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I am coming back to my hometown of Milwaukee/Waukesha, Wisconsin over the long Fourth of July weekend (6/30 to 7/7) to visit friends and family. I have not been back in several years and was planning on hitting a few brewery tours and maybe checking out some local homebrew shops. Tours...

I have a March pump I am incorporating into my process thanks to the many benefits learned through this forum. I do not yet have a brew stand/rig as I am trying to decide/review which style suits my needs best (RIMS/HERMS/Gravity). Do anyone use a March pump by itself not attached to a brew...

...explosion that is. I made this Pitch Dark IPA on Memorial Day and placed it on my fermentation freezer at 63 degrees, only using a 3 piece airlock like I always do. I used Nottingham yeast, one packet only. Checked tonight and whoops! The fermentation had not only blown the airlock out of...

I have my pump and silicone hoses ready to go, but I am trying to decide if I really need Quick Disconnects. Does anyone just push them on to the barb and pull them off when moving from vessel to vessel? Or will the pressure from the moving liquid cause them to slip off midflow? I do not plan...

Hey guys. I just had a Widmer W '10 Pitch Black Ale and loved it. I am going to attempt a recipe along the lines of it / Cascadian Black Ale and wanted to see what the general thoughts were of the following recipe based off their website: 6 gallon batch 60 minute boil 11# Pale 2-row 1#...

I am wondering about putting a keg of Apfelwein on tap as I have always bottled my batches before. If I keg it and serve through beer lines (that have been cleaned and sanitized of course) will the acidity of the Apfelwein become permanent and only usable for another batch of the same? I...

I am looking to build a chiller, either a CFC or an IC to handle cooling wort in my newly built 15.5 gallon keggle. I am leaning toward something like Jamil's with the whirlpool return, which gets the wort circulating against the IC, but I wanted to see what everyone else built and make a final...