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Here's a quick video on how to remove and reasemble sanke kegs. Alot of people shy away from using Sanke kegs for their homebrew because they are harder to clean. Yes, cornies are easier to clean and easier to open and close, but I've never had a problem with sanke's. I use both types of kegs...

Congrats! I've just started into the whole all grain addiction and have brewed up three batches in the past month. A steam beer, cream ale and brown ale. They were all "kits" from ihomebrewing.ca that had all the grain, hops and yeast you need. For my next two batches I'm going to try a porter...

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I have a kegerator with two taps. Last week I hooked up a new keg to the kegerator to be able to carbonate it. I have one tap on a tower, and one tap coming off the front of the kegerator(it's a converted freezer). I removed the keg that was hooked up to the tower(and almost empty) and...

Great. I assume that the "rhino farts" won't follow the beer into the secondary/keg? lol

Just took off the lid of my Fermenter to take a gravity reading and noticed a very citrusy/funky smell to the beer. This is only my third batch, but I haven't noticed this before. Is it infected? Or can you only tell when you sample it?

I can just picture how tantalizing the beer would look with octopi on the bottles. LOL :mug:

I'd say give half of the shirts away for free and sell the other half for $10. People will think you're a nice guy(which I'm sure you are anyways) for giving out a shirt, and then recommend people to your brewery. The other half of the people will think shelling out $10 for a shirt is dirt...

Out of nowhere during my first batch I started to fully understand the second law of thermodynamics and how much entropy can really be a prick. I also started to ponder how beer aged on the international space station would taste vs. beer aged on earth due to the difference in speed, therefore a...

What's the best way to age beer? Ales, not lagers. I have a keg system, so should I keg the beer without carbonation or carbonate it? Should I age it in the fridge or in a cooler(mid 60F range) area?

Rdwhahb - Had to look that one up. Great idea though! Blue Ring Ale it is then! lol

Don't ask me why, but when I got home today I just had to have a peek at the beer I brewed yesterday. There was some little voice inside my head saying "open it up", so I did. I opened up the bucket and what did I see... the little plastic ring that locks the cap onto the spring water bottle...

I mixed up some iodaphor last weekend, and when I was finished with it I put it in a glass bottle with a airlock on top. I heard that exposure to air will neutralize it. It still has the same brownish colour as it did last weekend. Is it safe to use?

What would you recommend as a good yeast for a porter?

No, C02. The sugar was when I brewed.

I just kegged my first batch yesterday. It was a Coopers Dark Ale kit. I followed the directions pretty much to a "T". Including the addition of white granulated sugar. I'm going to carbonate it slowly over the next week to prevent over-carbonation as well as to age it a bit more. Last night...

Thanks for the input. I figured that since I see so many people using these buckets, and the LHBS supplied it to me, it can't be all that bad. Personally though I like using a carboy. I at least know that there is no possibility of air getting into my brew. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

I guess i could put some kind of weather stripping in the gasket if i wanted to make a better seal.

I just brewed my second batch today and used a fermenting bucket I picked up from my LHBS. When I pitched my yeast and placed the lid on I gave the bucket a shake to aerate the wort. I noticed that some wort came out of the rim around the bucket, meaning that there's not a very tight seal. I...

Not trying to save a few pennies at all. This is my second batch ever and haven't been able to find a place that carries Star San or iodaphor yet. Will probably have to order it online. EVERYONE at ever store that I've stopped in at carries B-Brite and says that it sanitizes. Odd that all of...