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On May 20, I brewed a batch of IPA. I set up my GoPro camera to take a photo every 5 seconds. This is the result, 3.5 hours of all-grain brewing, condensed into under 2 minutes, and set to the "Cash 4 Gold" music from a recent episode of South Park. Enjoy.

I'm trying to get my new brewstand running and have run into an issue with my march pump. I got the pump from a coworker who bought a bunch of homebrew gear but never got into the hobby, and it seems to work fine. I have mounted it with the motor axis horizontal and the inlet/outlet horizontal...

I have two thermometers and a digital temperature controller. I have been using an ordinary lab thermometer the entire time I've been brewing, but recently bought a dial thermometer with the intent of installing it into my MLT, so I decided to check the two against each other (and the...

I brewed this recipe on 8/29: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/fat-tire-clone-6048/#post56233 I ended up with about 9 gallons which was split roughly 50/50 between two carboys. One carboy received Nottingham dry yeast, one received Safale US-05. After about two weeks in the primary, I...

I have this running in my living room right now. The house has fluctuated between 75 and 85 F and I have yet to see either of the fermenters get up to 70 F. Typically I have seen 66-68 F. Fermentation is very active. These carboys hold 10 gallons of brown ale that I brewed on Saturday and...

I recently got a few corny kegs off Craigslist. To my eyes, they look like they've had a lot of miles (gallons?) put on them. I've gotten the impulse to try and shine them up a bit. I hit a patch on one of them with my RO sander tonight, starting with 60 grit, followed by 100 and 220. I then...

I received a pin-lock corny keg from a friend recently. He'd had it in his garage for years. It was never properly cleaned after its last use, so it was filthy inside and out, and had lots of rust spots. Most people seem to think that stainless doesn't rust. It does. It's rust-resistant, but not...

I received a free full-size kitchen fridge today which I am going to convert into a kegerator. Trouble is, it was trucked to my house on its side. My understanding is that this will cause problems with the compressor, which is only designed to work in its upright orientation. I've heard that...

I brewed a new IPA today...just sort of winged it and came up with the grain bill on the spot at the LHBS based on what I could remember of some of the successful IPA recipes I've brewed over the last six months. For the hop additions, I have had a lot of small bags of hops floating around in my...

I recently bought some fittings and I did some research to compare the relative price of three different popular types of "quick disconnect" fittings: Brass sleeve-lock Brass cam-and-groove (aka cam-lock) Stainless tri-clamp I figured I'd share what I found. Might help someone make a...

Half of the US has been covered in snow, but over here in Seattle the last few days we've had the best weather we've seen since last September. This Saturday and Sunday, it was about 60 F, blue skies, and a mild breeze. My old MLT came down with an intractable case of mold recently, so I set...

I left a couple of 1-gallon SMASH brews sit in the primary for 52 days. They were done BIAB-style on my kitchen stove and I used only Munich malt. I finally got around to gearing up to bottle them today and they smell very strongly of vinegar. There is no visible sign of infection that I can...

I finally got around to ordering some boxes for all my bottles. My LHBS only sells flimsy 6-pack holders so I had to go online. I bought two bundles of ten 24-pack boxes from here which arrived this week. Paid $105.37 in total, which works out to $5.27 per case, or 22 cents per bottle. A...

(chuckger's build) I've purchased parts to build a hop strainer, a lot like the one in this picture (and the one in the HBT wiki). I realize this is a relatively simple assembly, but to a new brewer it could seem fancy and complicated at first glance. So, I am going to take photos and describe...

I have access to a small laser engraver/cutter at my job which I recently learned how to use. Naturally, I immediately turned my thoughts to homebrewing. Bottle caps are metal. Probably steel. Steel can be etched with a laser. So I brought in a handful of different colored caps and tried the...

I just started brewing a couple of months ago, but I've got about a half dozen all-grain batches under my belt by now. My first AG was EdWort's Haus Pale Ale. After two weeks in the bottle, it was heavenly. Truly amazing beer. So I brewed it again a month later. The new batch is now at just over...

I bought a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada Kellerweis last week and noticed the substantial amount of yeast at the bottom of the bottles. I decided to do a little experiment and see if I could harvest it, which I've never done before. I boiled up a few ounces of water, dumped a handful of light DME...

I left a batch of spent grains in my cooler MLT for a week. They started to rot/ferment as would be expected. In the past when this happened, I did a 30 minute oxyclean soak after cleaning, and the rotting smell was gone after rinsing. This time it's lingering. I'm doing a second...

I've recently been toying with the idea of doing lots of little 1-gallon test batches. Lots of SMASH brews and experimental stuff to expand my knowledge and get me started on coming up with my own recipes. I figure keeping things on such a small scale means I can do all-grain in my kitchen and...

I normally buy a packet of sugar from my LHBS which is measured out to be the proper amount for a 5-gallon brew. Due to a mistake on my part I do not have the packet I bought for this batch anymore, but I have the time and energy to bottle tonight. I'm bottling what I am estimating will be 4...