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Brewed with a sore foot weekend before last. Next day I went to the doctor. His diagnosis - gout. He listed a few things that should be removed from my diet. Shellfish - no problem, I'm 300 miles from a decent source, Red meat - a little harder, can I cook it till it's black? Beer - OMG...

I have been using 6-Row as a base grain for my light beers, but now it is time to get more grain. I was wondering what the MAJOR difference is between 6-row and 2-row. Thanks

Ok I've been using a refractometer for my unfermented wort for about 4 brews now. I can't seem to get a correct reading. I checked calibration prior and after and it reads zero with tap water. Today I brewed a kit and took a sample after the wort had set in the carboy for over three hours...

I just received my first batch of unmilled grain and my grain mill. Unfortunately, summer temperatures have climbed past the 100 degree mark. I stored my grain in a sealed drum outside on the patio. Is the summer heat going to ruin my grain? Do I need to move it inside?

Ok so I've got a few brews under my belt and my product is getting better. But I hate taking large samples of my beer or wort to float a hydrometer and I needed a little better control of my process so I got a compensated refractometer. My question is, when taking multiple samples how do you...

I have done one AG batch. It seems the consensus that you should mash out by raising the grain temp before sparging to stop enzyme activity. I am wondering why this is a necessary step when draining to the BK and sparging will be completed shortly thereafter. I also don't quite understand why...

I have been calculating and recalculating and planning this for over a month. Ok, so here is how it went. I heated 14 gallons of tap water up to 164 degrees and then pumped 5 gallons of it over to the 10 gallon ice chest mash tun (because I only have one brew kettle that big). I expected...

I don't really know where this should be posted so I decided to do it here. I purchased a CDN DTQ450X thermometer from Northern Brewer. While I was testing and calibrating and generally messing around with it, it quit working, on the day I got it. When turned on it wouldn't stay on. As soon...

Background: Ok, I guess I'm not a novice since I have brewed 115 gallons in 2009. I am a kit brewer and the last 7 or 8 brews have been mini mash kits from AHS. I have always used Iodophor for sanitation and rinsed with tap water. My favorite so far is the AHS Premium lager kit and I have...

Hello all. I joined the forum in January 2009, but just lurked and learned for the first year. Boy have I learned a lot. I started with LME brewing for about 6 months, then switched to mini mash LME. Lately I have been brewing MM w DME. I now have about 35 gallons done and 20 of that is...