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I’ve had my Cereal Kill grain mill for about 10 years and has been great with no issues im until recently. The last couple of batches I have run through it, I have had to empty the hopper as the non powered roller was not rolling. It moves just fine by hand with no grain. It will also work...

I'm brewing a Pale Ale on Saturday, but I'm not sure which yeast I want to use. I have the following on hand: Lalbrew East Coast Lalbrew Voss Kveik Safale S-33 Est. OG: 1.046 30 Minute Boil Mash @ 152 8 lb 8 oz (77.3%) — Simpsons Pale Ale Golden Promise — Grain — 2.5 SRM 1 lb (9.1%) —...

Anyone brewing with straight tap water with success, no adjustments other than maybe a campden tablet? I brewed with tap water for years outside with a cooler and pot before moving inside with the Anvil 2 years ago. No adjustments to water (local water report is incomplete for brewing...

So after 13 years, I'm finally going to build a fermentation chamber out of an older mini-fridge with a collar added to the front or my current kegerator when I upgrade it. Aside from a temperature controller, do I need to run a heat source in it? It will be in my basement where ambient is...

I have to defrost my kegerator as the backplate has developed an ice block. Not surprising, and I have done this before, but with a hair dryer. Can I use a heat gun? Will it be too hot? I do not want to melt or burn anything. Thank you

Anyone else experience this sometimes? You think your keg is close to kicking, with a beer ready to go as soon as it does. 8 pints later (not all at once - usually) and its still pouring. I must not drink as much as I use to, or maybe its just the anticipation of the new keg? And the kicker...

I have the following grain bill. 9.5lbs Golden Promise 1lb White Wheat 8oz Carapils 4oz Acid Malt 4oz C-60 OG: 1.047 given 65% eff. Can decide on a hop schedule 1 have 8oz of Simcoe and 12oz of Centennial on hand. I also have the following yeasts on hand to choose from: US-05 S-33...

I have had a kegland counterflow chiller for almost 2 years but have never used it, I have been using a Duda Diesel 30 plate for the last 5 or 6 years now. I have finally bought fittings for it and am going to try it it on my next batch. I am familiar with using and cleaning it, but my...

I am thinking of replacing my current Intertap standard faucets for the Nukatap Flow Control faucets. I have read that some users have had issues with them leaking due to them not having a rear gasket when sealing to the shank. But alot of these threads just die with no final input on the...

The other day I disconnected my empty keg to fill and carb. When I got everything back together again and turned the gas on, I set at 30 psi. I checked 10 to 15 minutes later and the psi shot up to almost 50 psi. So I turned the gas to the keg off at the regulator, the the needle on the psi...

Last year, it seemed like every other beer I brewed up was some sort of brown ale. The way its looking, this year every other batch will be some version of a stout. I was thinking of trying to do a version of a dry stout, except using Cascade hops instead of standard european hops. I am...

Last year I made an amber ale that was probably one of the best I have ever done. I wanted to re-create that malt bill but change up the hop bill. Last years version was bittered with Nugget and later additions of Centennial and Willamette. A few weeks ago I had the Green Flash Imperial IPA...

I am brewing a session ale this morning with locally grown Cascade hops but cannot decide on my schedule. I want it to be as balanced as possible. Here is the malt bill: 6lbs Maris Otter .5 Lb Brown Malt .5 C-120 .5 lb table sugar (late addition) Mash at 152 OG: 1.042 (based on...

For the upcoming fall months, I have decided I want to brew a string of low abv session beers. I chose a porter to the the first. Let me know what you think. based on 75% efficiency 7# Maris Otter .75#Chocolate Malt .5# Black Patent or black barley .5# Crystal 60 Mash @ 154 1oz...

I have been brewing just shy of 6 years now and one question that I never really asked myself before is about the temperature of the final gravity reading. I tried searching online, but could not find a clear answer. I always calibrate initial original gravity (OG) and make temperature...

So I started all grain brewing a year and a half ago and with my system religiously got 65% efficiency, not the best but I will take consistency above all to make things easy. So for my birthday my wife bought me a grain crusher. I was finally plugging in the numbers from my last batch and it...

Last August I had a leak on a keg. I was able to seal it, however I did have to switch from a 5lb tank to a 20lb tank due to availability. Fast Forward to now. I have forced carbed and served at least 15 kegs of that same 20lb tanks. I kegged a hefeweizen on Wednesday night with my...

I have been kegging for 2 1/2 years now. I was running 5ft lines with Perlick Flow Control faucets (cheating.) Temperature inside is on average 38 degrees and I had pressure set to 12 psi. Yesterday I finally decided to change out the old lines, which on a standard 2 tap tower is a major...

So today was the first run in my new 15 gallon brew kettle. I am still running my typical 5.5 gallon batches. When I was done today, I only had 3.5 gallons make it into the fermentor. I also tried my friends bayou classic burner as opposed to my regular turkey fryer set up. Same type...

So, I got a great deal on a 15 gallon aluminum brew-pot. I tried to install a weld-less kettle valve from Williams Brewing, but I drilled the hole a little off on the outside of the pot and it leaks. I tried to add another o-ring on the outside to seal it, but no good. I do not want to try to...