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In the process of building our 2 barrel set up. I would LOVE to be able to have a repeatable flow of NG goto the boil kettle so that my boil off rates are consistent. I'm thinking there must be some sort of NG valve that clicks open or is numbered so that when the kettle gets to boil I can...

I have seen on White Labs that they dont recommend resuing yeast from a 6.5% or higher ABV. The cost or re-growing fresh batches each time gets pretty high. According to my math to do a 2bbl batch I would need 9 smack packs and 5.4 gallons of starter. I looked into buying pitchabe 2bbl...

I just got a hop poster that shows all the hops and their various chemical make up levels. Its very cool. Has anyone ever seen a grain poster that is similar? Would be neat to have a large poster that shows all the different grains their Lovibond, flavor characteristics, typical beers...

This question centers more around fermentors. I would imagine you need a 20 gallon mash tun / boil kettle to make enought beer to fill a keg. 15.5 gallons is the standard volume to fill it up. The question then becomes what do you ferment in? I have seen kegs converted to fermentors...

I remember sonewhere i saw a system that chilled and injected O2 at the same time. But I cannot find it anywhere. I'm looking for an easy and measurable system that can cool the wort as I move it from Boil Kettle to fermentor and oxygenate it at the same time. Buying one or DIY is either...

Let me start by saying I'm a hoppy beer kind of guy. I like lots of aroma and bite to my beers. One of my buddies hosted a running event with about 70 people showing up this weekend. I told him I would brew a beer for the race. I made a 8.2% dopplebock and decided to pitch the 1028...

Last night I made an IIPA. Lots of leaf hops. I have used a hop spider before but I wanted maximum utilization so I did not. I'm using a Blichman 15Gal Pot with false bottom (I use it to mash and to boil) I take the false bottom out after I dump the grains for boiling. Everytime the...

I am looking for an updated Hop book. Especially one that has some fo the newer strains in it like Amarillo and Simcoe. I love the wat designing great beers goes over cohumulone, humulene and myrcene levels in each hop. but its missing alot of the newer variety of hops. I also am moving...

So I have been compiling a bunch of IPA clone recipies. Quite a few of them have you cover the pot after flame out and let sit for 15-30 min. I am goign to assume this is for the benefit or Hops you add at flame out. Anyone else try this? What exactly would this do? When you add Hops at...

I have been asked by a local pub to look into going legit to sell my beer at their brew pub. After doing some homework I know there is alot of red tape to jump thru before I can even consider it. the two biggest hurdles seem to be these.... 1. Register as a brewery with the TBB 2. Have a...

In the latest issue of BYO it recommends to underpitch your tripel. "For 5 gallons of tripel a (2.4-3.3L) yeast starter should do the trick" I have a 2000ml starter beaker. What would be the recommended amount of Water and DME so do a starter with considering I will buy one white labs...

I have just built my first hop garden. I bought Centenial and Cascade. The order came with 2 rhizomes of each. I built Two 4x4 10ft tall T's strung with wire connecting them on the right and left side of the T. I planted my cascade on the right side of the T and the Centenial on the...

Brewed my first lager. I noticed a couple of wierd things. 1. The yeast clumped up into big cottage cheese looking things. Some were on the top and some were on the bottom. I left in primary for 3 weeks at 52 degrees and the big stuff at the top never dropped out. But I checked gravity...

Well I finally cleared out some yard space and have room to plant a few hop plants. Probably 2-3.... I mostly brew IPA's, Pale Ales, stouts Any suggestions on whihc 2 or 3 strains I should grow that will give me the most use? I live in Seattle area.

Question for you guys. I made a Lager and created a 2000ml Starter with light DME. I put it on a stirplate the day before I was brewing. It spun all night long at room temperature. 6 hours before I was going to pitch the yeast I took it off the stir plate and put it in my...

I have a recirc mash direct fire. For about 10 min the pump lost prime and the mash in the false bottom heated up to 161 before I saw it. Re-primed and brought it down to 150 pretty fast. Once it started to recirculate again the temp came back down to 150. Does not smelled burned so...

So I want a 6 tap Keezer. My wife does not want it to take up room in the Living room. So in the spirit of compermise I was thinging about drilling holes in the wall and mounting taps directly to the wall. Use slate tile and a mounted catch tray with tubing for the catch tray going back...

I was plugging my water report from the city into EZ Water Calculator and I had a few questions? Bottom of the report says 1 ppm = 1mg/L = 1000 ug/L My Calcium is 23 mg/L My Magnesium is .94 mg/L My Soduim is 1.9 mg/L My Chloride is 3.6 250mg/L (how do I calcuate that into ppm...

I have a bunch of leftover hops from other batches thruout the year and I want to use them up. I'm thinking an IPA would be a good way to go. I put together a recipie in Beer Smith and was wondering if you have any thoughts as to the Hop additions? 12.5lbs Pale Malt 2 row 1.5 lbs...

I have soaked this in StarSan overnight. I have soaked it in PBW overnight but there is a dull brown film on the bottom of my Blickmann that no matter how much I scrub wont go away. Its probably not the end of the world but the anal retentive person in me wants the bottom just as shiney...