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My go to pear tree (some 500 miles away) was devoid of pears this year due to a late freeze. A co-worker found a very old pear tree in the Hill part of St Louis. He and I picked 8 5 gallon buckets of pears, giving each of us 5-6 gallons of clear juice. The pears were small round, the very ripe...

I was given a couple carboys that at one time was a fruit fly hotel. Is there an easy way to clean the pupae off the sides?

When ambient is above the desired temperature, or below, controlling fermenter temperature is fairly easy. The new heating/cooling coil from Brewhemoth is keeping my ales at the correct temperature. This morning my shop was 41 degrees, my ale at 68, this afternoon, it rose in the 70's and my ale...

Here it is in action..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fnMtccaU2A&list=UUbJ4Ace9RBNFId-0dZuxTkg Enjoy!

Yep we are headed again this year, going to show off some great new ideas for 2014, a RIMS system, heat and cool fermentation......all sorts of new ideas.

Was reading the newest IPA book yesterday and in a couple of the recipes it called for a double mash. First mash at 1.3 quarts per pound, second mash at 1.7 quarts per pound with strike and mash temps given. Am I overthinking this? Is this just batch sparging?

I have plenty of DI water. To make Burton water (preferrably the shallow well version) how much of what do I need to add per gallon? (grams of gypsum, calcium chloride, whatever) Bought the "water" book, maybe I'm not remembering my chemistry well enough (its been over 30 years), but any help...

Yep, we will be in Philly this June. Come meet our welder, look the Brewhemoth over, we are planning on hooking up a chiller and a CO2 tank to show what it can do. Hope to see you there!

The BOS prize at Hoppy Halloween is a Brewhemoth Conical Fermenter shipped to the winners door.

Anyone know a source of malted sorghum?

I've been asked to brew some beer for "Africa Night" at my church. Any ideas as to what this would be? I'm assuming that it should be based on sorghum, a gruit style? Any ideas?

Will the addition of Isenglass hurt the vitality of yeast harvested?

Put together a beer engine, total cost, about $50.00! Get almost a half pint on each pull, tho I need a bigger handle to make pumping easier.

They are swarming around my taps. Any good methods of getting rid of them? Seems every time I pour a pint, I get one out of the tap.