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So I am tired of keeping my cornies and gas tank in the basement fridge and was thinking of either using a kegorator or building a keezer. I found someone selling 2 beverage air kegorators without towers for 350 obo each. Which means that I would have to make/buy a tower. Or, I can get a new...

I am planning on brewing an English ipa that called for Target for bittering and ekg for aroma. Any issues if I sub magnum for the bittering? I will take into account the ibus. Even thinking about a fwh to smooth it out a bit.

I have been doing lots of reading and watching and I have a couple of questions. I picked up a Sixpack of Oberon yesterday and put it in the fridge. It was the freshest bell's I could find and was bottled in late june. I was planning on using 4 bottles or more to add to a weak dme starter...

So I scored a couple of vials of expired San Diego super yeast and decided to add both to a 1ltr starter. I used the calculator on the brew united site and all was looking good until I went to transfer to a 2 ltr bottle so I could chill and decant. About 10 minutes after I turned off the stir...

So I dry hopped a pale ale today, well after fermentation was complete. I am using conan yeast and would like to have it forced carbed by Saturday. I am thinking, crash it Monday night, geletin tues night, keg and force carb Thurs night. Pull a sample for a mtg Saturday. Thoughts?

So I made a starter of Conan yeast from a free vial that was expired. I did a step starter and now I just need a good recipe other than heady. Any suggestions? (All grain).

So with the summer months, my water is not as cold as it is in the winter and I am having trouble getting down to pitching temps. So, thinking about going with a small pump and pumping cold water through the im chiller or building another Chiller and putting that chiller into a bucket of ice...

So does anyone know the evaporation rate of corny kegs? I know there is no way I could have drank that much!

So at my last brewing event, I was lucky enough to score two vials of San Diego super yeast that had expired on 5-13-15. Now I just did my first yeast with a starter and had great results. Anybody have any tips or guidance on saving this? Thanks!

So I am going to use a liquid yeast and starter for the first time. I am planning on a wheat beer using a kolsh yeast (wlp 029). I ran the numbers and am concerned about using the flask. It says to make 2liters, and I am using a stir plate, but what about the krausen? If I have a big...

So I want to make two brews in two days with two different yeasts. This will be my first time using liquid yeast. I have a 2l beaker and a stir starter. The one yeast I want to use is an expired Sandiego super yeast and the other is a white labs kolsch yeast. Can I make a starter plus some...

So life and poor planning got the best of me. I Have 5 gallons of sierra Nevada clone that I dry hopped Saturday morning, I started cold crashing tues. am and put gelatin in the corney this am (weds.) I was thinking of putting it on 30 psi either tonight (weds ) or Thursday am, hoping to...

So I brewed a 10 gallon batch of sierra Nevada clone last sunday. I had the carboys in the basement where the temps are in the low 60's. Both yeasts took off quite well and have since gone quiet and both krausen have fallen. I was thinking about bringing both upstairs to finish off and to dry...

I brewed a northern English mild on sunday and after rehydration the nottingham, pitched it after giving the wort a 60 second shot of oxygen. The wort was cooled to around 65 and placed in the basement. As of yet, I am seeing no activity. I brought the carboy up to the kitchen thinking that...

So I have a couple of kegs that I bought used that have plastic dip tubes. For anyone that has encountered this before, do you replace the plastic tubes or drill out the holes and replace with metal ones? By the way, the existing plastic ones are pretty mangled.

So I have 5 gallons of yooper's pale ale and a bell's 2 hearted clone. I threw in my hops into the primary after two weeks and after fermentation was done. The hops have been in there for 3 days and I was thinking of putting the carboys in the fridge to crash. Should I wait for 7 to 10 days...

Sorry for my newbie question. I have my second and third batches fermenting and am almost at the two week mark in the primaries. The one is da yoopers pale ale and the other is a bell's two hearted clone. I had pretty good starts to both and now the have slowed down. I am using 6.5 gallon...

So I brewed a batch of da yooper's pale ale and a bell's 2 hearted clone, Saturday and Sunday. I used nottingham for yooper's and the 05 for the bells. Yooper's was Saturday and og was 1.057. Bells was Sunday and og was 1.061. Obviously the nottingham showed signs first and produced a nice...

Sorry if the title is misleading, not debating the two, just showing pics of the crousen. The nottingham was pitched Saturday and the 05 on sunday. The nottingham was used on yooper's pale ale and the 05 with a bell's two hearted clone. Marris otter vs regular 2row. The nottingham is on the left.

So I have an abundance of magnum hop pellets, a lb of 2013 and a lb of 2014. All of which are sealed and in the freezer. I am looking at "yooper's house pale ale" and bell's two hearted. These call for either all cascade or all Centennial. How about replacing the 60 minute hops in both with...