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I guess I am stupid,I bought a pocket pro plus from hach.I have downloaded the pdf file for instructions and find I cannot calibrate the unit or reliabley find all the functions and navigate through them.the interface seams very clunky to me. can some oine please explain to me how to work this...

I have a question about using 100% ro water.I have read palmers water book and have a basic grasp of the concepts. I have been told by a lot of brewers that they don't bother to add any treatment to their sparge water,they just use 100% ro. My question is why wouldn't you want to make your...

A local micro brewery held a pro-am home brew contest near me.I entered it naturally,an amber ale and moose drool clone I make all the time. Some how a production company got wind of the contest and sent an e-mail to our local clubs mailing list asking for volunteers to do a documentary on...

I recently brewed a hefe using wlp300 for the first time,2liter starter,fermented at 71 degrees trying to get some banana flavor and aroma. It finished at 1.010 and I kegged it after 8 days.I get little to no banana or clove, just fairly neutral flavor but the sulfur odor is bad.I have tried...

just got through putting it together,only thing left is to dial in the burners and do a hot water run to check the tower of power gas fired rims system.

...so I brewed an extract batch of ahs anniversary wit for a quickie brew day. after being in the keg for 2 weeks.it's pouring quite clear.The beer is really tasty ,just not cloudy. I used wlp 400 for the yeast,3 week primary at 70 degrees.I used no whirlfloc or fining agents. why is my wit...

is this yeast a slow worker? I brewed dubbel 9 days ago,I added my sugar additions 3 days into fermentation.I still have fermentation activity as of tonight.Is this normal for this yeast? The only other strain I have used that took this long was wlp 400 which took 2 weeks to finish.

...sure looks interesting

...for those that care,firestone walker is hosting a beerfest.It looks like it's going to have a lot of great brews. http://www.atascaderonews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=4742&page=72 http://www.firestonebeer.com/mingle/fw-invitational-beer-fest.php If you're interested in...

I will be brewing a black IPA.The recipe calls for 1 ounce of summit at 60 min and the late edition hops will be chinook,centenial and cascade. I don't have any summit hops. On hand for relatively high alpha acid hops,I have magnum,warrior,columbus,amarillo,simco,citra and zythos.which one...

I have a recipe calling for 2 ounces of 5.4 AA hops at flame out.My problem is I can only find the required hops in 2.4 AA.does it matter at flame out or Should I adjust the quantity for the AA difference like the bittering addition?

Looks like santa is getting me a pump for xmas,My question is which one is better, the march 809 or the 815?

You gotta love the folks at northern brewer!They sure go out of their way to humor the customer. I recently placed an order for supplies and asked them to draw me an elephant riding a unicycle on the box.I got my order and was pleasantly surprised that they drew it for me. I know some...

How high or low should you drill the hole to install a 1/2 weldless valve? any rule of thumb? or just what ever floats your boat?

the faucets on my tower keep getting stuck if they aren't used for a couple days. Am I the only one who has that happen? any way to keep it from happening short pouring a few beers each day?

anyone ever try to make hop tea? I have seen brewers who do this to judge different varieties of hops.I was wondering how effective it was.

carb my beer in a keg naturally? I figure as long as my keg will be sitting outside of the fridge I might as well prime it and let it condition naturally.

Jamil's blonde ale or cream ale recipe that they can post? I would like to try my hand brewing them.

yep sorry to post it but I felt a need to :p did ed's haus ale recipe today,every thing went fairly good.I was 2 degrees high after the initial mash in but after 10 minutes of mixing it came down to 152 degrees and I started the mash.I only lost 1 degree over the hour in my cooler. I did...

I brewed a wit 10 days ago and used wlp400 for the first time.I am on day 9 of active fermentation of this brew.I am fermenting it at 72 degrees (going for the funk factor). Is this normal for this yeast?