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I'll start by saying that I am in no way affiliated with Patoka Lake Brewing in Birdseye, IN. Been there one time. The wife and I were in the area today. We like to hit French Lick and Patoka Lake every year on our little anniversary getaway and do some local wine and spirits tasting at the...

Finally got my nukatap faucets installed. Still need to mount the drip tray and get some handles. The fridge can fit two five gallon cornies with two shelves above them. I've got a couple of those oxbar monos. I think I can lay one on its side on one of the shelves. I'll post some more pictures...

I guess beer judging probably isn't in my future. On certain rare occasions I've discovered that some craft beers didn't taste as hoppy as I expected, but did have what I thought was a very pleasant caramel undertone. It happened often enough that I became frustrated with my inability to find...

I got an awesome stainless side by side fridge for $50 off of Craigslist. Freezer worked, fridge didn't. Long story short, a buddy of mine 3d printed a new sliding vent regulator and it was as good as new. I've just begun the journey into kegging. Wanting to use the fridge for kegs, I began...

Morebeer still has the new Duotight ball lock/ direct push in fittings on back order with no ETA. There appears to be an identical product available on eBay, but without the Kegland name. They don't list any brand name for that matter. They are listed as 5/16" tubing size, which should be the...

First time using a 3 gallon Fermonster. I've got 3 gallons of cider in it and the plastic spigot is leaking, not around where it seats against the vessel, but out the bottom of the spigot like the valve is bypassing. It is not major; just a tiny seep resulting in a little sticky puddle. Is...

My Christmas beer is fermenting right now. (At least a month later than I wanted to get it going. ) It's a Scotch Ale type thing that I'm going to add oak chips and some bourbon to. I haven't got a good second fermenter yet, so I was thinking about adding the bourbon soaked oak cubes to...

My wife has been wanting to make a cider with me. We won't be able to get fresh orchard stuff for a couple of weeks, so I had her get the jugs of cheap pasteurized only apple juice and some Nottingham yeast. I'm going to boil a couple spoonfuls of my last beer's yeast cake to add for nutrients...

While I wait for ingredients to arrive for my next "legit" brew, I'm planning on doing a little experiment. I've got a little pale malt left, so I had my wife pick up some generic frosted flakes from the grocery store to incorporate into a quick small batch. As it stands, the 2.5 gallon recipe...

I debuted a new beer to some friends tonight that was actually really well received (always a good feeling). It was called Sassy Bandit IPA, in honor of a movie line my dad always quotes when we're shooting guns. None of my friends caught the movie reference. So I thought it would be fun to see...

I brewed an all Chinook pale ale back in September of last year. First four bottles or so were great; good nose, plenty of hop presence, etc. It wasn't an IPA, but had good hop character. The rest of the batch was good, but just kinda "meh", so I chalked it up to oxygen degrading the hop...

I recently had a Kostritzer pale ale and really liked it. I'm also a fan of FFF Alpha King, which has me thinking that i might be one of those guys who enjoy tasting some crystal malt in a hoppy, deep amber colored beer. Id like to do some brainstorming and come up with a recipe that would fit...

Many thanks to malfet (especially) and all the other brewers who have posted their builds. I finally got around to making mine, using inspiration from several. The manifold is comprised of 3/4" cpvc with tees that are 2x3/4" straight through x1/2" teeing off. Those tees were perfect for this...

Title pretty much says it all. I was wondering if there is a flat lid available for the sovereign, perhaps one from another manufacturer that happens to fit? I love my sovereign fermenter, but I've been thinking about some modifications that would be a lot easier if i had a flat lid to work...

Has anyone here installed a cooling coil inside a sovereign fermenter? I would prefer to run lines through the lid without using the stopper hole because I'm planning on installing a tc port there. I'd also like the coil to get down in there low. Short of putting the fermenter in a fridge, I'm...

4 gallon batch. Looking at doing 7lbs. Marris Otter (84.8%) 8 oz. Roasted barley (6.1%) 6 oz. Fawcett pale chocolate (4.5%) 6 oz. Flaked Barley (4.5%) Hopped to around 30 IBU with something English or Northern Brewer. Trying to keep it simple. I loved the pale chocolate in brown ale I did a...

I try to stick to dry yeast. LHBS only had some s-33, which was fine because I was wanting to try it anyway. I don't have a cooling ferm chamber yet and my basement is right at 68 degrees right now with these summer temps and holding steady. I'm sure the yeast will take the temp up to the low...

I'm sick of messing with bungs on one gallon carboys. All my small carboys have threads on the top for the screw on caps that come with them, so I was thinking about buying extra caps, drilling a hole in the center, and fitting them with the proper sized grommet for an airlock. I would prefer...

I'm in southern Indiana. I know I can get a Bayou Classic or something similar, new, in the $120-$140 range. I just wanted to put a feeler out here first to see if someone had something around that price range or cheaper they are wanting to get rid of. My plan is to build it into an electric...

My wife preordered our hop rhizomes from Northern Brewer about six weeks ago. They still haven't arrived, and we haven't recieved any notification or correspondence concerning our order. Has anyone here ordered from them and recieved rhizomes yet? I know everything is backed up right now.