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I've never emptied a tank in the years I've had a kegging system, I've had a leak twice and lost all my CO2 that way. I know I had a leak as it went empty within a day of messing with the system (new keg, etc). This time I came home from a week long vacation and found my Co2 tank empty. I...

I've seen the chart here, probably from Bobby_M or FlyGuy that shows how much grain I can get into a 10 Gal (or 5) MLT but I can't find it despite various searches. Anyone able to lend me a hand and have the link handy, I'd appreciate it. :mug:

Last Saturday 4 members of HBT here (and also INHBC) along with another home brewer attended the SweetWater Brew Your Cask Off. SweetWater brewed the beers and gave 75 different contestants 10 gallons of either a porter or a blonde type ale, 10 gal cask and your choice of ingredients. In 3...

I made 2 batches of PM before I went AG and kegged them. They were carbed at 12 PSI at around 40F. I didn't care for either and was anxious to get my AG on tap so moved them out thinking I'd re-add them later but never have. I'm giving the beer to my co-worker would like them but he'll have to...

Oxygen bottles and their homebrew regulators/oxygen stone for them are left-hand threaded. This is in case anyone searches on why the F their new oxygenation system won't thread after a long brew day and a few beers. :tank:

I believe it's the first time I have used the keg (I have 4, can only hook up 2 at a time) but a beer I put in a week ago is now sour. I sanitized the keg twice, once when I bought it bought it an put new rings on and just before racking my beer with StarSan. The beer is a double simcoe ipa...

Meetup at the Sweetwater Brewery in Atlanta L-R: JohnnyC, Steverino, Brewiz, Beerrific & SWMBO, MikeG

I've recently switched to AG and 3 of the 4 recipe's I've used call for more strike/sparge water than my 30qt boil pot can handle. This weekend on my 4th batch I mashed in 17# of grain with ~5.3 gal of strike water, sparged with 3 gal as per the directions which filled my 30qt pot and I began...

I'm about to do my 3rd all grain, the instructions aren't as spelled out as the two Ed Wort recipes I've tried so was hoping to get a little help. I plan on brewing tomorrow with the following Mash Profile: (Recipe) The recipe has 16lb of grain. My understanding for this schedule is to...

Last weekend I bottled a batch of Apfelwein and my first batch of AG. Normally I will just put a letter code on the cap to indicate what it is but since I pull my caps out of a bowl filled with Star-San I wait until they dry to mark them. In my head I know which is which but the wife decided...

Brewed my first AG, Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale. My OG was 1.047, a few points below the expected 1.051 using the FlyGuy 10 Gal cooler. I didn't stir my mash-out water into the grains, other than that have no idea what else I didn't do correctly so felt everything went smooth. My mash temp...

I decided to use my new MT (FlyGuy design) for a PM recipe I already purchased and experiment before going AG. I didn't exactly follow the recipe (should have) and my after adding ~5qt of water @168F to my 3.5G of grains and stirred my temp was ~144F. Not really doing this before I was...

Not sure what I was thinking...I added 1 oz of pellet hops to my corny keg thinking when I hooked it up it would just flush right out. As obvious as it is now, it definitely won't work. Word of advice; if anyone out there isn't thinking as clearly as I wasn't...don't do it. The valves are...

1) It's hard to get in Atlanta 2) it's expensive 3) the bottles don't have paper labels..but damn, they are so good. Hopefully I'll get sick of this brand soon (doubtful) :tank:

Taking pics with new camera, ~5 min left in the boil and first time trying 6.5 gal boil: Next: I didn't realize it until later I got a shot just before the boilover. Ugh, what a mess. I'll stick to 6 gal max in that 30qt pot. :mug:

While I know it can be done both ways, it seems most carb it. I bottle conditioned some EW Apfelwein but I can't say I'm crazy about the carbination, reminds me too much of champagne instead of wine. Anyhow, I have 5 gallons of cider in a primary (5+ weeks) that I'm ready to bottle but...

I'm not very diligent with taking readings from my carboy's but after racking to a bottling bucket mixed with 5oz of priming sugar (5 gal ferment, ~4.75 gal after racking) how much would that affect my FG? Specifically, after 5 weeks I racked a Apfelwein that had gone clear to a bottling bucket...

My Ed Wort's Apfelwein (exact recipe) is now clear enough to read a newspaper through my carboy so I'm ready to bottle. I plan on using my commercial 12oz brown bottles (Sam Adams mostly), any problems with this? Thanks! :mug:

So I order a Sam Adams on draft at a local restaurant last weekend and when it comes out it looks like SA (lager) and smells like it but clearly a 'light' beer of some kind (I mean diet, not light colored). I send it back but they tell me they don't have any light beers on tap but brings a...

I have one of these, Micromatic Tower and went to open a tap that's been closed for over a month that was pretty sticky and broke the handle so I need to replace it. Anyone happen to know if I order a perlick can I easily replace this or will I need some kind of adapter? I'm fairly ignorant of...