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Has anyone found a food-grade primer bulb for starting a siphon for hot water (HLT and sparging)? I was gifted a brew sculpture, and am ready to do my first all-grain beer. I'll get pumps and kettles with fittings in due time, but not within the next few weeks. I know I can fill the hose with...

Are campden tablets a good addition to tapwater if I’m just setting up a keg of just carbonated water?

Hi all. I started brewing a couple of years ago, but dragging out everything, and organizing it, and putting it away is keeping me from brewing more often. I know, I know, I know...first world problems. Has anyone worked out a “cart” system allowing then to store a burner, large kettles/brew...

I am about to setup a kegged, non-beer, beverage. I found a fruit wine that is delicious when carbonated. For dispensing, when I use several feet of hose to lower dispensing pressure, if I don’t dispense for a few weeks, does the carbonation of the fluid in the line remain the same as in the...

Hi. Which online retailers have the best deals, inclusive of shipping, for DME and LME?

My blood orange beer using wheat DME has finished fermenting in the primary. I've come from a 1.078 SG and are currently at 1.016. This has taken 18 days. My tilt says the gravity has not changed in two days. If I rack it to a secondary, and are patient a couple more weeks, could I expect the...

Re-posting in the correct forum - Has anyone owned both Cannonball and Torpedo kegs? I’d like to pickup a couple smaller kegs and cannot find any side by side comparisons.

Do we have a thread that gives a list of commercially made beers we can taste to learn the effects of our home brewing decisions? For example: a dry beer Hop selections Body decisions Etc. Im not interested in duplicating styles, but really dialing in my own tastes preferences to the...

Hi. Has anyone owned both Cannonball and Torpedo kegs? I’d like to pick up a couple smaller kegs and cant see to find any side by side or cut all use comparisons.

I have a stopper with a thermowell, and in Inkbird probe (the small probe). Should I just stick the probe into the bottom of the thermowell, or should I fill the thermowell with water or star san solution? Thank you for your feedback.

I picked up a used 15 gallon keggle with threaded valve, thermometer and sight glass... Can the sight glass be useful during the boil? Mine is bubbling before the keg comes to a boil, and when I actually put extract in the keg, I'm concerned about it boiling over and making a mess. It expelled...

Is there a difference between brewing coriander and coriander bought in the bulk aisle from the grocery store? Also, when prepping oranges for addition to a carboy, after zesting the orange, would it be better to run the oranges through my juicer before steeping? Or do I need to use the skin...

Good morning. I have a stainless work chiller coil. I'd like to put QDs on it in order to remove the tubing when not in use. Can someone share with me how to add QDs to stainless tubing? The the QDs they recommend?

I am doing my first yeast starter this weekend. I need to increase my start count to compensate for a 1.08 OG. Would it be detrimental to the yeast if I maintained my temperature and aeration with an immersion circulator?

My Kegorator is nicely setup, so I'd prefer not to take it out of commission for fermentation temp control. My house is averaging swing temps of 65-74 degrees in the closets and bathrooms. It is a poorly insulated house, and its not getting fixed still for a couple of months. I have no way to...

I’ve done my first keg. If I store my beer at 34 degrees, and are using a soda keg with with a standard size kegorator, do I really need 10-20 feet of beer line if I prefer higher carbonated beer? I’m using 1/4” beer line to match the barbs in the QDs. I’m getting a fairly foamy beer when pushed...

I'd like to set up wine dispensing by the bottle. Coravin is nice, but is awkward to use (and slow and expensive). WineKeeper and others are nice, but more than I'd like to spend. And, since I've got tubing, manifolds, rubber stoppers, stainless tubing, etc, I'd like to put together my own...

I am upgrading my starter equipment. I want to control two separate keg pressures now, and will want to upgrade to a third keg around Christmas next year...the third will be for small batch experimentation, sodas or just plain soda water when not used for something else... I am stuck between...