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I have an analog temp control, that i'm using for a chest freezer to ferment in. Can I run two devices in to this controler? I understand that they will both be at the same temp, but is this ok to do?

I have a tart cherry stout thats in the secondary, I tasted it last night, and it is very good. It has a deep red hugh to it, with a roasted malt nose to it. The taste is nice and balance with roasted malt and some tart cherry coming through. So the question is do I add the bourbon oak...

This is not going to be what you expcet... You would think that I would be telling you of my goals in homebrewing... Or that I'm going to be building a new rig... Or maybe that I want to win a few brewing awards... Well its nothing like that... Before I get dogged out for this decision...

I went out to eat last night at a spot called Bar louie's. They have a good draft beer selection, and some good deals for happy hour. So I sit down, and my Dad has allready ordered a bucket of yellow fizz, so I decide to order a good beer before I attempt to help him down his crap. So i ask...

Over this last weekend was the 2nd annual fall beer festival in Downtown Detroit. My first thoughts of the weekend are WOW, what a great event. They had a great showing of the very best of what Michigan had to offer. I was impressed with how smoothly everything went. They had a ton of port o...

I dry hopped in my secondary with 2 oz of a few hops. After 3 weeks the hops will not drop off the top, every time I agiate the carboy they start to drop and float around, then when I come back an hour later they are right back on the top. I did put the carboy in a mini fridge to drop the...

I'm off to see the Brewers, the wonderful brewers of Michigan. (wizard of oz) So this weekend, I'm going to Grand Rapids with 6 couples, to take a tour of some fine breweries. 3 of my friends are in a beer club we started (Yeastie Boys). So it should be a awsome time, i'm very excited. This...

Anyone looking for a great beer to pop the top, and have it blow your ceiling out? Or maybe your softball team just won the beer league, and you want a beer to spray your buddies down with. Or maybe you have a mouch friend that comes over all the time, but never brings any beer. Well I have...

Question.....I had a pc for 3 years now...well it crashed over the weekend. Now I went out to by a MAC, which has been great so far. Are all my recipes lost for good, if I don't recover the hard drive. Also since I bought the application once for the pc will they give me a free download for...

Brewed a good looking Black Ipa last night, and I had saved about 1 cup of yeast slurry from the primary of a ipa I did 3 weeks ago. I put the yeast in a food saver bag, and threw it in the fridge for a week til I was ready for this brew day. Well I'm sure your like, whats the big deal? The...

Just picked these up from a guy, story is that he was in the beer of the month club awhile back and he keep one of each beer he received. There are alot of pale ales and lagers, if they all suck I will just reuse the bottles. Hope to hit a couple tastey ones....I'll let you guys know if anyone...

Wife loves this beer, it has a very swwet carbonated bubbling profile to it. The taste of coarse is blueberry, but i have no idea how to brew something like this. Anyone that has tasted the beer please give me an idea. I'm currently only set up to brew extract or partial mash. i would like...

I brewed a Wheat beer a month ago, and it has carbed up nice in the keg. My question is can I add some cherry flavoring to the beer at this point? Would I just purge the co2 out and add the flavor, and reseal? Anything I need to worry about here?

Ok heres the problem..... I like to read HBT at work, so I can plan my brew weekends. For the most part, I can get away with the site until I surf the fourms, and a few guys have a profile pic of a Hot girls butt, or 2 chics kissing, or the very sexy beer girl in next to nothing. Now please...

OK I want to here about some of the lame brain things that people have done that you thought at the time....WTC did I just do!!! But after time and other factors, it turned into OMG this is awsome!!! There has to be some great stories out there, and stuff we can all learn from. My...

Last night was bottling night...oh the joy. I talked my wife into helping, which is a job in itself. I decided that i would finish off 3 batches, so they would be ready for the superbowl. I started at 7pm.......can you guess what time I was done with the clean up? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...