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I kegged about a month ago, and everything seemed fine for a week with co2 pressure (11 psi). I went to draw some beer out after the first week, and nothing came out. I opened my freezer, and all of my co2 was gone. I put a new co2 can in, and everything was great for 2 weeks. I would check...

I'm looking at getting a beer gun, but then I started wondering the real difference between that and running tubing from my tap into the bottle I want to fill. A beer gun isn't something that I would use all of the time. I started thinking that I could cap bombers or bottles to fill for family...

All, I'm going to wash my yeast for the first time this week just to do something different. I've got an irish red in the fermenter now that I pitched US-05 into. Can I harvest this yeast like any other one? When I do get them transferred to mason jars, do I need to still create a...

All, I've been brewing for about 4 years, and I've always done it like this: Heat water in brew pot, pour water in mash tun, dump grain in water, mash for 30. While mashing, I would heat sparge water in a different pot. When time to sparge, drain wort from tun to original brew pot, sparge...

All, I missed the volume on the mash that I needed. I was about 8 cups shy of what I needed I believe. Can I fix this by adding more volume to sparge water? Thanks!

All, I had a random thought today. Let's say I have two different types of hops (made up numbers): 5% AAU 10% AAU Which would bitter more at the following levels? 5% AAU = 60 minutes 10% AAU = 30 minutes I ask because I just did a porter and it came out a little more bitter than...

All, I was going to brew today, and at the last minute I thought I'd use some hops that I have in the freezer along with new ones I bought yesterday. First of all, I have no idea how old these things are. They could be 3 or 4 years old. When I open them, I put the left over in a ziploc bag...

Do any of you know (maybe electricians :)) if it's safe to run a 220v stir plate on a 110 adapter all of the time? Thanks!

All, This may be second nature to many of you, but I was curious so I started searching around. I'm drinking a Uinta Detour DIPA right now, and I have to say this is one of the best IPAs I've ever had. So much so, I had to try to find a clone, and I cannot find one. It's always been hard for...

What's the best way to mark the kettle or a stick? Here's what I do now: I have an 8 cup pyrex measuring cup I find how many quarts I need for mashing, and I find the equivalent in cups. Let's say 80 cups for mash water. I fill my pyrex cup 10 times...sometimes losing count... I tried to...

All, I used about 8 oz (1 cup) of vodka to sanitize vanilla beans for a porter I brewed. I had 6 beans and I was trying to coat them completely. I'm about 2.5 weeks into the keg, and after tasting the other day, I have a strong alcohol flavor. The question is - will this tone down like beer...

All, Is it possible to replace the oring in the perlick faucets? I found out today that I could have remnants of my root beer left on the oring inside of the area that connects to the shank. I removed it, and sure enough I can smell root beer. Is that possible or am I just smelling remnants...

All, I added my vanilla to the primary today. I let it sit in vodka overnight and dumped everything in the primary this morning. So, I had to use quite a bit of vodka to completely cover the beans. I used 6 of them. I guesstimate that I used about a cup to a cup and a half of vodka. How much do...

All, This is a dumb question, I know, but I have to ask. How much oxygen is really bad? I was drawing off a sample today out of the bucket to measure fg, and I accidentally squeezed the bulb after the nozzle was in the beer. It bubbled. I doubt it hurt it, but I'm now curious. I made the...

All, I have some vanilla beans that I'll be using in a porter. I want a strong vanilla flavor out of it. I've read some people say to use 2 beans for the most part, but my recipe calls for 5. What I don't know is this - do I scrape the stuff out of the pod and throw it into the secondary...

All, I brewed a scotch ale, and I did a couple of things differently that I normally do. First, I didn't use a hop sock during the boil and second I used Irish Moss. These are the only two things that I did different from my normal routine. (Normally I use hop socks and no irish moss.) The...

All, I think I messed up. I had a root beer keg that I was going to reuse for beer. I replaced the o-rings (large and both on the in and out connectors), but I neglected to replace the oring in the poppets, around the long diptube and the gas tube. I tested the beer tonight, and I could...

All, I've got a beer in the fermenter that BS says it should be complete around 1.017. The estimated original was 1.072, but I hit 1.062 (the style is within 10 points I believe for a Porter). So, in my notes, I wrote I had 1.062. I don't remember that day very well :ban: Okay, I did a reading...

How do you get enough wort in your wine thief when the thief is taller than the bucket? I've been dipping mine in the wort several times to "build" up the volume in the thief, but it doesn't seem like I ever get enough to be able to use it for my hydrometer. I end up dumping the sample into a...

All, I brewed last week under heavy drinking. I had several 10.1% homebrews :) Anyway, I had left my hopsocks in the fermenter, and from asking on here, the consensus was to leave it in the fermenter. I did. I looked tonight, and there was no krausen and the two hopsocks were floating on...