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Morning, I recently updated my keg fridge to a 6 way valve and added 3 more kegs into the loop. I keep the fridge at 35 and have found that 10PSI on my old 3 way will generally have my beer ready to serve in 10 days. I kegged my first new beer on the six way 12 days ago and its still hardly...

Okay, so here is the question, likely answer is simple. I take a reading, say of my OG. The reading may be 1055 however if I set down the refractometer and forget about it for an hour it may have crept up to 1065. Is this normal? My gut (and expected numbers) tells me the initial 1055 is the...

Okay so last Sunday I brewed a low grav. Wheat with some Wyeast 1010. I admit I didn't use a starter for the first time in a long time, just poured in the packet but the OG was only 1.043 so I didn't really care. The fermentation lagged to the high end of 18 hours but it took off and had a...

Okay, so I got a new refractometer (blue box, model RSG-100ATC) so that I could easily grab PBG and OG. Previously I just used a floating hydro. Here is the deal. I have pure RO/DI water for my fish tank so I calibrated the refractometer with that (per the instructions) and verified its at 0...

Okay, I have searched around with little luck so here is my question. I am now kegging my homebrew (which I am new to, 6 batches down). I have two CO2 bottles and regulators. Please read my process and tell me if I have it wrong, am overcomplicating things: 1.) Primary for 4 weeks, rack...

Hey there, when I got my first home brew kit, the reviews mentioned it came with everything but a bucket filter. Not knowing any better I bought one with the kit. Yesterday I brewed an IPA. I drained the boil kettle into the fermenter by placing the output hose in that bucket filter (basically a...