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Finally got around to setting up an old kegerator I was given a few years ago. As silly as it may seem, I'm currently choosing to not put beer in it right now. But I bought a small keg and made a big keg of plain carbonated water. Been playing with different flavorings and simple syrup, added...

I've been thinking of setting up my kegerator and such, and because I am a cheap skate, I have been considering the best possible deal I can find on corny kegs. Also because I am a cheap skate, I like to get all the Diet Pepsi I drink as cheaply as possible. I started thinking that buying it...

I have the opportunity to pick up a cool 50's fridge (with the rounded top and everything) that looks very nice and I'm told cools quite well for free. (Can't remember the brand.) I'm thinking of selling off the kegerator I bought on Craigslist that is "old" but not really "vintage" and...

It has been a while since I've been able to brew! But I have a lager that has been sitting in the fermenter lagering for some time and it is time to bottle it up. Well, I was at my parent's house yesterday and noticed a bottle of blueberry juice sitting in the fridge and was reminded of a...

I've been wanting to set up a decent-sized kegorator and have been slowly gathering the "ingredients" so I can save money in the process. I was given an old, ugly but still working freezer which will be modified a few months ago. It has been waiting in the corner of the garage. The other...

10 days ago, we bottled a crap-ton of beer, about 10 gallons of an oktoberfest and 8 gallons of a pumpkin ale. The Oktoberfest carbed well and is now sitting in cold storage (I know it is a bit late, but most of it will be given away all at once). The pumpkin ale shows little-to-no...

How long will yeast sediment be viable in the bottle? I've got some beer that I brewed and bottled about 11 months ago. I'd like to brew it again soon, but have been having a hard time finding yeast at home. So I remembered that there are a couple of bottles still around from then. Would...

So I've got a freezer setup for fermentation and a ranco temp controller to control it. I am aware that the act of fermentation causes the beer to be a few degrees warmer than ambient. I know many people just stick the temp probe into the fermenting beer to get an accurate reading, and I...

I've been super busy the past few weeks, and never had time to bottle some wheat beer that was brewed something like April 29th. I figured it'd be okay in my garage, and kept thinking, "one more day won't hurt." Well, I went to finally bottle it tonight, and was only half surprised to see...

I was just offered most of a homebrew setup. It would include: *3 Kegs converted for brewing: 1 Keg Kettle with a simple valve on the bottom 1 Keg converted to a Mash Tun with false bottom, valve,and thermometer installed 1 Keg converted to a Hot Liquor...

Disclaimer: I am not doing anything crazy when filling the bottling bucket like splashing it around with a spoon; I am and will continue to be careful about splashing and won't introduce oxygen purposly. However, I wonder if this means that it isn't a big deal if a little bit of oxygen is...

So I soaked a bunch of bottles in oxyclean, which worked great to get the labels off. But I'm worried a little about having some residue left inside the bottles. There were a couple bottles that I thought were rinsed off, but some residue appeared on the outside when they dried. Now I was...

So the other day we were bottling the latest IPA and I got to thinking... The last beer we bottled, I had stuck the fermenters in a fridge for two or three days to cold crash it. I think that is why it took longer than usual (compared to other beers) for the beer to carbonate. In the...

How do you figure out expected final gravity? I brewed a couple beers about a week and a half ago. I was just wondering if there was any way to guess what the final expected gravity was. First batch was an IPA, mashed at 152 deg for 60 min, OG was 1.060, yeast used was Wyeast 1272...

Hey Guys, I'm brewing two beers this weekend. One is a "Lawnmower Lager" that is intended to be a lighter, easy drinking, dryer beer. The other is an IPA. What mash temps would you recommend for each? Thanks!

This weekend, I'm planning to brew two different beers, a lighter Lager and an IPA. Should cover a lot of summer drinking! Both will be 11-12 gallon batches. Here is the equipment I have available: 2 boil kettles from kegs 1 Mash Tun from a keg 1 Mash Tun from a 10 gallon cooler 1 HLT...

I saw "Vanilla Pepper IPA" in a signature once and after PMing the guy decided that a Vanilla IPA sounded interesting. Because I don't want to possibly ruin a ton of beer, I plan on splitting the batch and putting half of it in a couple beans or some extract after fermentation. For 12...

I'm thinking I'd like to brew a "Lawnmower" lager for summer drinking. I was given malt for it, about 16 lbs of pilsner malt and 1/4 or so lb of c-20 (they're already mixed, so there isn't much I can change with that other than maybe adding something). We'd like it to have some actual...

I've seen "smash" used more than once, just wondering what it means? Is it an acronym? (Sometimes it is all caps, sometimes some of the letters are, sometimes none.) Is it just a 'nickname' for the mash, or does it denote some different process or strategy?

Thinking about brewing a quick Irish style beer, I figure that if I pushed things just a little, it could be consumed on St. Patrick's Day. Just for fun, we were thinking of dumping a bunch of green food color in the bottling bucket, and I thought it would be cool to throw some shamrocks in...