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Well am getting my going to get my house fumigated this weekend. I was wondering if my yeast bank will be OK with the bags provided by the company. Or should I just take them with me?

Am making a hibiscus mango brew and I want to know what's the best method of sanitizing the hibiscus. I'm using 1 pound of hibiscus for a 5 gallon batch. I don't want to boil the hibiscus cuz I don't want to extract all of its flavor. Can I just use star-san?

Well my brother it has a friend who has some co2 tanks that he wants to get rid of cheap. He looks to have a 20lb and 10lb tank and he'll give them to me for 20 bucks for both but he can't give me any more info as in hydro test or working order. Here is a pic I want hear some opinions.

I found these at my local supermarket . I was wondering how many cans would I need to get some good raspberry flavor? I was thinking of doing 5 gallon sour mash wheat. Maybe add some mango also.

Has anybody ever added yeast nutrient to a batch of kombucha?? I wondering if it would help the fermentation any and will it benefit the health of the scoby? If anybody has any thoughts on the subject i would love to hear them!

Has anybody tried this? I want to start making my own Kombucha and I happened to have a new Mr.Beer kit( it was given to me as a gift) that i don't plan on brewing beer with. But i figure it might work for Kombucha. I would like to hear some opinions before i go ahead and use it.

I found a box of this cereal. In was in the back of my pantry. My wife wanted me to throw it out but i told her to hold off that I want to figure out some kind of beer i could put it in! So I want to ask people hear what they thought. Maybe I could do a stout or a porter???

I just want to share a pic of my drip try after a night of having a few beers. It looks to have some pretty cool lacto growing on it. And this was just over night i went to clean my drip tray in the morning and it looked like this. My wife made me throw it out saying how gross it looked...

Well I've been making dry cured sausage for awhile now. And I've been wanting to try to make salami but didn't have the correct casings for it. But in Dec. i got my hands on some hog middles so decide to give it a shot. Also i want to try to ferment this sausage using yogurt instead of bactoferm...

Does anybody have a link for some vials to freeze yeast in? I just ran out and a buddy of mine is bring me some more yeast. I want to use plastic if i can find them. Since i figure they will be a little cheaper than the glass ones am currently using. If anybody has a ebay or other link i would...

Well i just brewed a Vienna lager this past Sunday ( my first decoction ever and it went great!!). It was a 5.5 gallon batch with a O.G. of 1.049. So i pitched i starter of around 400 billion cells. I made a step starter and for the last setup i added about 1.4 liters of my first runnings which...

As i stated in the title i want to brew up a Gose by using a mini sour mash. But i want to know whats the best way to go about it? And how big does the mini mash have to be to get a good sour taste to it? The reason i ask the size is because i had the idea of making the mini sour mash in a...

quick question well my brother asked me to help him out with this. well it seems that his kegerator is not getting cold enough for his liking i think the coldest it gets is about 43. well we want to know if we install temperature controller like a Johnson controller. will we be able to make it...

Well i recently purchased a kegerator and it came with a dual gauge regulator. but the gauge that tells how much co2 is left in the tank doesn't seem to be working. I've tried it with 3 different co2 tanks and nothing its stuck at the same place. Is there any way to fix it? BTW the other...

Well i purchased a kegerator online but what i want to do is swap out the beer and gas lines. I want to know if anybody would what size gas line am going to need with the regulator. here is a link to the kegerator i bought...

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/app/2945842994.html ive look to get a kegerator i want to know if this a ok deal. of course i will swap out the tower.

I just built a water filter for brewing purposes but i want how long the 2 micron filter i install inside it will last. well more like how many gallons. since the packaging states 3 month filter. but i figure that's for constant use not for my brewing purposes. so how long do you figure i can...

Man i love these jalapeno poppers i must have had around 20 of them!! And washed them down with some homebrew.

Man it sucks i had my plans for my kegerator and here comes swmbo with her plans to remodel the freakin house. then she comes out saying we can do both and in my head am thinking with what money lol... anyway i guess i must post pone it again. damn this sucks :mad:

OK so i have washed yeast before but this is my first time washing this kolsch yeast normally i get layers that i can clearly see. but with this yeast i can't see the distinct layers so i don't know what to dump out. here is a pic Also there seems to be a layer of Krausen on top as if it...