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Prepared my yeast starter today as I always do. Pitched my yeast in and about 20 minutes later said to myself, "what is that floating at the top?" Another hour went by and I decided to fish it out. Low and behold somehow a freaking pincher bug got in my starter and decided to drown itself...

Hi, I have a bucket of food safe glycol in a chest freezer with a pump that pumps the glycol through vinyl tubing and then into a coil system for my fermenter if it gets to warm. I would like to insulate the outside of the vinyl tubing once it leaves the chest freezer so it keeps the cold...

I've got a Brewhemoth fermenter and love it! I just went to go look at a part and when I went to the website it says they've shut their doors. Well SH%T! Now if we need something for the fermenter like a new lid with the coils on it we're screwed. All that money spent on my wonderful...

I use drop in snake kegs but am wondering if there is any advantage to using threaded?

I moved my kegerator yesterday to a little studio off of my house that I've been remodeling. The studio is very old and the floors are uneven. I put my kegs in the kegerator yesterday in the studio and turned it on. Roughly 24 hours later I popped back into the studio and noticed that the...

I have a Brewhemoth Fermenter and last night I tried to filter and keg a new beer recipe with blackberry puree in it. What a disaster. After about 1.5 hours of cleaning and sanitizing I tried to filter using a 5 micron. I tried three times and each time I'd get 20 seconds into filtering and...

I'm carbonating in a pressurizable conical for the first time. I just poured in the priming sugar today. Assuming I don't have to mix it since it's one single vessel?

I have a Belgian Dubbel I'll be carbonating this weekend which has been fermenting for 5 weeks. Any issue with using priming sugar with yeast that old? Will it all be dead by now?

Hi, I'm relatively new to using Sanke kegs and so far am having no luck with them carbonating while sitting on CO2. I have the kegerator around 43 degrees and the CO2 set at 14 PSI to carb. I don't have a leak as this has been on CO2 for three weeks now with the CO2 in the bottle holding...

I use sanke kegs and usually just pressurize them with CO2 once I hook them up to my kegerator. However I recently got a pressurizable fermenter. My question is, if I pressurize the the fermenter can I fill the keg through the dip tube if I have a adjustable pressure valve on the coupler to...

I've always used Mr. Malty's yeast calculator for my yeast starters. However, yesterday I started questioning if I've been using it right this whole time. I've always entered my yeast starter OG into the OG field i.e. 1.035. Is this right or am I supposed to enter the OG of the actual beer...

I filtered out of my conical for the first time yesterday and it went really well. I pushed the beer out using CO2 and noticed that as the beer left the filter there were a good deal of bubbles in the hose. Is this normal? I'm guessing since I was pushing it with CO2 the bubbles weren't...

So my fermentation is all done in my conical and I've cold crashed to the best of my ability for a week. I used Wyeast's German Ale Yeast 1007 for the first time and this stuff just does not drop out of suspension. Today I opened up one of the valves a bit on the conical and it's literally all...

I am using a pressurized fermenter currently to carbonate a hefe. My question/concern is, when I go to bottle, since the beer will be carbonated, am I going to have a hard time filling the bottles without lots of overflow due to foam?

I am currently trying to cold crash 20 gallons of Hefeweizen using my new Brewhemoth fermenter. This is the first time I've used it and I'm having a hard time cold crashing it. I currently have a pump sitting in 34 degree water with the tubes running from my chest freezer through the immersion...

Will a three micron filter still leave enough yeast to bottle condition using corn sugar?

So I just made my yeast starter (didn't pitch the yeast) and I don't have the time to chill it quickly. I'm going to leave it out to cool overnight on the counter and pitch my yeast in the morning. Any issues with this?

Hello, Which pump are you using in your Brewhemoth for the immersion cooler lid? Cheers!

When transferring beer from the Brewhemoth to a Keg, which hose barb do you use? I am buying one right now but don't know if I should get the 1/4" or 1/2" barb.

So I recently got asked this question in an interview and am wondering what the hell the right answer is. What are your thoughts? You and another person are sitting at a table with a full glass of water between you. The other person drinks 50% of the water and then you drink 50% of what's...