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I have 2 sets of Blichman qd's for a therminator and 1 backflush hose that I will not be using. Make me an offer if interested.

I have finally completed my Brutus Build. I ended up getting very sick mid build and had to postpone things for several weeks. I finally finished it this past weekend and have already brewed three batches with it, learning something with each batch. I absolutely love this thing and just want to...

I have been working on acquiring all the parts for about a month now. Just got back from dropping off the burners and pumps at the welders. I am going to be mounting hurricane burners very similar to the way nicksteck did in his build. While the welder is working on building the stand I have...

Does anyone know if there is a way to import/export inventory using beersmith? I have just purchased a new laptop and would like to import my inventory into it. i have not figured a way to do this other than hand inputting them all.

I recently converted a Best Buy Oster refrigereator into a kegerator with a two tap tower (thank you slipgate for the instructions). I can not get anything but foam when I try to pull a pint from the tower. I am cooling the tower with a small 3" muffin fan mounted in a food storage container...

I plan on bottling a Vienna lager this weekend. I have read that lagers may require a another small addition of yeast at bottling time. For those of you who have bottled lagers.... do you do this? If so, how much yeast do you add and do you just pitch it in to the bottling bucket? The original...

I have a 5 gallon Rubbermaid round cooler. Is this too small to make into a MLT for brewing 5 gal. batches?

I purchased a 2 Micron Stainless Steel Diffusion aeration stone. I also purchased a cheap aquarium pump that indicates it is for a 5 - 10 gal. aquarium. I brewed a IPA last night and used my new aeration system for the first time. It was late by the time I was finishing up but I could not see...

I believe I have my first batch of infected beer. It has been in the bottle for a little over 3 weeks and has been continually tasting more sour and seems thinned out. One week after bottling it tasted very close to what I was hoping for. But has been deteriorating ever since. Tonight when I...

I have a Pale Ale that I brewed a few weeks ago. It was fashioned after a recipe that I have brewed before from a Austin Homebrew kit. The kit brewed excellent beer. I pulled some of the kit beer out at my daughters college graduation party. Everyone loved it, and at the end of the party I...

Does the volume of water that you use to steep the grains make a difference? If I am making a 5.5 gallon extract recipe with specialty grains. I want to start with 6.5 gallons of water to allow for evaporation during the boil. Can I steep the grains in the 6.5 gallons of properly heated water...

I made a yeast starter on Monday evening expecting to be able to brew tonight. Something has come up and I will not be able to brew tonight. How long will this starter remain viable? I can probably brew tomorrow. Yeast: White labs 1002 Starter gravity:1.055

I visited a HBS near Portland, Oregon today. I purchased some ingredients to make a Mirror Pond pale ale clone. I have brewed this once before with a kit from Austin Homebrew. It turned out very good so I took a copy of the recipe with me to the HBS so I could get the ingredients to brew it...

I transfered a spiced wheat in to secondary today. I encountered a problem and lost about 1/2 gal of beer in process. I now have about 4 1/2 gallons in a 6 1/2 gallon secondary. Is this too much head room for oxygen? Should I just go ahead and bottle now being it has already reached final...

Made this for an American Pale Ale I bottled yesterday.

I have a Alaksn Amber extract kit from Austin Homebrew. I would like to do this as a full boil instead of just the 2 1/2 gals. Can anyone tell me what to do? The recipe is as follows. 1/2 lb. Crystal 60L 1/2 lb. Crystal 90L 7 1/2 lb. Pale Extract 3/4 oz. Cascade 1/4 oz. Saaz White Labs...

This is probably a stupid question, but I will ask anyway. In everything I have read they always say to be sure airlock is filled 1/2 way with water. What is the purpose of 1/2 way? What happens if it is more or less than 1/2 way.

I just received a Mirror Pond Pale Ale- Extract kit from Austin Homebrew. The recipe calls for 3 additions of hops (bittering, flavor,dry hopping). My question is that in the recipe instructions it lists 1oz. of cascade hops for each of these. But the kit included two 1oz. packages of...

Made this label for my Dos Equis clone.

I just got a free, used, half size referigerator from a gentleman down the street who was replacing the one in his motor home. I want to get a temperature controller for it. Would this be something that I could pick up at Lowe's or Home Depot, or is it more of a specialty item I would need to...