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Looking for hop union's hop oil http://www.hopunion.com/1022_VarietySpecificHopOil.cfm?p4=open Maybe my google skills suck, but I can't find it anywhere.

Wondering what others are using for their boil. I use a Camco 5500W element on a 5 gallon batch (about 7 gallons preboil) at 55% power. After one hour, I get 22% evaporation rate which seems high to me, but I don't think my boil is too crazy. What do others use?

I have three 5 gallon better bottles and I'm looking to swap out for 6 gallon better bottles. I am in Hoboken. Bottles are in good shape. Been used for 2-5 batches depending on bottle and cleaned only with PBW. No scratch issues. Nate

Anyone have a good way of securing a 1/4" stainless dip tube for volume measurement in a kettle? (via Brewtroller and MPX5010DP). I've seen some in a keggle that look decent but not in a kettle with straight sides. I'd like to have mine more secure to prevent any potential moving around during...

I have been trying to bend my stainless tubing from mcmaster. 8989K98 Welded Type 304 Stainless Steel Tubing, 1/2" OD, .46" ID, .02" Wall, 50' Coil I get small kinks even when making small bends. When I make larger bends, I get major kinks. See below video.

Looking for a tube bender for 1/2" Stainless steel.

I've drilled through some other pots before and haven't had anywhere near the problems that I'm having now. I purchased this pot from morebeer.com and just can't seem to drill through it. http://morebeer.com/view_product/20770/102211/Modified_Brewing_Kettle_-_Economy_15_Gallon I've tried...

So I am planning on plumbing the outlets of my 3 vessel herms electric setup from the center of the bottom of the kettles. Doesn't seem like most people do this but I would think it would be more efficient and easier to clean after brew day. Any reason not to? Nate

Ok, so I'm sure this has some errors in it. But I'm hoping I'm at least close to getting everything right here. I've been working on setting up a a control panel with the brains of a Opentroller DX1. I've stolen some ideas from other builds that I've been looking at and have compiled them into...

So I am building a new setup. It will be a 1 tier, 3 pot, 2 pump electric system. It is similar to theelectricbrewery.com but with a brewtroller for more automation so I don't have to move tubing around during the brewing process. I could do this with a bunch of motorized 2 way valves or use...

Anyone else having problems with the brewtroller website? I'm trying to learn about how to setup a brewtroller system for an electric 3 kettle herms system, but it seems like a lot of the links don't work. Am I missing something? Nate

Anyone know if you can change the measurment units on the iphone app for the "Other Ingredients" and for "Water"? I have a custom water profile where I add small quanities of some additives, but the iphone app displays them in ounces which isn't very helpful. I'd like to be able to change it...

Ok so I just realized I forgot an important step. I'm in the middle of a fermentation that is about 3/4 done and I just remembered that I forgot to add oxygen before pitching yeast! Crap! I luckily used 2 vials of cal ale yeast and even had a very small starter on a stir plate for it just to...

I've changed my beer lines to the mcmaster 3/16" LLDPE hard plastic beer lines. I'm using something like 25' of line and I like my beer a bit more carbonated than average. I'm trying to go with 18 psi at 45 degrees. Problem is that the beer comes out of the lines using my perlick faucets...

I use a whirlpool imersion chller to chill my wort and it works great. I am able to get the wort down to a low temp fairly quickly, but i'd still like to try to make this easier on myself. While chilling, I have to hold the chiller in the kettle or else it will topple over. My kettle is only 8...

So I'm fermenting a lager and it seems to be taking a long time. I'm wondering if I should take it down to the lagering phase now or just let it keep going. The OG was 1.049 using mostly pilsner malt mashed at 152 and this is a 5 gallon batch. Yeast is WLP 830 and I pitched according to mr...

Just curious. Anyone know EXACTLY how much volume can fit into a 5 gal better bottle? All the way up to the very top.

I'm getting about 85% efficiency while sparging. I use 1.25 qts/lb of water and typically do 60-90 min mashes at around 148-153. I fly sparge with about 4 gal or so of water until I reach my 7 gal of perboil water volume. On my last sparge, my final runnings were at 1.016 I know this isn't...

Looking for a lager yeast with the lowest diacetyl. I've read on http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/craft_strains_lagers.html about different strains of lager yeasts. Some have notes about "low diacetyl production", but i'm wondering if there are are more details with specific numbers. Nate

On the beer alchemy iPhone app, the water additions ( gypsum etc...) show up in ounces instead of grams. I would prefer grams/gallon or something like that because looking at ounces/gallon is silly. Anyone know how to change this?