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Hi all, Haven't posted in a while, but I usually find most of my answers in the archives. I did have a question about a dry stout I have made recently. I don't use it very often, but I do have a nitro beer gas setup and would normally use it with the stout. However, I plan on sharing several...

So I have been carbing homemade seltzer at about 25-30psi in a corny keg that sits in my kegerator. It has been working pretty well for almost a year now. Lately we have found our seltzer to be a bit harsh on our stomachs. I know the carbonic acid produced will lower the pH but didn't know...

With the help of some fine folks here I got my seltzer tap going. Good thing I did some reading because I was planning on running my seltzer through my chrome plated Perlicks. I didn't realize that the chrome had been wearing off over the years and I would had been leaching brass in my...

This is strange. My old fridge kegerator was getting some mold spots on it from sitting in the extra humid garage so I wiped the outside down with a 50% bleach solution and cleaned it up nice. It was fine for a few days and then I go into the garage today and the front of the door is all...

I decided to move my CO2 and beergas tanks outside of my fridge to make more room for kegs. I needed some advice on sizing. After reviewing a lot of posts here, I decided to go with simply drilling holes slighter larger than my gas lines, installing rubber grommets and running the lines...

I was at The Atlantic Brewery in Maine tonight and noticed that they only used Nottingham yeast for all their beers from summer blondes to porters to braggots. I confirmed this with one of the staff at the bar. I found this interesting in that they don't match specific styles with the...

I'm a bit excited about my first nitro pour at home. I read a bunch of posts on how best to carb up with nitro. Wonder if this sounds good to you? I have a mild ale that I want to try and mimic a cask conditioned feel. I set it on the regular CO2 at 5 psi for 36 hours, then purged and hooked...

I think I've read every thread here on nitro taps. Surprisingly there is not that much info to be found using them. I thought there would be a lot more. So it's about $300 by the time you buy the faucet, shank, regulator, tank (filled) and all the line and fittings. Of course I had to go all...

I've got this bag of pilsner malt sitting here and have been making good use of it. We decided on a Helles, but I wanted a heavier mouthfeel and more grainy/malt flavor. I mashed at 154F and I still may try mashing at 158F in the future. I've made this twice and it is a drinker. There's some...

Yes touchy taps. Maybe I should say overly sensitive taps? Whatever. I have 2 perlick 525 taps with SS shanks. The last month or so they have become very touchy, like if you lightly hit or "tap the tap":drunk: it starts pouring beer or at least spurting some out. Lately I'm afraid I'll go...

May be a silly question but ... This is my second year with my hops plants. I have a lot of bines, looking healthy. I am noticing that the growth is slowing when I have multiple bines trained to climb the same string of rope. Do the bines prefer to climb a given piece of rope individually...

I have a 3/8 inch keyless chuck Dewalt drill that I hook up to my Barley crusher. The shaft on the BC had a very small slot cut into it to grab onto. Well my chuck is just chewing up that shaft, and I keep trying to get it to grab on properly but every time it loses grip it just sheers it more...

Ingredients Grains 6 lbs Maris Otter 82.7% 8 oz Brown malt 7% 8 oz Victory malt 7% 4 oz Pale chocolate malt 3.3% Hops 1 oz Fuggles @ 60 min AA 4.3% Other .5 tab Whirlfloc at 10 min Beer Profile Est Original Gravity: 1.038 SG Measured Original Gravity: 1.038 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.012...

I'm just dumbfounded! I entered 3 beers (a Helles, Brown and a Mild) in a local homebrew competition just to see what happens. I wasn't able to go to the competition so I just saw the online results. My British Mild (11A) won first place in the English Ale category. I don't know what the...

I may have the beginnings of my first brew infection. Got a mild ale fermenting in primary. OG was 1.038. Used Windsor dry yeast accidently got too cool as the fermenter went down to 59-60F. Fermentation seemed to stall. After one week the FG was only 1.022 Raised the temp to 64F...

So I have entered 3 beers in my first BJCP homebrew competition. While the deadline for entries and edits have passed, I have another week before I need to drop off the beer itself. Now, here is the question: I filled out all the requested information in my regisitration but did not...

I have 2 firsts coming up. One first is I have entered my first brew competition. All entries must be submitted by 2/28 (2 bottles per entry). The other first is one of my entries is a Helles and it is my first attempt at a lager of any kind. My other 2 entries are a mild and a brown...

I think I'm going to be disappointed, but I thought I'd check and ask. I just brewed a Munich Helles, which I've never tasted before. While I'm waiting for it to ferment out I went to the store and bought a few Spaten Premium Lagers because I read that they are an example of a Helles...

I have posted on a few other threads the fact that I'm having some kegerator issues. So not to repeat the past, I'll just say that my kegerator in the garage is dealing with very cold temps. The garage has been in the 20's causing the inside of the fridge to also go below freezing. In fact ...

Well I just finished taking a big step in buying in bulk. I do hope this pans out to be worth it because I just spent a lot in ingredients. I think I'm typing this because I have a bit of buyers remorse and could use some assurance. I tend to brew pretty neutral beers. I don't like anything...