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Good day! I have a problem. 18-months ago I used to brew 20-30 gallons of all grain ales and mead every week. My lady and I had a huge apartment that had tons of storage. Fortunately we bought our first house, unfortunately I have absolutely no room to store my brew in. My last storage was a...

A friend gave me a gas regulator and an attached tap. Posted are pictures of the amazing devices. They appear quite old. Mainly I notice they don't use the same schema I'm used to, though, I'm really not used to much. The regulator is attached to the tap via a hose. Shouldn't they be two...

I'm soaking some rose pedals in vodka and water right now. Has anyone ever added flavored vodka to mead? I'm wondering if it'll hurt anything. I'm making a 5-gallong batch of rose mead. Thanks! Trails & Ales again! -Johnny

Has anyone ever used agave nectar for wine/mead making? I've used it for the last few years and think it is amazing! Floral agave wines make me a very happy man. I'm looking for documentation regarding the fermentation and sugar make-up of agave. Anyone seen any?! Thank you! Trails & Ales...

Does anyone know where I could obtain a printable file, PDF or what not, of yeast characterisics. Something I could keep in my brewers log, to review, stare and drool over now and again. I was on Wyeasts website but all their strains have individual sites that I couldn't print very easily...

Happy Spring everyone! How many minerals can yeast tolerate? I'm going to brew an ale this Summer while working on Mt. Rainier using the mountain's glacial runoff. I don't know the chemistry of the water but it's cloudy with minerals. At some points the water looks identical to skim milk...

Is there a reference out there that contains fruit and vegetable sugar percentages? I'm interested in making more non-traditional wines but don't know how much sugar is in whatever I'm harvesting at the moment. Thanks for any information! Johnny Long

I'm planning to build a pedal powered fruit grinder and have a question with the drum. What are the preferred types of drums? I've seen screws drilled into a round piece of wood that effectively scrap the fruit to pulp. Are there other techniques? This is not a project I plan to spend...

I'm getting into force carb kegging. After I charge up a corney keg and let it sit for a few weeks can I bottle the beer? Or should I just bottle w/ priming sugar as I rack to the corney?

Where is a good place to score used milk crates? What about a cheap place to buy them? :tank: Johnny

Target OG in AG recipes.... are they before the boil or after? I just a 1.044 after mashing when my target was 1.054. When I boil down a gallon and a half or so I'll be closer but is that correct? Thanks!

So I put my new MLT to use! It worked very well but my efficiency sucked. I measured a gravity of 1.014 at 124 degrees... so 1.025ish. Supposed to be 1.060. 5# german munich 4# wheat 1# crystal 40 some rice hulls Mashed in ~3.1 gallons water at 155 for 5 minutes then splashed some cold...

So I've built a CPVC contraption that will act as my fly sparge. I want to drill a hole in the top of my cooler and connect the 3/4" CPVC to a hose from my HLT. That way I don't have to open the lid to sparge. Very exciting stuff. My issue is sealing the cooler around the CPVC. What can I...

So I have the normal, clear, easily bendable tubing from my LHBS. Can I use that to transfer my striking water to my MLT? Or do I need a special type of tubing? Thanks!

My current MLT is a small cooler using a copper drain manifold. I'm looking to upgrade but I'm not sure whether to build one with a braided stainless steel supply hose or use copper again. What are some pro's and con's of each? Thanks for the help!

So I have a kegerator and I want to start kegging. After I buy a corney keg how much am I looking to invest in CO2? Also, can I buy Nitro to carbonate my beers instead of CO2? Is there a good place to buy used CO2 canisters? A place in town was selling full CO2 canisters for $200. These...

Are propane tanks dangerous when exposed to full sunlight? It's about 80 degrees and sunny here, good day to brew. Am I in any danger brewing without shade cover? Thanks for saving my life or not!

I just bought an auto-siphon device and unfortunately it doesn't fit in my 1-gallon growlers. My LHBS doesn't supply others. Are there any online I could buy that are less girthy? Thanks!

I want to make a yeast starter of Red Star Montrachet dry yeast. I plan to pitch the starter into three separate gallons of cider. How many cups of juice should I add to the starter vessel? I'm planning on three cups cider, corn sugar and some yeast nutrients pitched with 1 packet...

Anyone ever made a cider with a combination of dark cherry juice and apple juice? Or just made a straight dark cherry hard cider? My co-op had some quarts of Dark Cherry juice on sale so I picked up a few.