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It would be nice to have a thread where whoever wants to contribute can record how long it takes to chill their beer from boil to knock out. Today I'm brewing a lager and so far it is taking forever to get down to 50dF or less. I'd love to know what kinds of chillers lager brewers are using to...

I planted three Columbus rhizomes about a month ago and have seen no growth at all yet. Unfortunately their patch of garden wasn't ready when I thought and they spent some time in the fridge and seemed pretty dry when I finally got them in the ground. I'm on the border between KY and OH. I've...

I finished this workbench/fermentation chamber the other day. I had planned on the left side being closed off and insulated for fermenting, and the right side I want to set up to have a bucket underneath and turn into a milling station. Here's where I'm not sure how to design it, though: How can...

I'm trying to drum up interest for a bulk grain buy in NKY, specifically the Cincy area. There's a thread in the Ohio forum if any would be interested.

I've got a barleywine that is about 6-7 months old. Its kegged up and sitting a 38F and 2.0 volumes of CO2. I want to bottle condition it and bring it to 2.5 volumes. I do not want to carb it the rest of the way and then bottle it. Anyone have a calculator or formula for how much sugar to...

Can someone tell me what's going on? The plant is a 2nd year Cenntennial. I initially trained 4 bines and pruned the rest back. The started on one of the bines but now seems to be spreading to the rest. And here's one of a leaf that is ok for now, but has these lighter spots.

Hi guys, I built this a week or two ago. I plan on using it for ale fermentation only, as I've got a chest freezer for lager brewing and conditioning. So far I haven't gotten around to actually fermenting in it, but it will hold at 60F empty in the Nashville weather. It's big enough for at...

I'd like some suggestions on how to troubleshoot the pours off the kegerator I recently built. I'll start with the details: Set to 38F (analog controller) PC fan circulating air Regulator set to 12PSI 6" collar 7' 3/16 bev-grade lines Perlick 525 faucets I've looked at formulas for balancing...

Anybody had a chance to try these out yet? I've got 7oz, will probably make an IPA with them tomorrow.

EDIT: I couldn't get my Blichmann to drain. After it wouldn't drain past the top of the drain fitting/dip tube connection, I took it apart to see what I could see. When I put it back together, the dip tube wasn't seated correctly in the drain fitting, so it didn't drain again. I took it apart...

I'm going to brew a Pliny clone in the next week or two, and was just wondering if anyone had brewed more than one of the different clones out there. Dude's recipe looks to be close to the one put out by RR, with the biggest difference being the mash hops in Dude's. There's the IIPA recipe...

Where are you guys sourcing milk crates for carrying your carboys?

So my chest freezer only has room for 4 carboys and 3 cornies. I've got two lagers fermenting in the 4 carboys, so the temp is set at 50F. I've also got four cornies filled with finished/need lagering beers that don't fit in the chest freezer. Now that the weather is getting cooler here in...

My March pump is leaking. The leak is coming from between the two halves of the plastic head. I tried taking it apart and checking the little gasket, but the leak persisted. I tried taking it apart and hitting the gasket with keg lube, but no luck. The screws are tightened more or less all...

First, I don't know much about pumps and am not handy in general. Hopefully I can describe what's going on clearly and someone can help me out. I inherited a March MDXT-3. I've been using it to whirlpool. I'll start it recirc'ing the boil with about 15 minutes left to heat sanitize, and...

I brewed a triple with this yeast last weekend. I made a starter, about 1g, chilled and decanted. Pitched into 10.5g of 1.074 wort at 65F. Recipe was basically Jamil's BCS tripel, almost all pilsner malt, but I mashed at 151 instead of 149 or whatever he's got. Oxygenated with a...

I didn't double check the clamp on my hose braid before starting this morning, and while mashing in the hose braid popped off. I've got about 30lbs of grain in 9g of 150F water. Any creative solutions to getting the hose braid back on there? I figure worst case scenario is dumping...

I've got a 21.4CF chest freezer that I'm going to build a collar for. I'll try to take pictures and stuff as I go, but I wanted to see if anyone has any tips, tricks, suggestions, etc. So far my plan is to build a 2x6 collar and attach it to the freezer, as the lid is already heavy enough...

So I had a brain fart this morning and left 1lb of Belgian aromatic out of my mash this morning. It's about 9% of the grain bill. I batch sparge, so I rest for 60m, mash out if needed, then collect first runnings, add sparge water, collect second runnings, add sparge water, and collect my final...