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I purchased and milled some gains about a month ago and they have been sitting in the paper bag that I bought them in. Question: Have they gone stale, should I throw them out and start fresh or are they still ok?

I am moving to a new place and of course now I need to move my kegs and cooler. It is a deep freezer with 4 korney kegs in it and temp controller. My question is, how do I go about moving the kegs? Will the temperature change ( its hot out ) or all of the sloshing ruin the beer? Has anyone...

I have a small deep freezer that I have converted to a keg cooler. It has a ranco controller that keeps the temp at about 40degrees. I have been battling keeping my fermenting beer at a near constant temperature and I am wondering if there is any down side to raising the temp on the kegger up to...

So, I put 5 gallons of stout into the corney keg and let it sit a few weeks. I checked today and all 5 gallons had emptied into the bottom of the chest freezer. I have been kegging for almost a year with no problems unitl now. I am not sure why this happened. I had a picnic tap on the keg and I...

I have a question regarding 5 gallon CO2 bottle pressure. How much should the regulator meter go down when the bottle goes from an ambient temperature of 85f down to say 70f ?

Ok, heres my simple contribution to the state of the art of brewing. My MLT is a converted rectangular cooler that was gathering dust in the garage. The cooler works well holding temperature as long as I cover it with a blanket. I realized that the lid had no insulation! On a cool day, I can...

I am was just about the syphon the fermented beer into a keg and I noticed a bit if what looks like mold inside the clear tubing on my autosyphon. This is the clear flexible tubing that connects to the syphon. I tried cleaning it out and swamping it with sanitizer but there is still some there...

Is emptying a keg a good or bad thing? On one hand it means that you need to brew more which is good but it also means that you are out of your favorite beer on a Friday night. Is emptying a keg a good or bad thing?

I am going to fill some swing top bottles and give them away for Christmas. I am going to refrigerate the bottles and clean and sanitize them then fill them with beery goodness. My questionis this: I know that CO2 comes out of suspension when the beer gets warm, will the bottles have a...

I have a quick question. how important is it to sanitize the new beer lines and connectors? I forgot to sanitize the last 2 lines that I put in service on new corneys and I'm wondering what will happen. Noob? Yeah.

I am new to kegging and have a question. I have a 5 gallon corney and it has the pin lock connectors. There are 2 push on connectors, one is grey and one is black. I notice that the grey connector will fit on either post but the black will only fit on one post comfortably. Is there suposed to...

I am a big fan of Better Bottles but I have stumbled upon one minor flaw. The have an oilcan effect. I went to raise the bottle out of my swamp cooler and the liquid in the airlock thingamajig got sucked back into the wort. DOH, and of course I dont think I used sanitized water in the airlock...

First time kegger here. I have a 3 gallon keg, 5 pound bottle, 35 degree keggerator and a party tap. I bought this kegging kit from the local HBS and they assured me that the tubing length and diam is correct. I carbed up at 30psi for 48 hours then dropped the pressure down to 8psi. My beer...

Hi Guys. I have a new keg system in a chest freezer with a Ranco controller. I have a 3 gallon keg with new O Rings and a 5 pound tank. I checked the system for air leaks using a bucket full of water so I know the keg is pretty tight. I tightened up the connection to the bottle however after 24...

I am not sure which category this belings in but I am beginning to Keg on this batch and I have a question about fermenting. Do you need to hit your FG before the beer hits the keg? Supposing the FG is still a bit high and you are ready to keg, what is the conventional wisdom on that...

I normally boil my bottle caps for a few minutes before bottling however I was wondering why I can't just soak them in Star San. Would this not accomplish the same thing?

What will you be brewing? I'm going all in on a Red Ale that should have a very hoppy aroma. :ban:

I have a batch of a blonde ale that has a faint scent of Band Aid. It doesn't have an over powering band aid taste but the scent is there. What causes that?

Someone needs to make a cologne that smells like Hops. Either that or a Glade Plug In that smells like Hops so that your whole room can smell like Charlie Papazian Farted.

I am done with my 4th all grain and things are looking good however, I am not sure about the mash part. I can hit and maintain my temps well enough however my efficeincy is only 66% I need to do a better job of mixing the mash and running off the sparge a little slower to increase that. My...