myself a trip to the LHBS. Going for a sweet and fruity IPA. Also looking to clean out the hops in my freezer. Brewing tomorrow and would happily take comments. 12# 2-row pale malt 1/2# honey malt 1/4# cara-pils Hop mix of chinook, cascade...

About 3 weeks ago I made a nice starter from a slap pack of 3787 and put a little extra in the fridge (culture tubes filled to the top ~15ml each). I tried to get it going again and did not get any activity even after a couple of days. Can anyone explain why this could have happened? I know I...

Just noticed that changing the grain bill changes the IBU of a beer even with the same hops. Also, it seems to have the opposite relationship I would have expected - making a beer bigger brings the IBUs down. Can anyone explain why this is the case? Thanks!

Is there anywhere I can use ingredients to search for recipes? I know this exists for cooking. I'd like to use up some aging hops and also not make another trip to the LHBS. Thanks