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I'm taking a stab at building a pseudo-portable pseudo-bar/counter/tap/coffee thing. I'm decent from a technical standpoint with building things, but pretty terrible at coming up with imaginative ideas. Any input/opinions/critiques/whatever are welcome. The background: the place I moved into...

Simple recipe for 15.5 gallons... 21 lbs. Belgian Pils 9 lbs. flaked wheat 3 lbs. Munich 2 lbs. Cara-pils 4 oz. Saazs (whole, several months old) So the plan is to put it all in one fermenter for a few days with a lambic yeast. When it's slowing I'm going to separate it to three...

This is the first recipe that I've conjured up on my own and also my first barrel-aged beer. So far I've done 3 batches, a 5, 10, and just recently a 15.5 that will be going to a charity event. I'm pretty critical of the beer I make, but the first two have been pretty tasty, and the third one is...

I bottled about 9 gallons worth of beer that spent a while in a cask, but no bottles carbonated at all, not even the slightest hiss. Yes, I know beyond a doubt that I actually did add sugar to it. My best but still skeptical guess is that I didn't pick up any yeast from the cask while siphoning...

Because Consolidated Mill Supply told me they could cut a piece of perforated steel for me and then when I got there, after an hour drive, told me all of their machines were in use and they could only have it ready in a few days, I had to come up with my own false bottom. I have a huge Bayou...

Here's the story: second cask-aged beer, ~9 gallons for 2 months in a 1/2 bbl cask. I bottled it about two months ago adding boiled table sugar for priming, however there is zero carbonation. I mean none, not even a slight hiss when I pop a cap off. So has anyone had a similar experience...

I got a set of those Fastrack bottle trays. It works, but I wish there was an inch more space between each holder so it would better accommodate larger bottles, which is what I've primarily moved to because I hate sanitizing all those smaller bottles. In my quest to eliminate or minimize the...

Maybe I'm just ultra lazy, but I got really tired of flipping, spraying, or slowly running starsan on or through all those tall things that stick up above the waterline in a 5 gallon bucket....autosiphon, thief, etc. So I picked up a large piece of PVC pipe and a cap, glued them together, and...

So I had my PID hardwired into a mini-fridge for a while but I'm shuffling around my cooling devices and needed something modular that didn't require cutting the cords. I had an old computer power supply lying around and put 2 and 2 together. I used everything (minus the blue box) you see in...

Does anyone have experience using a positive displacement pump? I found a tri-clover, lobe-based PD pump that I'm thinking about purchasing and I think I have an understanding of them, but if anyone can provide practical input or check my knowledge, that would be awesome. It's my understanding...

After much reading and research and starting off with a crazy design that accomplished everything in the most roundabout way possible, I've finally settled on this. If anyone wants to look it over and share advice/critique/whatever, I'd be much appreciative. Currently I have a single tier...

I'm about to hard plumb my system and am trying to settle on whether I should use 1" or 1.5" tri-clover piping. It seems like there are more accessories (sight tubes, filter, etc.) for 1.5" and that it's overall a bit more popular. I understand that the connectors are physically compatible with...

I know there have been a few hundred posts on balancing lines, of which I've read quite a few, so forgive me for bringing this up again. I just want to make sure I have everything straight and get a few questions answered because this has been the bane of my brewing experience. Correct...

It had gotten dark, my boil had just finished, and I began recirculating everything through the chiller, everything was going great. I had my cell phone out for light to see what I was doing when I noticed a strange sensation on my ankle. I was standing next to the pump and, as it turned out...

In particular I'm trying to get my hands on the Fifth Element saison. I don't know how available it is now, but I've heard good things about it and am still on the hunt. And for all you folks who are just perusing through here, if you're around a good saison/farmhouse supply, let me know too...

Hey everyone, I've been brewing for just short of two years now. I'm new on here, but not new to this place. I can't tell you how much valuable stuff I've learned from this forum (thanks!) and I figured it was about time to be a part of it. I'm a huge fan of Belgian beers, and in particular...