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I've got a 20 gallon stainless steel boil kettle which I installed a 5500w element into. The bottom of it looks to be starting to pit. There a little rust spots forming about the size of a pen head in various spots - but it's only on the bottom of the brew kettle. I've tried everything to get...

I was thumbing through it yesterday, and I finally found a little know beer flaw that I saw in a few of my beers - HORSERADISH flavors. Well, I found a mention of this in the book, and like a dummy, forgot to mark the page. I've looked through the book for the last hour, and can't find the...

I've tried everything to get the wife to drink some of my home brew - heck, trying to get her to try beer in general, and have FAILED miserably. I've tried getting her to try everything from a chocolate orange IPA to Sameul Smith's Strawberrry Brew (which to me tastes like Strawberry koolaid) to...

So I am trying to improve my beers by watching the fermentations like a hawk, and wanted to know if anyone saw any issues with my sampling methods. I ferment in glass carboys. I have one of those turkey baster things to draw a sample. Before inserting into the carboys, I have a bucket of...

So I guess over attenuation is better than it's counter part, but the FG on this brew was supposed to be 1.011. After 4 days using US-05 and a targeted mash temp of 153, it went from a SG of 1.041 to 1.006? Now, is not having the mash temp at 153 supposed to promote the beta enzymes to allow...

I was interested in brewing a Strawberry Saison. From what I've read about brewing with fruit - and especially strawberries - is that the fruit is primarily composed of fermentable sugars (fructose) - and so large quantities of fruit impart little to no flavor in the final product. Well...

I'm looking to get a new sparge arm - the thing that rains down hot water when fly sparging over the grain bed in the mash tun. I tried the little spinning thing, and never really like it, so I want to try one like the guys on the show brew dogs have. It looks like it's just a dome that has...

Hey guys. I've been teaching myself to weld, and figured a good project to start on might to be an aluminum hop basket. I'd prefer to use aluminum as opposed to stainless because there's a pretty good cost savings for when it comes to aluminum mesh vs stainless steel mesh. I know a lot of...

I bought a new chugger pump and have put one brew cycle through it so far. I can say that although it looks identical to the March 809 pump, the metal pump drive housing is far superior to the March 809's plastic housing. I went through 2 housing on the March 809. One cracked before I wised...

No doubt the creators of rheinheitsgebot would turn over in there graves...but I've had a lot of great craft brews lately that have had some really off the wall ingredients. I tried one recently that had black tea in it that was a porter that was really good. The best IPA I've had was an...

Hi Guys... Looking for recommendations on what company to use for a water analysis of my well. I'm wondering if some off flavors might be coming from my well water. So who's fast and cheap as far as water analysis goes? TIA :)

:ban: I'm looking to create some unique flavors in the brews I produce, and discover new combinations of grains and yeast to brew with. Obviously, 5g batches for this purpose are out. I went over to the homebrew store yesterday and got about 20 different specialty grains and a 55# sack of...

I'm looking for a good tutorial that's maybe less than an hour that I can watch or read. I'm just looking for the basics of dealing with electricity. Like, what happens if I plug this computer fan into a 50amp circuit? Will it just pull the 40 watts it requires, or will 50 amps of power...

Ok...so first off, I'm just trying to do a simple PID controller box that will operate a fan for my smoker....nothing too fancy. Had a few questions. I'm using the Auber PID and the K Thermocouple that was recommended by the electric brewery. 1) The thermocouple has 3 connections. I'm...

I was looking for some advice on replacing a March 809. To be completely honest, I was never happy with the fact that you had to always prime it. Not to mention I went through 2 pump housing because of the crappy plastic construction. I'd like to stay under $200 if I could. Something...

Been a while since I brewed. Time to do a pale ale methinks. I have some base grains I need to use (marris otter)...also have pilsner...so can use either one. Also have US05 that i should probably use soon. Been sitting around for probably 6 months. I'm looking for your best pale ale recipe...

Hey guys! Got a video update on my hop garden if anyone's interested: I was curious. Should I trim back the other shoots coming out of the ground and focus on culturing 1 main vine, or should I allow multiple vines stemming from a single rhizome? What are the advantages and...

So I made a pretty pimpified (if I do say so myself, and I do say so myself) hop trellis that extends out over my 2 6' x 6' raised beds. The design was pretty simple. All 4"x4" posts. The main support is 16' tall, with a 10' cross member at it's peak. Then it's got 2 diagonal 6' beams at...

Just wanted to say how impressed I was with Ray's operation over at Halifax Hops. I stumbled across his thread in here saying he still had a few varieties so I pm'd him and said if he would send me some of his biggest honkin hops, I'd buy a few rhizomes from him and ended up picking a few...

I was reading the information in the general overview of an electric brew build by coderage (very nice article by the way), and had a quick question. I don't understand why if you have a 5500w element that is made for 240v, that if you put that on a 120v line, why the maximum wattage you can...