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I did a yeast starter today and everything was going good until the very end. I forgot to sanitize the stir bar before I dropped it in! I did rinse any dust off it so it should have been fairly clean. Will this mistake rune my starter and my beer? Should I start over?

My dad, brother and I will be traveling through Europe at the end of September 2014. We are going to Hungary, Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy. We plan on going to Oktoberfest but everything else is up in the air. Any place we need to go or do? If anyone from the forum will be in...

My dad, brother and I will be traveling through Europe at the end of September 2014. We are going to Hungary, Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy. We plan on going to Oktoberfest but everything else is up in the air. Any place we need to go or do? If anyone from the forum will be in...

To help learn the difference between the base malts I was thinking about making some single malt beers. 3 gallon batches of all the base malts with the same light hop addition (25 IBU), WLP001 yeast and the same gravity in each, around 1.040. My concern is I will end up with a lot of very bland...

I have been an all grain brewer for about a year now (about 10 batches under my belt), but after watching the latest Brewing TV I was inspired to try BIAB. It looked simple and I like the idea of a 3 gallon batch. I hit my pre volume gravity and I am in the middle of my boil now. I'm excited to...

After doing a few brews on my new all grain system I am only getting an efficiency between 50% and 60%. I am only using a stainless steel braid in the bottom of my mash tun so I figure this is the main reason for the low efficiency. My main concern is if this efficiency is TOO low and will cause...

Just bottled my Kolsch to be entered into my first competition!

Selling 50lb CO2 tank in good condition. Pickup in Lansing MI only.

Today I realized I have a problem. I have 3 kegs all filled with beer and a carboy fermenting that needs to be transfered to a keg soon but no room. I guess I need to get drinking!

I'm getting married on June 10th and I don't know if I'm more excited to get married or that I was able to talk SWMBO into having craft beer at our wedding. We will have 2 kegs of Miller Lite for the non craft beer drinkers and 1 keg of FOUNDERS DIRTY BASTARD (My fav.). I wanted to have some of...

I purchased 2 used sanke couplers that I plan on using for my wedding. They are both the same brand and model but one of them has a plastic ball inside the coupler and the other does not. I am assuming this ball is to prevent back flow into the keg but I'm not sure. Is this needed? and...

Hops just popped up after only a few days in the ground!

My hops have been planted in the ground today. Excited for when they start popping up!

I started a new keg day tradition today. Whenever I keg my beers I am planning on making a loaf of beer bread with it. Super easy to make and figured I would see how it turns out with each beer style. Sweet stout beer bread is in the oven.

I have 2 1/6 barrel sanke kegs (5 gallon) for sale. I'm not sure what they are worth so I will take offers on them. They are in good shape and I'll ship anywhere in the U.S. at buyers expense.

Looking for a little advise. I'm looking to control my fermenting temp and I was thinking about using an extra bathtub and temp control thermostat. I was curious if anyone has done this and wondered how well it would work. Here is my idea...... Fill bath tub with water. Place carboy in tub...

Tomorrow I will be introducing 3 friends to brewing. Enjoying beers and some beer brats. I hope everyone has a great time!

Currently I am a glass carboy guy but I am thinking about switching to better bottles. I now have the ability to control the ambient temperature around my wort but the walls of the glass carboy insulate the wort and any heat increase caused by the yeast fermentation seems to hang around for a...

I've been looking for growlers all over the internet and they ranged in price from $7-$30 and then I would still have shipping on top of that. This was a little more then I wanted to pay for a couple growlers so I figured I would call my local brewer to see how much they charge for an empty...

I want to cold crash my latest beer so I get a more clear brew. I've search around the forum and understand the general idea (drop to low temperature for a while and yeast will drop out) but I have a couple questions. Do I cold crash in my primary fermenter? Should I rack to a secondary...