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Hey all, Im pretty new to kegging and I just put a batch of beer into a keg and began force carbing it. It is at 38 degrees and im am trying to keep 10 psi on it. I say trying because it seems like every time i check the regulator it has dropped down to 8 or even as low as 5. Should i just...

Hey guys, Been playing with my new phone and found this app that looks cool called Brewers Assistant. Its like a recipe manager that uses beersmith format files. Only thing is I cant figure out how to import recipes into the program. Anybody ever worked with this program that can tell me what...

A while back I went in with my brew club and bought some bulk base malts. I got a full bag of 2 row and a full bag of pilsen malt. I stored them in their own storage tubs and at the time I thought I marked them somehow to tell them apart but I was looking at them last night and it looks like I...

Hey guys, Some of you may know im making a trip up to Michigan for vacation next weekend (oct. 8-11). Im going to be in the Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Saugatuck areas and thought I would put out an offer to bring some beers that arent available to you guys with me. I can get Goose Island and Two...

I started my first batch of cider the other day, 5 gallons of cider from a local orchard. I pitched wyeast 4766 into the batch on sunday evening and by monday morning it was bubbling away. I had orginally planned to let it ferment at whatever the basement temp was but as I watched the temp in...

Im thinking about making a wine that in the end will be a total of 3 gallons. Should I purchase a 3 gallon carboy just for this wine or will it be ok to use the 6 gallon carboys that I already have? I wasn't sure if the extra headspace will potentially cause oxidation. This is my first shot at...

Hey guys, I know its only July but me and the wife are planning on taking a trip up into Michigan this fall to take it the colors and plenty of the local beers. I live in northern central Illinois and plan on taking a 4-5 day trip. So far I know I want to stop at Founders in Grand Rapids but...

Hey guys, Brewed up a hefe last saturday, most everything went as planned. Anyway I pitched a yeast starter and aerated with o2 through a diffusion stone. By the next morning I had a ton of krausen. Now 5 days later it still has what appears to be krausen on the top. Will that eventually settle...

Hey guys, I am looking to brew a bavarian hefe soon and started bring my yeast starter up from a slant of wlp 300. This is my first time using this yeast and first time cultureing up a hefe yeast. The starter was cultured from 10ml to 100ml to 1000ml. So this morning I took a sample from the...

Hey guys, Im working on my electric boil kettle and ran into a little issue im worried about. I have a ultra low density element that is the type that kinda snakes back and forth and I was planning on using a welded coupling to mount it to the kettle. So to be able to spin it into the coupling I...

When yeast is growing on an agar slant, will it only grow on the spots that were touched with the loop or will it spread out to cover the entire surface? I ask because I have had some slants that the yeast grew to cover the surface and others that just had spots that filled in. Maybe depends on...

I read in a few places about when it comes time to make a starter from a yeast slant that you can put sterile wort into your slant tube, swirl it around and pour it into your starter. Does anybody here do that? If so will that slant regrow itself or is it spent after that? Thanks for the advice.

So here is what ive got going on, I have a sweet stout that I brewed a couple weeks ago and is done fermenting and still in primary. I have a corny keg ready to put the beer in but I dont have my kegerator setup finished yet so I have no way to keep the beer cold once in the keg. If I transfer...

Hey guys, The brewclub I belong too is trying to develop a yeast bank for our members to use and hopefully be another way to cut some of the cost of brewing. Just curious if anybody had any yeast cultures they would be interested in donateing or selling? We would be willing to pay for shipping...

I figure this question has been asked before but I did a search and couldn't find anything so I'll ask it again. Can you put a lambic blend on a slant like you do for normal yeast for saving to a yeast bank? Im assumeing that the blend will grow on malt agar but Im wondering if when I take a...

Hey guys, I recently bought a medical oxygen tank at an auction for use in a wort aeration system. Then comes to find out that I have to have a prescription to get it filled or exchanged. So im thinking that it might not be worth the effort to find someone to give me the rx for it. So dont know...

I recently bought a stainless thermowell from stirplates.com and had the intention of drilling out a couple of holes in a #6.5 stopper. One hole for the thermowell and the other for an airlock. After messing with it for a while I've pretty much decided im not going to get my nice clean hole in...

Hey gang, Ive seen some blowoff setups that use a stopper with what looks like 1/2" tubeing pushed straight into the stopper hole. Anybody know what size stopper that is? Any comments on that type of setup?

It might be a little early but just wanted to let everyone know that we are starting a local homebrew club in the lasalle-peru, ottawa, morris area. We will actually be meeting in the town of Marseilles. We welcome anyone that would like to check it out to stop by. Our first meeting will be the...