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This may be a foolish question, but will cider yeast groove on DME? I made a starter for a cider I plan to make this weekend and without thinking about it I just kind went into autopilot and did my standard stater procedure with DME and didn't even think about whether or not I should have done...

I just ordered a new 3 body secondary regulator so I could move my CO2 tank outside of my kegerator and open up more space for more kegs. :) However, they arrived yesterday and none of the three 0-60psi gauges read the same and two of them don't read 0 with no pressure applied. So I'm...

It's not the first time I've had a starter ferment over (is there a better term?) but this is certainly the most vigorous. Normally I wouldn't care and just clean up the mess, but since this is a starter, and the point of the starter is to increase my pitching rate, I'm wondering if I lost too...

I was planning on brewing on Sunday but life got in the way and I've had to hold off for a week until next Saturday. Happens to everyone right? However, I already made my 2L starter with the planned brew-day on Sunday. So, with the extra week, I thought I'd try stepping up my starter. I...

I'm just wondering. I've been keeping my starters in a closet and out of the light to this point, but now I've built a stir plate and I have no outlets in that closet. I can move my starter elsewhere in the house if I need to but I hear a lot of people talking about keeping their stirrers in...

So I'm going though the home stir plate assembly that everyone seems to do. I took the magnets out of an old hard drive and got two strong magnets. I have a 120mm fan that I mounted them on (stuck together). But the stir bar always gets thrown. I think I centered the magnets well, the fan...

OK, I'm starting my Oktoberfest tomorrow and I've been thinking about using a FWH with it. I've been reading everything I can find about it but it's still not clear to me which addition I should move forward to the FWH. I've read some folks who say to move your late additions forward to the...

So I got my starter all made up last Friday so it's be active and ready to pitch after my Saturday brew session but due to unforseen burner problems, I never got to brew last weekend. So guess what I'm doing this Saturday! :) My question is: since my starter has been chillin' for the past...

I'm thinking about upgrading into a kegging system because I'm tired of filling bottles. But I'm worried about portability since we don't get many visitors to our house but we do go meet people elsewhere. So what I'm thinking is a party-pig for portability and a real keg system for the other...

Hi there. Does anyone have quick easy access to a glass 6.5 gallon carboy? I'm at work but need to know the size of one to see if a freezer I'm being offered can fit one with airlock. I'd like to get it to start brewing lagers (I already have a temp controller) but if I don't decide today...

I'm thinking of getting into kegging because I'm tired of bottling. I've been looking into the necessary hardware, and I came across an interesting idea from Williams Brewing supply here: http://www.williamsbrewing.com/BREWER_S_EDGE_PAINTBALL_TANK_R_P1791C148.cfm I already have a paintball...

Does anyone prime with 50% corn sugar and 50% DME? Is there any reason not to do this? Is there any possible benefit to doing this? The thought occured to me this afternoon thinking that your carbonation would come up faster but you'd still get to keep some of the malty goodness of using DME...

My first two AGs have been what I perceive to be low efficency brews, on the order of about 60%. The one I did today came out to be 58%. So, that being said, what sort of efficency is normal? Just so you now what I did this time around: 12 lbs of British 2 row plus about 2.5 lbs of...

...how much wood could a woodchuck chuck...Don't Do What Donnie Don't Does... Anyway, I'm gonna be brewing my second AG this weekend, a christmas beer. My grains are gound at the LHBS cause they have an elecric mill they let me use. However, last time the grind seemed awfully coarse to me...

Just a quick question: Just how clear should your runnings be while drawing off your wort from the mash? Should it just be free of grain fragments and hulls, or should it be crystal clear like a finished beer? I've never been very clear on that. Thanks!

Hi There, Over the weekend I did my first all grain brew. While that's exciting and all, I got really really low efficency (about 60%) :( . My OG was 1.044 while my target was 1.054. So while I think it'll still taste good, I have an unintentioned light beer. Since I had 7.5# of...

Hi there! As the clock ticks down to my first AG brew on Saturday, I'm wondering about the importance of grain bed depth when batch sparging. I built my mashing and lauter tun out of a 48 qt coleman cooler. In retrospect that seems pretty big. My recipe for this first go-round uses 10...

Hi there, Got some AG related questions before I make my first AG brew. I'm using a Coleman 48 qt mashing and lautering tun. Over the weekend I built a copper mashing manifold to go in it. On the manifold, I cut slits on all the pipes that run parallel to the drain. Since the drain in the...

I'm planning on making a partial mash system along the lines of RichBrewer's partial mash thread. However, I want to be able to use it in the future to make 5G AG brews in the future. With that in mind, how large a cooler do I need assuming I'm not doing too much brewing at OG's higher...

I brewed last Thursday and tonight I racked my beer to the secondary. I didn't take a SG reading before starting the rack because, well, I don't really have a good reason. I guess I figured that 5 days in the primary was long enough. However, the beer has been at the bottom range of the...