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So I just got home from the liquor store with some beer and as I was loading them into the fridge, I noticed one of the bottles only has about 1/8 of the bottle filled. The cap seems to not be the issue, but the cardboard carrier and the bottom of the bottle are covered in mold. Obviously, I...

So I've been kegging for over a year and I always thought that I was able to close my tank, close off the hose to the keg, release the pressure from the regulator, open the hose from the keg and I would get a readout of the pressure currently in the keg. Unfortunately, this isn't the case...

I am about to enter my second competition, which is the first one I have entered that requires the BJCP recipe form. Does the recipe affect any part of the judging process? Why is it required? Will the judges reference it after judging to offer helpful critiques? And finally, if the judges...

I am getting ready to bottle my first batch of mead and I wanted to know how most people go about it. First of all, is it fine to use beer bottles (22 oz) with normal caps and a bottling wand? I am not looking to carb the mead, so I felt that I'd be leaving an unsatisfactory amount of oxygen...

Is $550 a good deal for a used Blichmann 14 gal conical fermentor with leg extensions? Looks like a new one from Northernbrewer would be about $720. Wondering if used should be a bit cheaper than $550.

On Tuesday, my keg ran empty and I washed and sanitized it and racked my next batch into it. Purged and bumped up the pressure to 30 psi and stuck the keg in the fridge. Ever since Tuesday, there has been a slow leak of liquid from the gas post that will begin to run down the side of the keg...

Shelf in my fridge gave way and I lost a Rogue Old Crustacean. ;-(