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I'm working on a little coffee maker RIMS system in a little box and am going to and try cram some cam locks in it. It would be handy of there were some bulkhead or panel mount styles available at a reasonable price but I don't see anything out there. Anyway, if I braze a pair of male...

Hi all! It'sbeen a while since I've been around, but I have a great excuse to brew lots of beer! The problem is can I serve it? I know lots of people serve homebrew at the reception, but how may places actually allow this? I'm looking for locations in the St. Louis area that would be...

Reading the forums, I noticed that a lot of people were feeling somewhat guilty about all the water that they go through chilling their beer. As a good engineer interested in thermodynamics, I decided that I would take a shot at tackling this problem. Since many of the people with the water...

My friend and I purchased ingredients to make a double batch, but we only have a large enough pot to do a 5-6 gallon batch (I left the 15 gallon pot at school) So now my question is what should we do with 8 LB Pilsner Malt 2.5 LB Wheat Malt 1 Oz Perle hops 1 Oz Tettanger hops ? I have...

I brewed an American what a month ago, bottled it 2 weeks ago. It has an unpleasant mineral water flavor to it. My dad also tossed in some gypsum when I wasn't looking and was wondering if that could be the culprit. I have tasted this same flavor in some of his other beers and never in mine...

During lunch at work yesterday, I was reading the high volume wort chiller thread during lunch and thought, "Hey, I think I can take this to the next level" So I started thinking up a design, its sort of a cross between a shell and tube and counterflow heat exchanger. It would use 6 1/4"...

As stated. I purchased one for my dad for Christmas. Haven t used it yet, but for $30, I almost bought 2. It comes with a 40,000 Btu burner with an automatic shutoff (I haven't tried bypassing it yet but it should be doable) and a 30Qt. cheapish aluminum pot. While shopping, I found that...

My dad grew up on Grain Belt and still always picks up some when ever he is up in the twin cities. I'm looking for something that I or he could brew that would be somewhat close to grain belt. Thanks

Im about to bottle up a batch of apfelwein and I have another 5 gallons of apple juice ready to go for the next batch. I don't have any more dry Montrachet, but I do have the Montrachet yeast cake from the current batch. The apfelwein has been on it about 2 months at this point so I'm not sure...

So a couple weeks ago, my fridge broke. Since I live in an apartment, the landlord had a new one brought up 3 flights of stairs by his crew. I saw an opportunity in this as it took those guys around 20 minutes to bring the new one up. I asked them if I could keep it and they said "sure go...

Ok, one of my friends parents gave me some malt extract, both a bag of liquid and a bag of dry. The liquid is dated APR 01 2000 and the dry does not have a date, but its hard as a rock. I know this will probably not make a good beer, but I want to know if it could be dangerous at all after a...

Ok, so I dug out an old propane burner my dad pulled out of the trash years ago. It was used to melt a large pot of lead to quench steel for heat treating purposes. The thing is quite large and not very pretty, but I imagine it would work pretty well to get some water boiling for beer. My...

So, I guess my dad got a relatively new 50 gallon nat gas water heater from work. It has a small leak somewhere but were thinking its from a fitting or something. I'm wondering if there are any cool DIY projects we could use it for. I guess its porcelain on steel well insulated. If nothing...

My blow off tube is clogging and my beer is going to be for 2 weeks. I'm using a 3/8" OD tube into a glass straight out of the hole in my lid. What can I do? so I don't come back to an explosion/old smelly mess?

So, I just started a strong scotch ale last night(OK, this morning) and installed a blowoff tube. The temp is 68º and OG was 1.073. Its a 5 gallon batch in an Ale Pail using Windsor Dry yeast. I'm going to be going out of town for a couple weeks for the holidays and was wondering of the...

OK, so SWMBO bought me a Brewers Best Scotch ale extract kit for Christmas so naturally, I had to brew it ASAP. Well, I had wanted to do a bigger beer quite possibly a wee heavy so i decided to beef the kit up a bit and get what i could out of it. It came with 3.3 lbs Amber LME, 1 LB Amber DME...

http://hackaday.com/2009/12/14/monitor-keg-volume-co2-and-temp/ anyone else have something like this?

So I put together a batch of apfelwein, based on Ed Wort's recipe of course, deviating in that I only made 4 gallons and used 2 lbs dark brown sugar instead of the corn sugar that was recommended. As a note, I used Kroger brand apple juice, ingredients: Filtered Water, Apple Juice Concentrate...

Being that I am away from the apartment for Thanksgiving, I decided to get a batch of apfelwine going in the closet as to avoid the rhino farts. This idea had some problems however. Since I am away for 5 days, I didnt want to heat the apartment the whole time. I had an extra thermostat and a...

So I have a batch of Ed Worts Apfelwine in my closet that I got together on Halloween and I would like to get another batch going while I wait for it to finish up so im wondering if i can just put a sealed lid on that bucket and pick up another one so I don't need to get another airlock and...