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First off, been a long time since I've posted here. So hello :) So I've been building a keezer for the past month or more now. My plan is for it to be a coffin keezer. I bought the freezer used, and it included two 5# CO2 bottles, a regulator, a two-tap chrome tower, a single tap tower and a...

wow... guy had a heck of a setup. http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/for/319991779.html

Just scored an 18 cubic feet refrigerator with freezer for $60 for the garage. Lagering here we come :)

Our first AG brew is ready to be bottled, and the recipe we based it on called for bottling with unfermented wort. So we set aside enough when we brewed it, and it's been sitting in the fridge since brewing day. The question is, how do we do it? Swirl the jars the wort is in, bring to a...

more a product of the mash, or of the boil? Did our first AG this weekend... and our after boil gravity was 1.040. A little low, to me, and according to Beersmith. I'm thinking it was a product of the mash... which, for AG rooks seems logical to me. But we boiled on our stove, and didn't...

This will be our first AG effort, hopefully this weekend. Thoughts? 7 pounds UK 2-row pale malt 2 pounds crystal malt (40L) 1 pound wheat malt .25 pounds flaked barley .06 pounds chocolate malt .25 ounce Fuggles (60 mins) 1.50 ounce East Kent Goldings (30 mins) .25 teaspoon Irish...

Our LHBS is offering a good deal on base malt, but in 55 pound bags. How long will base malt stay good, fresh, viable, whatever... if it's unmilled? Thanks!

Three Oxygen tanks for $99. I know nothing about these tanks at the moment, but can tanks be used for other gasses? In other words, can an O2 tank be used for CO2?

Greetings all... Should I use a blowoff on this IIPA that I'm starting either tonight or tomorrow? Reason I'm asking is because I'm using Pacman yeast. Will do primary fermentation in a 6.5 gallon bucket then rack to a 5 gal BB in a week or two. Recipe is as follows : 2 pounds extra...

So Trace had a bad day (got rear ended, literally, about 1,000 yards from her office by some moron woman in a mini-van who then ARGUED with the cop about him ticketing her). And I haven't had the best of nights, though I did get to spend some time with my kids (at my ex's however, which sucks)...

Anyone have thoughts on this? http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2246927&cp=2277846.2285617&pg=4&parentPage=family&searchId=2285617 I've got a GC to Dicks and am looking at coolers to convert. I'd looked at the 58-quart Ultimate Xtreme but then saw the Ice...

This will be dropped on an Irish Ale yeast cake. Brew Type: Extract Style: Imperial IPA Batch Size: 5.00 gal 7 pounds Light Dry Extract 1 pound Wheat Dry Extract .5 pound 80L Caramel/Crystal Malt Summit 1 ounce (60 mins) Chinook 1 ounce (30 mins) Northern Brewer 1 ounce (15 mins)...

OK ... here's my dilemma. Brewing inventory 1 7 gal fermenting bucket 1 6.5 gal Better Bottle 1 bottling bucket We're planning to brew a porter this weekend, and when that's racked I want to drop an IPA on the yeast cake. Would I be better off putting the porter in the fermenting...

LOL... since we're talking spirits and liqueurs, I figured I'd brag about my cherry "vodka." I put vodka in quotes because it's not really vodka, but infused grain neutral spirits. A recipe you say? Hmmm.. not as easy as the limoncello recipe, because I was walked through the process by a...

For my birthday, Shimms bought me : 1) this really cool three-picture frame with pic of each of my kids in it. 2) A "reporters notebook" Moleskine (http://www.moleskine.com/eng/default.htm). It will be used as our "Brew notebook," noting what we brew, and the recipe, any issues, etc. Used by...

SWMBO is a HUGE... I mean HUGE fan of New Holland Brewing Company's "Dragon's Milk." Obviously replicating the "barrel aging" would be difficult, but could anyone give me an idea of an extract kit that mimics that brew? Or at least comes close? Thanks!

Trying to figure this out. Sunday we'll be bottling our first brew, a bock made with a True Brew Extract Kit. I want to get a batch of Ed's Apfelwein going, and we also want to start working on a porter. Here's the conundrum. We have a basic kit. A bottling bucket, a primary...

Greetings all! I'm so glad to have found this site! I'm Jay and my SWMBO is Traci, and the best part about her, is she's a beer snob/nut/afficiando. For her birthday this weekend I purchased her (how's that for a twist!?!?) a beginning brewing kit from our local homebrew shop and our...