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I bought a Blichmann ProPilot 10 gallon electric HERMS system last summer and have been working my way through many of my favorite recipes since then. Big adjustments on the efficiency calculations, but had that down after two brews. I'm about to brew a Trappist Single recipe on it for the first...

After eight years of brewing, I finally got some Vesuvius action overnight. Guess I shouldn't have rousted it before going to bed. This was the second night for this Trappist Quad, which calls for a temperature ramp during the first week of fermentation. Most of what I brew these days is done at...

As I don't belong to a local homebrew club, I picked up the habit several years back of filling in the club spot for competition entries with HomeBrewTalk Brewers, a habit I believe I picked up from pjj2ba . It has caused some surprise around the Colorado competitions in the past, particularly...

Frozen by XPLSV posted May 12, 2018 at 4:20 PMHaven't had this happen before, but I have two batches of lager that I found frozen this morning. I was using a Johnson A421 controller in conjunction with a chest freezer. I have used both before for a half dozen batches or so, without problems. I...

I recently found four New-Old-Stock Perlick 425SS faucets on Craiglist--still in the box!

I've been brewing for 6 years now...winemaking, too. Recently decided to try some hard cider and mead. I've got a couple batches of cider underway from the fall harvest and have been doing some reading on mead. I have Schramm's book and have been reading a bunch on the web, too. There is...

I'm looking to make my first batch of cider...anyone have any suggestions for a good cider source in Colorado? I'm in the Colorado Springs area but will be bouncing around the state some in the coming weeks.

For years, I have wrestled with using my typical 12" wine thief to take samples out of my primaries through a gangly process of tipping the glass carboy up on its edge and grabbing multiple tiny samples as I worked toward filling my hydrometer test jar, all the while afraid of losing my grip on...

Had a surprise with some Burton Ale yeast starters this past week. Used the White Labs WLP023 Burton Ale Yeast in the new packets. I planned to do two back to back batches, so I made two separate yeast starters. Prepared each exactly the same, using the same techniques I have used for the past 5...

I brewed my first barleywine about two years ago. I kind of looked through a variety of recipes I found on HBT and then kind of threw something together from scratch. I barrel aged it for a bit and enjoyed the outcome. I had submitted it to a couple competitions and comments came back along the...

I found a posting from several years ago but nothing recent... I live and brew at roughly 6900 feet, giving me a boil temperature of 200 F. I have been trying to figure out if adjustments are available in Brewsmith to account for this lower boiling temperature. I did find I could go into the...

Does the orientation of a secondary regulator affect its function? I just got a set of four in for my kegerator and the bank of regulators is a bit longer than I had anticipated. I could move them to another side with some additional tubing...but I was also considering mounting them not to the...

Finished the initial stages of my kegerator last week and was able to put the first keg on tap. I was using 1/4 inch Bev Seal Ultra, so I went long on the beer line knowing that I could have some foam issues. Foam issues I did have...even with 26 feet of line on my keg of Sierra Nevada Pale...

Greetings, I retired from the US Army four years ago and have made Colorado Springs my home. Did a few batches of wine about 25 years ago, but never got to the beer, which is primarily what I drink. Found this forum a couple months ago while doing some kegerator build research and it has...