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Sold! I have a chrome dual faucet 3" tower that has never been used. I bought it from eBay a while back to convert a Sanyo, but I ended up building a keezer instead. Paid $85 + shipping. Has the chrome faucets, tubing, gasket, and Sankey connectors that came with it. No tap handles...

I've poked around a bit, but I haven't been able to find anything on this question. I'm trying to put in an inventory for the first time. Is there a way to differentiate between leaf and pellet hops of the same variety? I see the dropdown, but it doesn't want to separate the two in the...

Okay, in my infinite noobiness, I decided to make Jamil's Old Monster barley wine recipe. This is my fourth AG batch, and my first beer this big. Here's my problem: Of course, the 25lbs of grain and almost 8 gallons of strike water filled my 10 gal MLT to the top. I heated my strike water to...

I realize I'm not the first one to freeze beer (I did a search), but I thought I would share my experience. I have a CL's find 20+ cu ft chest freezer that I run with a Ranco temp controller. It's tall enough to drop kegs and a 20lb co2 tank into without having to build a collar (although I...

Anybody have the Summit SBC-500B? If so, how many corny kegs will it fit? Sorry, my searching turned up nothing. Thanks for your help. EDIT: Found this one out myself through field research. Guy was offering one pretty cheap on CL. I could only get two Corny kegs with the double handles in...

I feel like Tom Hanks in Castaway after he got his fire going. I - HAVE - MADE - BE-ER! Sorry, a little n00b uforia and slight intoxication going on here. I've had three of the Centennial Blonds that seemed to be carbed up nice, and I checked the SG of the Hefe I made tonight for the first...

I found a guy on CL who was selling out all his brewing equipment (will brag about the deal I got later) and before I left he pulled out what I would consider to be a sh*tload of hop pellets of assorted variety from his freezer and gave them to me. There are literally a few pounds of pellets in...

My first batch is BierMuncher's Centennial Blond, and I was planning to transfer it to a keg today and put it in the fridge to cold crash for a week. It's been in the fermenter for 14 days, and I have gotten consistent FG readings. I've read where you can just leave it in the primary to cold...

I was planning to brew a hefeweizen partial mash kit tomorrow, and I have a vial of White Labs yeast that I got through mail-order. I want to make a starter for it mostly to check the viability because I had trouble with a dead tube of WL that I received in the same order. Never made a...

What's a good price to pay for a used Sanke to make a keggle? I suppose it will depend on the market, but I'm seeing big kegs on CL in Gainesville, FL for $60 - $70. Seems high to me.

Can you describe how White Labs California Ale WLP001 is supposed to smell when the vial is opened? Would you say sour, or more of a clean aroma, or maybe something completely different? I'm totally chillaxed, not worried, and if I had a homebrew, I would be sucking it down. ;)

Tomorrow will be my first brew day in about nine years. From reading here a couple weeks I'm thinking one problem I experienced before was letting my primaries get too hot in my apartment closet (lots of ester and fusel as a result). I have a 4912 and thought I could use it in my garage...

I just picked up three 20lb tanks from someone on Craigslist who was selling a bunch of concessions equipment. I paid $40 for three tanks and a regulator (which I probably won't use). None of them have a current certification. The blue one has a 1999 stamp, the aluminum one has a 2000 stamp, and...

I'm a noob and haven't brewed my first batch yet (well, since starting again after almost a decade). I'm having fun collecting equipment, though. I've read some threads on here that have discussed various temp controllers, but I thought I would ask about my specific situation. I have found two...

I've been watching my CL for 4912s and saw this post yesterday: http://gainesville.craigslist.org/ele/795095549.html Have any of you run across a 4912 that has a freezer, or is this guy confused? I wrote him about it -- he promises it's the model he's linked to at Costco, but the Costco...

I'm about to begin brewing my first batch at some point in the next couple weeks and have a question about my 6 gal Better-Bottle. My LHBS suggested I get the 6 gal to use as a primary fermenter to avoid using a blow-off tube. I'm planning to go from the primary to a keg. I want to be patient...

Hi, Beer Folks. I post on a barbecue forum with Jonnio, and he hipped me to this place. I'm glad he did. I've learned more here already just having read a few days than I did during my first attempt at home brewing. I tried brewing about eight years ago while I was in grad school and had...