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To start off, I've been kegging beer for going on 3 years, and this issue just started coming up. Background info: I recently moved, and the water in my new place is ****ty, so I've been doing mash additions of chalk, gypsum, and/or calcium carbonate to help with that. This is the only...

I'm about to move into an apartment, and I'm playing with different ideas for reusing water so I'm not dumping a lot of water off my balcony where I'll be brewing. One thing I'm thinking of is getting some type of plastic barrel and running my IC water into it, then using that water for the...

So I've been brewing for about 4 years now, with a few hundred gallons under my belt. I've used this site from day 1 for help understanding things, to formulating my own recipes. The first recipe I created by myself back in '09 just took first place in the Imperial/Strong category of a...

So I won a free smack pack from Wyeast for getting best in class at a recent competition. The problem is that I rinse my yeast, so I have about 5 batches each worth of American Ale II, London Ale III, Belgian Abbey, and a wild brett that I caught in my back yard. These 3 pretty much cover...

This is my first time catching some wild yeast. A while back I took some extra wort from my sparge, put it in a mason jar, and left it outside for a few days until it started to bubble. Then I put the jar in my brew room for about 5-6 weeks, until I was ready to brew (hoping it would sour up a...

I have only seen one Rebel Mill setup with a motor, so I thought I'd share my experience and process for those wanting to motorize this monster. I started by figuring out what gear ration I wanted. Rebel recommends 350-450 RPM for the motor. Since I didn't want to have a huge gear reduction...

Has anybody made the Mister Boing Boing Cherry Barley Wine from Radical Brewing? I'm doing a completely different recipe for a barleywine, but want to add some cherries where I smoke half of them. I'm just not sure how much to add. This recipe calls for 12 lbs, which seems like a ****ton. I...

I'm having trouble wiring my motor to the run capacitor. I'm a little confused by the number of wires and the configuration that the diagram is telling me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm wanting to hook it up to a on/off/on switch. Below is the wiring diagram. A simple...

This is my first time getting yeast from a bottle, but I've made 3,486 starters. I harvested the yeast from a single 750mL bottle of Chimay blue a few nights ago. Made a 200mL starter and put it on the stirplate. The next night I stepped it up to 2000mL. After the initial 200mL, I didn't...

Bored at work, I came across this article about how IPA's mature at hot temperatures differently than cellar. It made me think of my recent cross-country move: Last April for a graduation party I bought a keg of Flying Dog Double Dog IIPA. After tornadoes destroyed Tuscaloosa and I couldn't...

I recently moved into a new house that has a big sour apple tree in the back yard. My first thought of what to do with the apples was Apfelwein. I have a Kitchenaid stand mixer with a fruit/vegetable strainer attachment I was going to use to juice the apples, then based on the amount of...

I've had some questions about a sweet potato stout, but couldn't find many answers so I decided to try it out. The recipe is as follows: 6lb Amber LME 2lb Dark DME 3lb Black Roasted Barley 1.5lb Chocolate Malt 1.5lb Special B 05lb Flaked Barley 0.5lb Black Patent 6.75lb fresh sweet...

I sanitized my batch's bottles before bottling today, but noticed about half-way through bottling that some of the them still had a slippery glue residue in the inside of them. I immediately panicked, but figured since the beer was in those bottles already and capped, I'd have to "charge it to...

I'm wanting to brew up an imperial sweet potato stout for this winter. I've got everything planned how I'd like to do it except one thing: I'm not really sure how to deal with the sweet potatoes since I'm doing extract. I'm guessing I can treat them similar to pumpkins, and I've read anything...

This is our first time brewing and me and a friend are trying the AHS Summit IPA. We used 2 packs of wyeast 1056 ad the brewvint fuel. We pitched the yeast and got it all sealed up Saturday afternoon. Sunday it was bubbling pretty rapidly. Monday afternoon it had slowed to about half of the...