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I haven't brewed in forever and most of my equipment is sitting around collecting dust. For sale is my center inlet stainless steel head 115v chugger pump. Comes with a 3 piece ball valve and camlock QD fittings from brew hardware that are pictured. The pump has less than five batches through...

I have been trying to find an answer to this question all over the net without any luck... I just received an assignment to incirlik AB, Turkey and was wondering if I can legally brew in the country. I checked the a APO restrictions and saw no restrictions for ingredients like you would find...

Looking at putting in for orders to Turkey and to my knowledge (have been there before) there is no LHBS. Given the expensive nature of APO shipping, I have found some shops in NY (where the AE APO ships out of) with decent prices on sacks of grain. Having never purchased a 50# sack before...

I really want to try growing my own hops, but I'm moving (don't know where yet... military) in January. So, I asked my mother who is a certified Master Gardner if she would like to grow them and mail me the dried hops. Rhizomes should be on their way shortly! 2 Cascade, 2 Willamette, and 2...

Was wondering if anyone has seen this http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/Beer-Gadgets/Pond-Pump-Cooler setup for chilling and has any input on it's effectiveness. I currently have a corny that is not suitable for beer anymore :( and room in my keezer which is two feet from where I ferment. I'm...

Yep, the wife got a job and can no longer rotate frozen water bottles into the water bath every 2-3 hours... I'm going to try the towel/fan method and tossing in frozen bottles when we can, any suggestions to keep things stable? My garage (where the beer lives) hits about 80 degrees in the...

Hey all, This is my first official my beer is ruined thread. I've been brewing for just short of a year and have brewed about 12 AG and three extract batches. I purchased two kegs off of craigslist a few months back from a disgruntled ex-wife that kept them outside. They were dirty and had...

So I got my first stuck sparge today doing cream of three crops. After several attempts at getting it to flow failed, I decided to dump the contents of the tun into a pot to have a look. As soon as the tun was cleaned, I saw that my SS braid was completely crushed. Luckily enough, i had an...

Was just checking the gravity on a DFH 60 minute IPA that I made last weekend and my turkey baster decided it wanted to separate with the tube portion going into the carboy. Any creative thoughts at retrieving it? I'm going to dry hop starting on Monday for a week then going to bottle so I...

Found these on craigslist today, The add says they have 3 gallons and 5 gallons when they actually have 5 gallons and 6 gallons for $15 each. I bought the last 3 gallon ones they had. I picked up 5 Carboys for $65 today, not bad :) http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/tls/2265954320.html

I ordered a dual ball lock setup last night from kegconnection.com and I realized this morning that it comes with only five foot lines. After reading a bunch of HBT and playing with some calculators I figured it would be best if I had them adjust my order for 10' lines (which their awesome...

Or my hydrometer sucks... getting some distilled water today to calibrate it, hopefully it's way off. I would greatly appreciate some constructive criticism/troubleshooting. Here is the recipe 9# 2-row 1# crystal 80 .75# munich Equipment: 15 gallon brew kettle 10 gallon...

This may be a dumb question, but my 15 gallon pot came in today and I did a dry run with 7 gallons of water. I finished my hour boil and cooled as if I was actually brewing and had 5 gallons And a little over a quart left (5 cups to be exact). While doing the same test with my 30 at Turkey...

Beer is the obvious answer... Here's the recipe for Dave's "Porter" 8# Pale LME 1# Choclate .5 # Black Patent .5 # Crystal 80 1 oz Nugget 15% @ 60 1 oz Willamette 5.3 @ 15 .5 oz Willamette 5.3 @ 5 Forgot my irish moss :( Here's the story, Beer smith says my OG should...

Doing my first full boil tomorrow. Is there any difference in steeping your grains?

I'm approaching day 14 on my hef that I made and took a SG reading to check against in a couple of days. After taking my sample of course I had to taste it! To my surprise this has been the best tasting sample I've ever pulled out of a carboy. I was so excited I tossed the rest of the test...

First time doing all grain and first time straying from a recipe... How does this look? BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: oatmeal stout Brewer: Matt Asst Brewer: Style: Oatmeal Stout TYPE: All Grain Taste: (0.0) Recipe Specifications...

Hi all, I'm really leaning towards going all grain soon... I'm in the process of acquiring the stuff for my 10gal MLT now and received a 30qt turkey fryer for christmas (fermcap-S is on the way). I started brewing about a month ago and I'm prepping for my fourth batch in about two weeks (not...

I did a search, but couldn't find anything definite... I plan on bottling my amber ale next weekend and then making a batch of Edwort's Apfelwine in the vacated carboy. I read his recipe and it said ferment at room temperature. I understand wine yeast has a much wider range than typical ale...

Doing my first hef and I'm curious as to how long everyone thinks I should leave it... I normally do 3-4 weeks so the yeasties can clean up and what not, but should I curtail the fermentation as some of the desired flavors come from by products?