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Avid home brewer who would like to some day start a craft brewery. Reading up on the details around running a commercial brewery, I read that they have a massive amount of waste water.... like 3-5 bbl waste water per 1 bbl of beer. I’ve been racking my brains trying to figure out why it is so...

Bought this beer from a local craft brewery. It’s really cloudy, looks and tastes like a hoppy grapefruit juice. I quite like it. My question is more around how to make a beer hazy or cloudy, like this one or a blue moon style beer. And how would they get such a strong grapefruit taste... add...

Doesn’t look light enough to be yeast but I wanted to get an opinion.

I am looking for some opinions on the fastest way to test recipes. I have lots of recipes I want to try for a potential microbrewery setup so I’m looking at the fastest way to test them. I currently have a 20 gal HERMS system but that is too big to start refining recipes. Was looking at the...

Guys, scratching my head on this one. The last beer appears to be under-pitched. I did a double yeast starter getting my yeast count nearly double the recommended count. It fermented like crazy for a week through a blow off tube. Then settled down and now nothing. My gravity is still 20 points...

Hey guys, I am looking for a solution to regulate temps on 4 - 7 gal conical fermenters to 65-70F. Looking at the SS brewtech or morebeer conicals. Any suggestions? Would these fit in a 17 or 22 cuft deep freezer? I already have a Johnson temp controller to regulate temps. What are your...

I have been trying to get help with a new morebeer conical fermenter that I got for Christmas that I'm having problems with. After two weeks and about 6 emails I've received no response from them, except automated ticket numbers for my email submissions. About a week after the first submission...

This is a Karma Citra AG sitting in third fermenter. After secondary i transferred 5 gal to a keg and another 5 gal to third fermenter as I didn't have another keg available. It's sitting in a keeper at 68F. Looked great until I added a primary fermenter with recently brewed chocolate milk...

My lovely wife bought me a hop rocket for Christmas. I want to use it as a randalizer so I'm trying to figure out how to connect it to the beer line, without using the Blichmann connectors at $15/each. With a 1/2" NPT connector on the rocket there has got to be another solution? Any ideas...

So, I recently built and electric 20 gal all grain system and this weekend was to be my first AG through it. My neighbor decides that he will buy the 10 gal kit as he has drank a lot of my beer in the past. Knowing nothing about the brewing process, he goes out and gets a Dinkle Dunkleweizen...

Hey gang, So I'm new at the whole yeast starter thing but have done it on my last few beers, while each time saving a little for the next brew. Well I just did a 5 gal dead ringer IPA and after 2 weeks in primary I pulled this from the bottom. That's a 1 gal jug... It looks like yeast to...

Gang, Right now, like most of us, my co2 regulator is attached directly to my co2 tank. What I want to do is to attach a high pressure hose directly to the tank with the regulator on the other end so I can mount the regular up front in my kegerator while leaving the co2 bottle in the back...

So, for the 2nd or 3rd time, I've frozen a keg. Not solid but slushy. Every time, I've had to dump it because it flocculates. This one was no different as I just pored a glass and nothing but solids flowing in it. So my first quest is, what is this solid? Secondly, is there anything I can do...

I filled my brand new 20-gal MegaPot with water for the first time and immediately noticed several marks/stains around the bottom of the pot. (Attached). These were not there prior to filling with water. Does anyone have any idea what this might be, what caused it, and if it will affect...

I found a Wyeast lager smack pack in the back of my fridge that I kinda forgot about. It was 8 months (from manufacturing). So according to yeast calculators there is no viable yeast. Regardless, I smacked it and in 4 days it swelled up tight. So I ran it through a starter on a stir plate (1 cup...

Guys, I'm not from Texas but living here now and recently ordered an Erlenmeyer Flask from Amazon for a yeast starter. Then i find out that in this state i need a permit for one. being the law abiding person that i am, I sent in the request only to find out that i have to have a dedicated...

Guys, I'm am getting ready to brew my first all-grain this weekend and have been getting all my gear together and setup for the past few weeks. As part of this, I made a 36" mash paddle from walnut. Should this be coated with something? Block oil for example or just leave it as bare wood...

I've done yeast starters before using new packs of yeast with great success. But as i progress further into this hobby, i've started all-grain brewing and decided to reuse yeast from a previous batch. i'm not sure what you refer to this as - "Yeast Wrags" maybe??? So, during my last brew i...

First, let me apologize if this has already been discussed but i couldn't find the exact answer i was looking for. I am setting up a simple HERMS system for AG brewing. I have a keggle converted with 50ft-1/2" SS coil inside for the HLT and a 70QT MaxCold cooler for the MT. My question...

Guys, I am starting the design on my first/initial ebrewing setup. I have a 15.5 gal brew keggle and an 8gal tall boy brew kettle. Would the 8gal boil pot work as heat transfer medium or do I need a bigger pot? Plan on doing no more than 10 gal all grain. Thanks gang. Sent from my iPad using...