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I just purchased 5 gallons of freshly pressed unpasteurized cider and followed this recipe exactly, being careful to warm up the cider and the white labs cider yeast to 70 degrees before pitching. I also gave it a 60 second shot of Oxygen before pitching and set it aside to ferment at 70...

If you have an air compressor and a small diameter nozzle, after soaking in oxyclean and rinsing with water, wad up a small piece of paper towel, insert it in the hose and shoot it through the hose using the compressor. Do this a couple of times and it will be dry. Set aside and then sanitize...

I am in Minneapolis and it has been the worst spring EVER. Cold and rainy every weekend. I planted my hops anyway about 5 weeks ago and the fuggle and glacier poked out of the ground a few days ago. I think I might have pulled the cascade leaves poking out of the ground a week or so ago...

mine is the "5 gallon spiral paint and mud mixer" made to mix up 5 gallon buckets so you can get down into it to stir the wort, they can come with even longer handles if you search but that is probably not necessary. Do not get one that is painted but is only metal plated and keep it clean...

I use a commercial grade metal stirrer for heavier paints and "mud" attached to a portable drill. It was and is washed in oxyclean, dried and then sprayed lightly with star san. I mix the hell out of the wort with this after it has cooled being careful not to touch the fermenter bucket, moving...

ok, read through all of this (quickly) and am not a scientist, but I can read. Now help me out, after I boil this down (could not resist) to the irreducible minimum for those who want the bottom line. 1. For most Ales, getting to 8ppm oxygen using air only to oxygenate by air pump or by mixer...

Midwest Supplies sells an 11 inch false bottom that fits great in a 10 gallon rubbermaid cooler, the web sight says it fits tight, but it really fits perfectly if you are careful with it. good compromise between the 10 and 12 inch options.

so far the best deal I got at a garage sale were two cases of empty Fat Tire bottles for free! I am prowling for carboys, bottles and maybe a water cooler for a back up mash tun.

I have a stainless steel wort chiller that works great but it came with cheap 3/8 inch ID vinyl tubing and a cheap clamp set up. The tubing got all kinky and looked like it would be prone to breaking and leaking (as stated in other posts). In the basement I had an unused, thick walled washing...

Costco has pretty hefty plastic boxes with interlocking, closable lids (stackable) that hold 35 - 12 oz beer bottles for under $8 each

For what it is worth, i just bottled my first batch of all grain this weekend and I used all the hints given by Revvy and others, one of the best of which is to simply use a short piece of tubing between the bottling spigot and the bottling wand and then simply pushing the bottle up into the...

BrewersSupplyGroup.com (a division of Rahr) has lots of information about hop types, hop substitutions, malt types, yeast, crop outlooks etc. fun to look at all the info. they put out for the craft market.

I joined up because every time I googled a brewing related question the answers were always found with this group and above all i have learned from reading the posts that.......wait for it.........DWRHAHB!! Shorty