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After years of brewing in a electric keggle, I'm moving up to an actual electric kettle and am looking for others experiences. Generally done 10 gallon batches but on higher gravity beers or when I've pushed volume up to 13-14 gallons, obviously gets a bit tight on the boilovers. I'm also...

Looking for a standard 2 tap tower, with or without taps. Thanks!

Sucks. Doubly so when there's almost an entire u haul load occupied by brewing gear. It doesn't help that the draft setup has been dismantled and won't go back together for a month or so. The light at the end of the tunnel - the wife has agreed to an electric build once settled, and a...

I'm planning to do a 10 gallon batch of irish red tomorrow - shooting for an OG in the 1.050 is range and a quick fermentation on Notty. I'm going to run off the first 5 gallons to style, but am debating doing a hop stand to the final 5 gallons (perhaps with either centennial, or going...

Time to refill some fermenters and kegs - one of my tap lines is dry, and 3 others ready to kick any day now. Damn you work travel for cutting into my brew time. I brewed 10 gallons of mild (OG 1.036) to function basically as a starter yesterday. Pitched 5 gallons with notty and 5 gallons...

18-24" snow called for by Wednesday AM. Plenty of beer and cider on tap. A few bottles of barleywine in the fridge. Oh yeah, milk, eggs, bread... yadda yadda. Snow tires got put back on the car last week, and if it gets really nasty I won't have to go anywhere anyways. I love a...

Got a 4 month backfill promotion including a slight bump in pay. That immediately has me going to my brewery wishlist. But, I've dedicated it to paying off two of the higher interest student loans. Then I log into HBT and some of the brew store sites and have to suppress the urge to reach...

For the 4th of July - I went ahead and built myself a 2 tap pseudo-jockey box for soda. I also made 5 gallons each of cream soda and root beer, force carbing and serving out of kegs. About 2 gallons of each were consumed, and I was planning to take the rest to a camping trip at the end of...

Picked this up last year off of CL, and stashed it away to await a future project. Planned use as a mash tun - I finally picked away at it today. It is a double walled stainless steel drink cooler of some sort. Manufacturer plate identifies the Allen Filer Company, Toledo, OH - but I'm not...

There are two types of brewers who use carboys - those who have broken one, and those who will..... I became one of the former tonight. 5 gallon carboy of local unpasteurized cider - pouring into a 6.5 gallon carboy for primary fermentation. Slip, oops, ah crap. Casualties: The carboy...

Cold crashing a Kölsch and chilling 6 lagers (Schwarzbier, Oktoberfest, Vienna Lager, Honey Brown, Dortmunder Export, Dunkel) before tossing them in the fermentation chamber. As convenient as it is, I'm ready for spring. I also measured the temp of the tap water - down to 36 degrees this...

As the title says - anyone have any experience or recommendations of a SS welder in the Buffalo area? I'm looking to get some fittings welded up. I can also go to the Syracuse area if necessary. Thanks!

We got rid of cable/satellite about 3 years ago now - I've been traveling a whole bunch this year, including a three week stint now where I've got access to cable at the hotel. I used to enjoy the History Channel, Discovery Channel and the like - it's now entirely crappy whiny motorcycle...

Love her forever, but man is she tough on cars..... Daughter of a cop.... learned how to drive like a cop..... I replace brakes a minimum of every 25,000 miles (somehow - I manage to get well north of 50k on mine). She's got a 2 year old car - every panel is either dented or scratched. She...

As the title states - I'll be tacking a Florida vacation onto the end of some work training. I'll have my wife and two kids with me (3 and 1) and am wondering what is not to miss and what to go ahead and skip. We're going to pass on Disney and the other theme parks, the kids are just too...

Some friends of mine have started farming their 6th generation farm in Lockport, NY. They've converted some of the farm land to hop yards, and are having their first harvest this year. They are holding a public Hop Harvest party this Saturday, August 25th. They've already harvested and dried...

I know we all have different things we take on outside of brewing and working to support our brewing. I'd like to share my main one as of late- I've been (very slowly as life gets in the way) working on rebuilding a 1972 Porsche 914 that I bought back in 1998 while still in high school...