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I have some free time this week so i come up with new project, i want to motorized my mill using cloth dryer motor i have laying around, 1st problem i dont know how to wire it even to see if it works. I know nothing about electric motors and im surprised it has 6 connections available (plus 2...

I saw a friend today and he shared his story with me, he was buying good bottle of bourbon for his father and he was explaining to his 7 year old son about liquor and aging and that you have to be 21 to drink ect. Next day the little guy comes to him with a plan, he wants (and he is 7) to age...

Aren't we? I'm sitting in my garage brewing dipa and drinking 5 different beers. My father wasnt able to buy anything different than lager/pale and there is me 20!years later with hundreds of bottles of homebrew and much more to chose from LS in walking distance. Beside that life expectancy is...

this beer did very well in drunk monk challenge competition (big comp with 850 entries, 1st in BD and BDS category with 42 points but didnt place in BOS) so i thought i would share the recipe Type: All Grain Date: 10/5/2012 Batch Size (fermenter): 11.00 gal Boil Size: 13.68 gal Boil Time: 60...

Maybe not very useful but kind of cool: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/05/google-drive-has-a-handy-spreadsheet-auto-fill-option-for-beer-drinkers/

Yep i am, it doesn't open for another month and judging is in march but im already tasting my beers. Im drinking RIS right now that i pampered for 6months of fermentation/conditioning, same recipe done 2nd time and it is fantastic. Last Saturday i tried 2 bottles of belgian double (split batch...

i have been brewing 10gal batches and using 2 different yeast strains for fermentation of the same wort. i thought i would post some observation and hope other brewers can add more results, maybe at some point we can make add poll or make a nice big list, anyway its not a lot for now but this is...

Its not what you expect from the title, i dont have a problem with bottle carbonation after a week in the bottle, no no. I just transferred my 11% abv ris to tertiary carboy and of course i had to sample a little bit, this beer has relatively low FG at 1.016 and taste great but when i was...

Im making 1st sour, for few reasons i did primary fermentation with regular Saccharomyces strains (split batch with 3787 and 1214) Og was 1.048 and when primary was done i transfered to 2ndary, FG was 1.013 and 1.015, im adding roeselare to one and lambic dregs to the other carboy and im not...

Just want to report that starsan is rather stable and can be reused. I made a solution per instructions using warm chicago tap water, used it to clean 80 bottles, 4 carboys and 3 buckets over 3 weeks during which i kept it in plastic bucket (lid on but not snapped on) at room temperature. It was...

Hi Guys I got 4oz of magnum after drying from first year plant, i know its nearly impossible to determine IBUs in home grown hops so im gona use default numbers in beerSmith for that but is there something different about 1st year harvest (like use double amount or something?), do they have...

Hello This is 2 pictures of my 1st year magnum hops, cones look nice and seems to me they are almost ready for pickup (light, fluffy cones with paper like texture but still dense/moist in the center), normally i would give them more time and check on them everyday so most likely i would pick...

So i would like to try something new but this forum is missing sticky/guide kind of thread that can explain basics of brewing sour beers for newbie like me. From information i was able to gather here and there i come up with this plan: simple recipe with pilsner malt as a base+some vienna and...

I have a choice of B-day present this year and im thinking of oak barrel (10-15gal), i would like to know you opinion if its worth it (price maintenance ect). I want to use it to make sour beers, not regular oaking (i do that in carboys with cubes/spirals and im happy with results). Do you think...

I just made porter and im wondering if i should use yeast from it to ferment RIS, porter was at 1.069, RIS from recipe would be around 1.1 and im using notty this time.

I have to say i found hop i dont like, i made amber ale where i used columbus in late additions and little bit for dry hopping, it has this bad after taste that close to smoky/burn flavor, i really thought its from rather large crystal 60 addition. Then i made IPA, use it again for aroma/flavor...

im revamping my brewery and ended up with 2 extra keggles. One is 13.2gal (50l), cut out in wired square and 1/2in ss coupling welded in. I have been using it for a year as a BK and mostly did 10gal batches but you have to watch for boil overs at the beginning. Its little bit up but no leaks and...

Im looking for short 1-2ft piece of 1/2in id soft copper tube, i want to make a dip tube with it. I got 2ft but hard version and its impossible to bend it the way i want to. I was just looking for it but i only find big coils (20ft is the smallest), does anyone know where can i get it? Thanks

Passing along Just found it on craigslist (its not mine) for $10 you can get fridge with broken termostat (freezes everything) but if you want to turn it in to small ferm chamber you need controller anyway (ebay aquarium for $20) so this would be perfect for 5gal batches...

Looks like it didnt work as planed, i got my self a bottle of orval, it was from august 2011 so not too fresh but not too old for belgians standards. Let it sit in the fridge for two days then pour in the glass and added 1.035og wort to clearly visable yeast sediment, swirl it and transfer to...