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I need to order a few hundred pounds of grain and proportional amounts of yeast and hops to export to Roatan Island. I'm looking for a supplier near Miami as that's where the ship is. I'll use a refrigerated container. I'm also looking for suggestions on recipes to use those consumables to...

I'm trying to figure out where the reasonable dividing line is in terms of kettle sizes to be able to do experimental brews of 5G of beer (>5G of mash) and also to get the largest kettles to maximize the upper potential. Moving liquid through the grain bed efficiently is the goal. It seem...

I know there is no one answer to my question, but there must be some reasonable range of ratios. What are they? What follows is for an all electric HERMS system. The reason I ask the question is because I've broken the HLT's job down to three functions - Produce the initial strike water...

I'm looking for opinions on kegs. I intend to ferment in them as well as use them for serving. I've found the following 5G NEW kegs for sale: Torpedo Amcyl NSF (866) 249 8196 Made in India AIH NSF AEB Made in Italy I want to purchase several kegs over time and...

When I worked for the 4 breweries in NY during my college days, I would go home on the subway and people would avoid me because I reeked of "brewery smell". I worked on the bottling lines primarily and only got near the actual brewing area during lunch to get an unpasteurized brew. The smell...

FYI - I have no brewing experience or equipment - yet. I believe I know what equipment I want for the hot side and now need to figure out the cool side. Ambient air and tap water temperature where I live is a minimum average of 85 year round. I intend to keg everything. I intend to ferment...

From what I understand, wort needs to trickle out of the MLT at a slow rate to allow the liquid to run out without also causing the mass of solids to compress more than absolutely necessary as the liquid that provides buoyancy for the solids is reduced. The more liquid that's drained out the...

In a 3 kettle setup (HLT, MLT, BK), is the BK ever used at anything other than a boil? If so, is there a name or term for what is trying to be achieved so I can look it up?

I've watched several videos that feature the type of equipment I'm leaning towards; namely three SS kettles with pumps moving the liquids around in an all electric setup. The Spike and Blichmann kettles are in contention. The video from Spike Systems (...

I just checked the Blichmann site and they have recommendations for sizing their pots for a given quantity of beer production. For example, 7.5, 7.5, 10 (HLT / Mash / Boil) for 5 gallons of beer. They suggested 10, 10, 10 for high gravity beers. Then I saw a Spike Brewing video with 3...

I've been watching some videos and reading about carbonation. Over and under carbonation has come up several times when referring to the keg version and I came up with a thought. A keg is a big "bottle" that holds, say, 5 gallons of beer. If one were to treat the keg as an actual bottle and...

I'm researching equipment of all kinds and came across a limitation for the Braumeister as follows: Because of size constraints of the mash tub the largest starting gravity beer you can brew is between 1.060 to 1.065. What is this trying to tell ignorant me? I suspect it has something to do...

I believe in the Reinheitsgebot approach to all food and drink. I try to eat and drink only what someone from the 17th century would recognize. No soda, no Doritos, no ice cream, etc; nothing but natural foods known to humanity before the chemists managed to get poisons approved as food...