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This may be a dumb question, but who uses a garden hose just for cleaning? My wife is getting pissy at the little messes that are made inside after brewing, and all I do is clean the kettle, mash tun etc in the kitchen. Are they any concerns when using a garden hose to make a star san solution...

So, my last three beers have all been rather bland after 4-5 days in the keg, but after 3ish weeks and beyond, they opened up and tasted as they had, or better, from the fermentation vessel. I've been pitching dry yeast (1 packet) into beers with an OG less than 1.060, and at most, moderately...

I kegged my Maibock style ale after an 11 day primary, and tomorrow will be one week since kegging. Recipe was 5lb pilsner, 5lb Vienna, 2lb Munich. Single hopped with hallertau, 1oz for 60min 2oz for 30. Fermented with BRY97 @64. Mash was 152 degrees for 60min and I batch sparged. It was...

So, I'm sitting at the bar in the Frankemuth Brewery yesterday and I get a text from my wife's cousin: "Is bell's two hearted ale supposed to be this hoppy and bitter or is this stuff just past its shelf life?". I replied and explained that it's an IPA and yes, it is supposed to be hoppy and...

Hello. I've been kegging for a while now and I have a simple setup with one keg, and a single body regulator. Very soon, I plan on purchasing another keg and adding a second low pressure regulator to the body so I can serve at one pressure and carbonate with another; ultimately ending up...

Had the day off, got bored, so I made this to honor my latest brew: I dont really use these for anything, and I'm not entirely happy with it any way, just thought I'd share. A little Incredible Hulk theme with the font, imagine the barley smashing the hops and a little nod to the home of the...

Ok, I've got my first kegged beer in the fridge, and again, I couldn't find this question elsewhere, may be a bit obscure, so... how much do I need to open the co2 tank? The keg is pressurized, so I know the gas is going to the keg, but I've only given the vale on the tank about a half turn...

I'm kegging for the first time soon and I've get everything nailed down except two (maybe even weird) concerns. I searched the forum and beyond and found nothing, so maybe this is a bit on the overly worried side... I've only dealt w/ co2 when I played paintball many moons ago, and that's far...

So, I'm relaxing after brewing tonight, watching "The Postman" on Encore... I don't know why this movie gets such a bad wrap, I rather enjoy it. Maybe I'm just a sucker for post apocalyptic subject matter, but really... Rambo III was on earlier, and I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy that a bit...

Ok, brewing a Dry Stout tonight and according to Beer Smith I hit 90% into the boiler. Three gallon batch, AG 4.5 British 2 Row .50 # Roasted Barley .50 # Flaked Barley .25 # Choclate (.75 oz EKG, S-04 Dry Packet) Mashed @ 1.25 qts/#(ish) @ 154. Mashed w/ 2 gallons of 170 degree...

Ok, so, I've finally decided on kegging and I'll be placing an order with Keg Connection soon for their 1 keg basic kit... I'll get the ball lock keg, 5# tank, dual gauge regulator, gas line, beer line w/ cobra tap, new set of o rings and quick disconnects. I'll be brewing around Thanksgiving...

I was bored at work today and I dreamed up a little Black IPA extract recipe for my next batch: 5.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM) 2.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM) 1.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) 0.50 lb Carafa II (412.0 SRM) 1.00 oz Simcoe [11.90...

So, I've noticed that recently, my tap water is tasting like there's a bit more chlorine in it. So for my next brew (likely an extract batch) I want to try using campden tablets to remove chlorine and chloramines. I've read posts that say campden will help me remove the unwanted substances...

I recently brewed for the first time in about a year and it's time to bottle... now I've got my new house and a second hand me down fridge that's in the basement housing extra food, and of course, I'm dreading the bottling day and thinking it's time to put that 'fridge to use... I've looked at...

I'm getting back into brewing after a year in my new home and I'm going back to extract w/ specialty grains for the time being... also showing a friend how to home brew so, I figured it'll help me get re-acquainted with brewing while being easy for said friend to follow. Doing an American Wheat...

Another silly questions as I try not to think about my wedding on Sunday... I use a 5 gallon round "Victory" cooler as my mashtun with a small length of copper attached to a SS braid and I drain the wort using a vinyl tube. I haven't replaced any of these parts since I've starting using it...

Hi, I'm in the process of moving my operation to the basement and I'm getting closer to purchsing a natural gas burner, but the burners I have found don't appear to have any sort of regulator. For those of you that use such burners, how do you control intensity of the flame? I don't want to...

So I was thinking about a little bottling experiment for no apparent reason tonight... Has anyone bottled right from the primary? I was thinking about adding my priming sugar to the full carboy, attaching a bottling wand and using the autosiphon to bottle directly from the carboy. I know...

I brewed this weekend after a long hiatus (been busy w/ my new home) and since my last batch of ESB was less than stellar after it was bottled, I went hog wild and double cleaned and sanitized every thing except my bottling gear in preparation of my return to brewing. I tried a bottle of the...

I am fresh off of the Michigan Brewer's Guild Summer Beer Festival and I helped pour beer for a local brewery and I really want to start kegging, but now I have a few questions, and I couldn't exactly find the answers I am looking for... I would probably want to let the beer condition in the...