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I did a lot wrong with my brown ale and I wondered if anyone has had any experience with wlp007 at a high than normal fermentation temp. First, I commenced cooling and proceeded to drop a piece of rubber off of a clamp I use above my kettle into the cool wort. Then I continued to...

I am going to attempt to post my electrical schematic. I am definitely no electrician, just pulled ideas and schematic from theelectricbrewery. If the image turns up readable, I would appreciate feedback as to whether or not I'm on the right track or what is wrong. I plan on using a cord with...

How about a 1.5 liter starter on a stir plate for a 10.5 gallon batch of 1.052 gravity wort? I am putting two vials of white labs london ale into the starter. It is a robust porter. The package date is 9/27/13. Does this raise any flags for you guys on the forum? I am a bit concerned about...

I just wanted to get some opinions on reusing the yeast I harvested from my porter. Deal is that I dumped it from the bottom of the conical into a a sterilized mason jar on the 11th day after I brewed. Normally I would brew again on Sunday which would be the 14th day after I brewed the porter...

I am using my conical for the first time to ferment a 10 gallon batch. I also have morebeer's yeast harvester. After 3 days of fermentation, I dumped a half gallon of trub. Then I attached my yeast harvester and it immediately filled up with yeasty material. Do you guys think that I didn't...

I just put my stout in the secondary fermenter and then noticed that theres a tiny crack on the bottom corner that I can't even feel with my fingernail. I moved it to my fermenting closet without killing myself. Im planning on kegging it in a couple days. Will it... a. burst all the...

After months of stagnation Im finally starting to see some progress.

Which gaskets are best to get for the proflowdynamics quick disconnects? They have some in their store but I don't know if they're high temperature. If not, where can you get the high temperature ones? http://store.proflowdynamics.com/modules/store/-Couplings-for-Homebrewers-_C12074.cfm

Just before ordering steel to construct this design for a burner wind shield, I came up with an idea that seems dumb but I think it might work. Instead of buying a sheet of 12 ga. stainless which would be kinda costly, what about using a dog bowl. The dog bowl is also stainless but is a little...

This is what I ended up with after polishing kegs. I'm not overly satisfied with the results. We used gator grit light pads and then polishing pads with #2 and 5 compound. Does anyone recommend anything for a final finishing process? Maybe I'm doing something wrong or my kegs weren't that...

Thanks to Bobby I was able to cut perfect circles in my kegs. I was going to use a plasma cutter but I was worried about cutting nice circles, plus its not that practical because most of us don't have spare plasma cutters sitting around. Here are some pictures of the process.

I am fighting through the design of my first all grain system and I have a few topics for discussion. Basically I am going to use 3 keggles a pump, and I plan to recirculate my wort through an immersion coil in the HLT to maintain temperature during mash. Then recirculate my wort through the...

This is what I am thinking about building. Ill build a metal frame holding the mash tun on the left, boil kettle in the middle and a HLT on the right. The HLT will sit lower than the mash tun and boil kettle. I will make an immersion coil for the HLT that I will recirculate my mash through to...