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Hi All, Been awhile seince I posted but im about to get back into the homebrew game by downsizing my brewlength... here goes. For Sale: $2,500 OBO 1-55gal Blichmann Kettle with brewers hardware whirlpool port 1-30gal Blichmann Kettle 1-27gal Blichmann Conical 2- Custom made stands one of...

I have a raspberry brown ale brew-day coming up and I'm wondering what methods people use for adding the fruit. My plan was to purée some frozen raspberries and add them after primary fermentation. I have a conical and I'm planning a 20 gallon batch using 20 pounds (!!!!) of berries my concern...

I have a buddy who has his home bar nearly complete. I have not seen the it with my own eyes yet but he tells me his beer line goes down through his floor into a kegerator in his basement approximately a 20ft run. I know he will need some way to cool the lines i was thinking of setting him up...

so i have my direct fire RIMS system almost where i want it but im still running into a major issue. I thought consulting the brain trust here before i go on a mission later today to fix things before brew-day Sunday would be wise. I use a BCS-462 to control my entire brewery (full equipment...

Hey everybody, I recently started a blog and after putting a few posts up on it i decided it was ready to bring to the public. I'm hoping to go pro someday so it will talk about homebrewing, brew school, commercial beer tastings, and pro brewing news/events/ musings. Please check it out...

Just got my NHC results and decided to enter the NYE fair competition. Does anybody know if you can enter more than 1 beer per category ? The rules did not specially say one entry per category like the NHC ruled did. Further what do my fellow New Yorkers have for entries ? I'm hoping to send 5...

did a tripel brewday on sunday for my brothers birthday, we made a lawnmower beer losely based on the cream of 3 crops recipie a herb saison that will have lavander and thyme and we attempted a blonde ale. The lawnmower beer and saison went great but we were getting tired and scorched the mash...

anybody think we will see NHC results posted today ? i saw saratoga springs (my judging center) seemed to be understaffed and holding things up a bit. This is my first year entering so i have been on edge all week waiting for results.

ok so i got my ward labs report a long while ago and after some hoppy beers came out good but not spectacular i decided it was time to get into water adjustment. heres my starting water profile Calcium-61 Magnesium-14 Sodium-28 Chloride-48 Sulfate-9 Bicarbonate-190 Chloride-Sulfate...

*EDIT*This is a reallt long thread, lots of pictures not many words*EDIT* After building my brewery for over a year I decided it high time to post some pictures. Heres what we started with, just a painted corner of the basement After this we upgraded our kettles and added some stainless...

Im looking to get a pound of whole warrior hops but cant seem to source them through hops direct or freshops. Anybody know of any other bulk hop suppliers out there ? I could go with pellets instead but would prefer whole hops.

On Christmas day i brewed a 20 gallon batch of barleywine with intentions of aging it to drink next christmas. My target OG was 1.101 and target IBU's 101.4. Brew day went well my preboil gravity was 1.073, however, checking the wort gravity at post boil i got 1.063 with my refractometer...

anybody seen the new conical from toledo metal spinning ? (http://www.toledometalspinning.com/hopper/default.php) looks good in terms of price but im not sure how it compares to the blichmann model. Dosnt appear to have the lid hatch like the blichmann and im not sure of the racking arm rotates...

Had my first brewday with the BCS last Sunday and loved using the controller.:ban: I was having a little bit of trouble holding my mash temperature. I use an uninsulated 30 gallon blichmann mash tun with a false bottom. It's directly fired and I recirculate throughout the entire mash process. I...

This sunday im going to brew up 20 gallons of spiced christmas ale that i hope to have ready by the holidays. The target OG is 1.070 so its a big beer i have a 5000 ml flask and a stirplate but i will not be able to get to the LHBS until saturday. Mr.Malty calls for 4.56 Liters of starter with 4...

Almost up and running on my new single trier system and I was looking to monitor/ control the flow rate out of my MLT. I was able to find a reasonably priced flow rate monitor ($84) however its only rated to 150*. What methods do you guys use to control your flow rate other than the crack the...

Ok so we have purchases 2 jet burners. One is a 110,000 btu and the other is a 170,000 btu. (we have a 55 gl boil) . These are natural gas burners and i want to be able to use the with our BCS (automation) Som my question is what 24 v Gas valve do i use? Thankyou in advance for any help you can...

after coming into some stainless tables for the low price of "get these F$%*ing things out of my garrage !" i decided to make some burner stands. Pictures of the process follow

im in the process of building a large system in my basement. I'm thinking of doing about 40 gallon boils (already have the 55 gal. blichman) to get about a 33-36 gallon fermentation, I'm looking into burners right now have natural gas piped into the house so i would like to hard plump the system...

My brother and i have come up with a quick and easy albeit messy way to remove labels from bottles.What you see is a brass wire wheel on a bench grinder, it tears off labels in no time and does no damage to bottles, all we did was soak the bottles in plain tap water for a half hour and took off...