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Curious if anyone has brewed with some grain that is 5 or more years old? Currently getting back into brewing after a 3-4 year break. Grain smells great still and all of it is uncrushed. I also have a few lbs of hops that have been in the freezer. All are sealed in the factory 1-4 oz...

What is everyone's experience with using old grain? I have ~125 lbs of grain I bought in 2017 and haven't had many opportunities to brew in the past 1.5 years. Some of the grain may be slightly older like 3-4 years old (if I bought a lb of a specialty malt and only used 6-8 oz I kept the...

Curious what varieties of apple trees are being recommended for cider? Ordered several fruit trees for a small orchard and have only ordered a Franklin so far that will be dedicated to cider. Also considering an older variety of smokehouse or haralson given that they both are supposedly good...

With the launch/announcement of the new picobrew product I figured we would need a new thread as there have been discussions between various other Threads. There currently is a promotion that if you use another individual's code who has purchased a unit you can get $100 off for every person...

I am curious what everyone thinks of this automated setup. I am mostly interested in one for recipe development as it appears it would work well to make a small batch (5l) to trial something new. It will have ball lock attachment on the kegs and has the most reasonable price of any of the...

Looking for a person or two who wants to do a pre-order on the new pro brew jackets. Price per website is $216 per unit. Add $70 for a conical jacket instead of carboy jacket. $13 shipping per unit. Need to order 3 to get discounted price. I am interested in 1, willing to buy 2. But no need for...

I had a surly furious clone that I brewed up about 6 months ago. The beer has been sitting in the primary fermentor the entire time as I forgot it in a closet that has been a consistent 60 degrees over the past 6 months. My question is will the beer still be worth the darn? I need to dry hop...

I am wondering if anyone is running a RIMS setup with a 30 amp control panel. I am looking into this option but I am unsure of how to wire the RIMS as I will be running 1375w (11.5 amps) for the RIMS and if I were to run the BK or HLT at the same time (5500w/~23 amp) I will be tripping breakers...

I am wondering if anyone out there uses a filter bag for their hop spider bag. I looking at buying some 400 micron 7"x32" nylon bags to use for a hopspider on a keg but just curious if anyone else is using these. A little more than $5 a bag if you buy 5 at a time. Based on my nylon hop bag...

Ingredients: 8 lb Rahr Pale Ale malt 6 lb white wheat malt 1 oz Cluser (60 minutes) (~6.5%) 0.5 oz Cascade (10 minutes) (~6 %) (2 gallons) Simply Lemonade Mash at 151 for 70 minutes Boil for 60 minutes Used Danstar Munich German Wheat Beer Primary Ferment for 28 days to allow...

Was going through the freezer and found 8 oz of simcoe from last year. any suggestions on a good brew.

I have 3 3-gallons and 10 5-gallons, always looking for more too! Had an opportunity to buy 4 of the 10-gallons when I first started making beer....I though $50 a piece was too much...boy was I wrong.

I have a question for everyone. I have some octoberfest harvested yeast and some belgian wit yeast that i had harvested and placed in my keezer. I finished my basement and my keezer was unplugged for about 6 weeks. Well I forgot that my yeast were in there. I have them canned in 1/2 pint...

Just finished my first all grain, started at 6am and just finished putting things back in storage. Did a surly bender clone for my first all grain. Had a couple bumps along the way, first i sparged too much water and had to boil for an extra 30 minutes to get to my target volume Had it down...

I have on affiliation with New Belgium but saw this deal, doesn't seem half bad for 2 glasses. http://shop.newbelgium.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=GG&Category_Code=GW

I am approaching my first all grain batch. I currently have 2 kettles, one is a 11 gallon that I installed a 1/2" valve on the bottom, the other is a 24 gallon with a pre-installed 2" valve. The valve on the large tun is some wierd firefighter type. Now here is the delema. I want to do a 10...

I am thinking about putting a wunderbar gun into my basement bar. Have a 3 gallon keg of seltzer water that will be connected to the gun. Now I was thinking about buying some 1-5 gallon bag-n-box syrups, but we do not drink that much soda to make it worthwhile. I just tried some of the...

Well I have been itching to do my first all grain and have been thinking about starting out with a 10 gallon batch of a blue moon clone. I have taken quite a bit from recipes I have found here and there and this is what I am planning on doing for a recipe 2.00 lb Flaked Oats 10.0 lb 2-Row...

I have two of these for sale, they have been used a decent amount prior to me getting them. Still punch through metal just fine (just went through some steel approximately 1/16" thick) Looking for $20 shipped for each one. These are the sizes needed for the weldless kits, fits PERFECT, not too...

Just found this, not sure if anyone lives in that area or not, but if anyone is looking for huge batches for a homebrew group or something this might be decent http://www.bidspotter.com/forms/photo.php?photo=11166611&date=Jul-14&time=10:00