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Hello - My friend and I brewed all-grain at his house, but he's in the process of moving and we are storing our brew equipment for the next couple months. I am looking to sell the remaining base grain we have as a package to someone (prefer not to split sell to several people). All...

I want to harvest the yeast from my next batch into 3-4 mason jars to use for upcoming batches. I've successfully accomplished this using pre-boiled and cooled water to loosen the yeast cake from the bottom of the carboy. However, I wanted to know if you can simply add a gallon of bottled...

12# American Two-Row 1# Crystal 60L 0.5# Debittered Black Malt 0.5# Cara-Pils 0.25# Chocolate Malt Mash for 60 minutes at 149. Boil for 60 minutes. Hop Additions: FWH - 1.0 oz Apollo (18.6% AA) 20 Min - 0.5 oz Centennial (9.2% AA) 10 Min - 0.5 oz Centennial (9.2% AA) 10 Min - 0.5 oz Citra...

I'm looking to make an American Wheat beer for this Spring with a good hop presence but not a ton of bitterness, so I thought about doing this recipe without any bittering hops. This is what I put together, ends up being ~1.045 OG and 27 IBU: 4 Lbs Wheat Malt 4 Lbs 2-Row 15 min - 1 oz...

Hello all, I brewed on Friday at my buddies place and have the beer fermenting in his basement (~62 degrees). Went over there today to check on it and there was a half inch layer of foam as though it was nearing the end of fermentation after the krausen had died down. I took a hydrometer...

I brewed yesterday and had an issue with my kitchen scale not reading properly. I can re-calibrate this, but I need a 2000g and 5000g weight, which are not included. I'm in Southern NJ (outside Philly), and would prefer to borrow these if anyone local has them. Or I would buy if the...

Does anyone know if you can use the Digital Ranco Temperature Controller to set a mini-fridge to freezing temperatures?

Me and a buddy brew together and combined our two immersion wort chillers with more tubing, such that the water line goes through the first chiller submerged in an ice bucket, and the second chiller is in the wort. This has worked very well, and we sometimes shake the chillers around to allow...

I just got a temp controlled mini-fridge setup and began looking for good lager recipes. Through my search I noticed a few things: there were very few that used 2-row as base malt, and there were very few hoppy lagers. I started thinking about it, and I really can't think of any...

I recently acquired a free mini-fridge and bought a temperature controller so I can ferment both ales and lagers at a constant temperature. However I found that my 6.5 gallon carboy doesn't fit in there with the airlock. The freezer section is about an inch or two above the lip of my carboy...

I'm a new AG brewer and with the addition of a temperature controller I'll be ready to lager. Looking to brew a winter time beer and thought a dunkel with a little something extra might be nice. What do you think of a Christmas spice addition (Cinnamon, Ginger, Orange Zest) to this style...

I'll probably end up getting a roller mill eventually, but I would like to try out a cheap one for the next couple batches. I live in South Jersey - anyone have an old mill collecting dust that I could purchase?

I need 3 or 4 stainless steel 7/8" washers to fit my 1/2" brass nipple. Cannot find these anywhere and I would really like to get them sooner rather than later. If anyone has these in the NJ/Philly area, please let me know!

I bought a 48 quart Coleman cooler with a drain plug for use as a mash tun. I've been to Home Depot/Lowes/Ace probably 7x so far and I'm still having issues with parts. First off, I originally bought a 3/8" brass nipple, ball valve and male/female barbs to use with another cooler, but found...

I'm in the process of gathering equipment to go all-grain and I have a few questions :mug: I found a large cooler in my shed, but no drain plug unfortunately. I have also done a little research on this forum and found the design and components for a leak free mash tun. I purchased all...

I just made a Rye IPA with harvested Pacman yeast, which has an optimal temperature range from 60-72 degrees F. Since it's summer, I decided to use a swamp cooler to stay within this range. Thing is, I brew at my friend's house since I still live with my parents, so I'm not able to monitor...

I'm getting ready to brew a partial mash Rye IPA with about 6 lbs of grain and 6 lbs of bulk LME from Norther Brewer. I've always added extract for the full 60 minute boil, but I want to try the late extract addition method because I've noticed that 'twang' in my extract beers and I want to...

In lieu of using a saved yeast cake (US-05) on my next batch, I decided to try harvesting Pacman yeast from two bombers - 1 Shakespeare Stout and 1 Northwestern Ale. I don't have any fancy equipment, so I decided to use a 1-liter plastic bottle that was previously used for seltzer water...

I attempted to harvest yeast from the bottom of my carboy for the first time yesterday, however I may have made a very stupid mistake. After I racked the beer to a secondary, I used pre-boiled water to slosh around and loosen up the yeast cake. However, I did not let this water cool down to...

I brewed an extract recipe of my own creation, which included about 10 oz of crystal 40 as the steeping grain (it was a 2.5 gallon half batch). I steeped this in a separate pot with less than a gallon of water but I remembered that I didn't have my strainer with me. I had to get creative and...