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I'm ready to buy some Perlick 525's to replace my cheap-o faucets that came with my dual tap tower that I bought from Beverage Factory. My question is, do I need to buy Perlicks WITH the shank or will the Perlick faucet by itself fit on my existing shanks?

I know you guys must be beaten down with water newbs asking for advice, but I'm going to go ahead and swallow my pride and ask anyway..... I got my water report back from Wards and started playing around with Bru'n Water. I've plugged in my numbers and selected a profile of "Amber Malty" (I'm...

I have a recipe that calls for US Northern Brewer hops, but all I can find at my LHBS are German Northern Brewer hops. Are these two varieties interchangeable, or are these two completely different hops?

I just went to Shax's liquor store in Lake Dallas and the crazy man behind the counter would not fill my tank. When I came in he asked me how big the tank was and I told him it was a 5 lb tank, which it is. He says, there's no way that it is a 5 lb tank because it's too big. He looks at the tank...

I just got a brand new Barley Crusher and am curious if it should be cleaned before using it the first time? The instructions didn't indicate what could or not be used to clean it. I'm wondering what other mill owners did when using their mill for the first time?

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area has any leads on where to find the best price for a 50lb sack of 2-row, local pick up. The cheapest I've found so far is $50, but I was hoping to find it cheaper. Any help would be appreciated!

I brewed a recipe last weekend that came from a professional brewer in which the recipe called for 85% efficiency. I didn't realize this until I had already purchased my grain and was getting ready to mash. On my best brew day I'm lucky to hit 70% efficiency, so hitting 85% wasn't going to...

Last weekend I brewed 3 different batches with 3 different yeast (US-05, WLP001, and WLP380). I attached blow off tubes to all three carboys and had all 3 tubes going to one jug of star-san. One of the batches had a pretty heavy blow off and sent a lot of yeast into the jug of star-san. It...

I was brewing a recipe this weekend that called for "X" amount of hops for the full 60 minute boil. However, the hops used in the original recipe were only 6.5% alpha acid while the hops I bought at the LHBS were 9.4% alpha acid. Therefore, in order to hit the IBU target for the batch I had to...

So I made a 5 gallon batch of of an Irish Red and split it up into two 2/12 gallon kegs. The first keg tasted great until about 3/4 of the way through the keg. At that point it developed a bitter flavor that wasn't there before. The head retention had also dissipated, though the beer didn't seem...

I was fortunate enough to obtain a new bar for the living room a few weeks ago (fortunate enough to talk my wife into it :D ). The bar itself is great, but it was in need of a kegerator. There really wasn't much room for a fridge, so I bought a small one from Wal-mart and decided to go with 2.5...

I'm in the process of building a kegerator for my home bar and am trying to decide if I should store my co2 cylinder in one of my bar cabinets and run gas lines to the kegerator or just store the cylinder inside the kegerator itself. What is your preference and why?

I know that there is beer line specific tubing like Bev-Seal Ultra, etc. , but as far as just the regular clear beer line tubing, is it the same pvc tubing that a LHBS would sell you for siphoning? I was under the impression that beer line tubing was thicker to handle the psi of a pressurized...

Well you guys have inspired me to improve the taste of my beer by taking better control of fermentation temps. My garage is pretty much wall to wall work benches, so to not take up any more room I decided to incorporate a fermentation chamber underneath one of my work benches. I wanted to...

Though I have brewed off and on since the early 90's, it wasn't until a few years ago that I got into brewing hard and heavy. Within a few months I was brewing all-grain, had a kegerator, and the whole nine yards. The problem was that once I felt that I had mastered brewing (was able to make...

I'm venturing into doing a yeast starter for the first time and could use some suggestions on where to find a good flask. The flasks on NB don't have the best reviews, as most reviewers say they are too thin and break easily. Are some flasks made thicker than others or are they pretty much...

Had my yearly physical and discovered that I am a few points away from pre-diabetes. After a lot of pondering I have decided to get out of homebrewing all together. I am selling my complete basic all grain brewing set up along with my less than a year old dual tap kegerator. I am selling the...

I know in some other threads there has been some discussion about a perceived taste in homebrew, a sort of home brew "twang" if you will. Some have said this is a result of extract brewing while others contend that great tasting beer can be made from extract. I'm sure that others can indeed make...

So after watching the Basic Brewing video podcast about boiling double the amount of hops for 15 minutes vs. boiling a standard amount of hops for 60 minutes, I decided to give it a try. The theory here is that you can increase the hop aroma and flavor while not losing bitterness by boiling...

I have some hops left over from the last few batches I've done, so I thought I would use them in a recipe that I made up while playing around on Brewsmith. I would greatly appreciate any comments as to what you think this may taste like. If you have a better suggestion for a recipe that I can...