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I made a lambic style brew last April, using a traditional recipe of 8lbs Pils, 4lbs unmalted wheat and an ounce of aged Willamette hops, and did a turbid mash. Fermented in a glass carboy with ECY Bug Farm, and left it on the yeast cake after it finished for the last 10 months. I've been a good...

I brew in a brew shed, so this doesn't really affect me, but I see a lot of photos of people brewing out on a deck or in their driveway on HBT. How do you keep from skunking your beer if you're brewing out in the blazing sun? If someone posts a picture on HBT of a carboy anywhere near a...

Here's my stainless steel DIY hop stopper that I made for $10. It started it's life as a jumbo tea ball from Amazon.com. I took a phillips screwdriver and forced a hole in the side of the SS screen and stretched it out until it was large enough to fit over my SS pickup tube. I also cut about...

So, I've been using a wallpaper tray for about a year now to soak my wine thief, racking canes, autosiphon, airlocks, etc in to sanitize them. I would leave everything soaking in the tray so if I needed a wine thief to grab a gravity sample, everything would be sanitized and ready to go. It was...

I brewed something similar to Fullers London Brown Porter a while ago and really love the taste of it. Today I was reading the BJCP descriptions of Brown Porters and noticed that historically they may have used Brett: From BJCP 12A: "Comments: Differs from a robust porter in that it usually...

I'm planning to build a DIY counterflow chiller and was pricing things out at Home Depot on the way home from work. My first thought was using 3/8" copper tubing for the inner, and a 1/2" copper outer shell, but copper is pretty pricey so I looked around and saw the PEX pipe. For $7.85 for 25'...

After tons of help and ideas from P-J, Ischiavo, Kal’s website, and all of the other builds shared on this site, my build is underway! To start, here’s the diagram I’m using for the wiring. It started as a P-J diagram but I've significantly modified it to add in 2 contactors...

Anyone know the difference between Caramel Pils (SRM 8) http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/product/0101488/caramel-pils and Cara-pils (SRM 2) http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/product/0101442/briess-2-row-carapils I'm guessing different maltsters and that the Caramel Pils is kilned a bit...

What's the best way to attach 10 gauge wire to this switch? Solder the wire directly to the posts, or try to find some 10g ring terminals with the small rings and try to find the tiny screws to screw the ring to the posts? Or something else? There's 9 posts on this thing I'll have to wire to...

Below is a pic of my breaker box - obviously there is not room for adding another breaker. Is there some way to connect a spa panel directly to this breaker panel? In a previous thread I talked about running an extension cable from the laundry room (dryer outlet) to my brew shed. I realized...

I've been brewing AG for the last year using propane out in my brew shed, which is located in the back of my yard about 50 ft from the house. I'm wanting to convert to electric, but I don't want to run 240 permanently out to the shed since we may move in the next year or less. My electric source...

I'm still brewing with propane out in my brew shed, but have visions of converting to electric and have been researching all the different ways to set up a system. I have really only seen 2 options for temp controlling a mash in a MLT, either a PID controlled RIMS or HERMs system. I was...

Here's the story - I recently brewed Jamil's Oatmeal Stout (OG in the mid 1.05's) and used WLP002 to ferment it (68 degrees - hit it with 60 seconds of O2, etc). The target FG was around 1.017, but the washed WLP002 (1st Gen) that I used either got lazy or maybe the oats in it and a warmer mash...