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Started my first AG tonight. Made my equipment, and have other posts on it, suffice it to say I have a rect. cooler MLT w/ a braided stainless manifold. Strike temp for water was 168*F-had trouble hitting the correct mash temp, but I think that my thermometers are wrong, and I overestimated...

Morning all- So, I am in the process of building out equipment for AG. I have a 48 QT box cooler that I am converting, and was originally planning on building out a copper manifold. Copper is very expensive now! I do have a 10' length of 1" copper from another DIY project, but will need to buy...

Well, I got my keggle finished. I am still looking for a good welder who does TIG, so I put together a weldless fitting. The keggle was cut out using a grinder and a cutting wheel, and tapped out with a regular drill. The fitting is made of a brass full flow ball valve, a hex nipple, 2 stainless...

OK, so I started listening to some brewing podcasts, and I am listening to the Jamil Show on American Pale Ales, and goes off on a tangent on how he does not use secondary for anything but his meads. He goes primary and then to the keg. For you out there who keg, are you using secondaries? He...

Bottle contest

Recently racked this to secondary-not much to the recipe. So far so good. Nice aroma, nice taste. Curious to see what everyone thinks, as I have not used this combination of hops before- it was rather an impulse recipe/brew: 6# extra light DME 2# american 2 row .75# light crystal 60 minutes@...

for the first Friday in a long time, nothing to do, nowhere I have to go, no travel for work.....just got home and cracked some Angry Simon. Wife is bringing home some steaks, and that is the scope of my activities for the next 12 hours.

FWIW I had this bookmarked from earlier this year. Not sure who posted it originally, but it is a link for a reasonably priced kegging system. Was reading some other posts about kegging equipment, and figured I would bump it. Alternative Beverage

Wondering if anyone has ever used them to fashion a manifold for a brew kettle?

So, the wife and I rented a lake house for vacation next week. The guy that we are renting from calls and says that since his plans changed, we can have the house today instead of Saturday afternoon, and the extra ~ 3 days are free.SWEET.........waiting for other shoe to drop.......WHAM! I tell...

Well, I was driving the kitchen tonight as most nights, making dinner as well as a some extra for lunchs the rest of the week, while drinking a beer that I also made, and thought how there is nothing better than Homebrew. Just like everything else I try to do at home, it is made by my own hands...

Well, I just cracked a Banshee's Brother that I bottled up back in February as a St Patrick's Day batch for a party that I was going to. Naturlich, I saved a bunch for my private stock. I have not touched them since 3/17, and just cracked one open today. The clarity is amazing, the head is nice...

Well, after a too too long sabbatical from brewing and posting, I am back. I have been locked up with work (big project, re-organization, and potential promotion), school (still working on Master's), and have not been able to do much of the fun stuff. Throw in 7 weeks of therapy for a blown out...

Got my first bottle bomb today as well as getting my first tru stuck fermentation a week ago. Stoutbomb in the basement

to the Raleigh contingent-my plans have changed. I am flying down Monday night, working Tuesday and Wednesday, and flying out Wednesday afternoon evening. Not sure if anyone is still available at all. I am staying in Cary, but don't get in until 9:18pm Monday Night.

Ok, so I have done a couple mini mashes, in that I have used grains that are capable of producing sugars for fermentation, at this point, only 2 row pale. So, I am just kind of half @ssing it to see what happens. this time, I used 1.5# 2 Row, 3/4# light Crystal, and 1/4# med crystal. I am making...

Hello all, question for those of you that also make non-alcoholic brews like ginger ale and rootbeer. if you carb naturally in the bottle, how do you prevent the yeast from consuming all the sugars, creating too much alcohol and also making bottle bombs? I want to make some rootbeer and...

It was a preseason tuneup and the Sox and Yankees get bench warnings for playing beanball! can't wait for spring. The real spring with warm weather and meaningful games....

I mixed up some boiled DME and water on sunday, cooled it and fed it to some yeast in my 1G jug, plugged and airlocked it. I planned on using it that night (it was dry yeast) and figured that I would give it a head start. This is my normal procedure. However, I never got to brewing that day. My...

I am doing the "Irish New Year" stuff on Sunday, and I need to be in work tomorrow for a bit, so I banged in today with the boss' permission....Burner is getting fired up around 1pm for a run of ale!