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500 OBO - pick up online in Elizabeth, NJ Built in 2015 Holds 4 corny kegs, but in its current set up can only have 3 on CO2 at a time. May need collar insulation and possibly a new interior co2 regulator in order to run more efficiently. Interior and exterior regulator included Tap...

I recently put together an ESB recipe and since I've never brewed this style before I'd like to get some feed back on the recipe before buying the ingredients. Note this recipe is inspired by Fuller's ESB, but I added cascade hops to add some citrus character to the beer. Malts: 10.5 lbs...

I know I should probably wait till the wort/beer has been in the primary for a couple of weeks before I dry hop it, but I'd like to have my IPA as a summer beer. So I thought I'd do the following.... Since on day 7 (friday) I still saw some airlock activity I'd wait till till sunday to dry...

A friend and I had an idea to brew an imperial stout for the winter and brew it sometime in the next few week so we can age it with bourbon soaked oak chips and cold pressed coffee until December. While using an online brew calculator and choosing which hops to put in my recipe. I help...

I am in the 2nd half of my primary fermenting of an IPA I brewed last thurs. and am planning on dry hopping it on Friday (1 week mark). As a new homebrewer I currently do not have a carboy to use as a secondary fermenter. What are the pros and cons of using a bottling bucket as a secondary...

I hope to start filming some homebrewing videos, but for now most of the videos I post on my beer blog ( http://craftbrewadvocate.com ) are craft beer reviews. I thought it would be cool to start reviewing some home brews. In the reviews I do a typical beer review but also share some background...

Living in NYC where most apartments (including mine) do not have central AC makes it hard to home brew in the summer because only certain rooms have window unit ACs and leaving them running can get quite expensive. As such, I had an idea to move my primary fermenter to my parents house in NJ by...

Living in NYC where most apartments (including mine) do not have central AC makes it hard to home brew in the summer because only certain rooms have window unit ACs and leaving them running can get quite expensive. As such, I had an idea to move my primary fermenter to my parents house in NJ by...

Recently I brewed my first all grain batch starting late on a Thursday night and all was going well until I remembered that I forgot to buy ice to chill the wort once the boil was done. So in my warm NYC apartment I grabbed things out of the freezer to attempt to chill the wort down as fast...

Recently I brewed my first all grain batch starting late on a Thursday night and all was going well until I remembered that I forgot to buy ice to chill the wort once the boil was done. So in my warm NYC apartment I grabbed things out of the freezer to attempt to chill the wort down as fast...

Recently I bought ingredients to brew my first all-grain IPA, and realized that my boil kettle isn't wide enough to steep all the grains in one muslin bag so I came up with the following idea. 1) split the grains (10.5lbs two-row and 1.25lbs specialty grains) into two bags (one muslin and one...