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I'm looking for ideas on turning this 20 year old stand up fridge/freezer into a beer fridge. I currently have one corny and a three tap CO2 rig (given to me). I'll add pictures of the taps later. Ideally, I would like to have 3 cornies in the fridge but still be able to store bottled beer...

I'm going to bottle my Surly Bender tomorrow. I've got a small yeast cake at the bottom of my secondary (WY 007) that I was thinking about saving. Two thoughts: (1) is there enough yeast in secondary to make it worth it? (2) can I just rack the beer out, bung the keg with and throw it in the...

I want to reuse the WL007 I just brewed. So when I racked to secondary I harvested the slurry into a clean/sanitized 1 gallon carboy. I knew I needed to wash it because it would be at least one week before I'd get around to brewing and pitching that yeast. So I boiled some water for washing. I...

So it's only been 9 days but my hydro is telling me I'm at my target FG. Do I bottle now or let it go for another 12 days (as the instructions suggest leaving in secondary for 14 days)?

I've read in several different places recently about brewers who take the wort off the trub before pitching the yeast. Does anyone practice this? How do you do it? Does it improve your beer quality? The method, as it appears to me, is (1) brew and chill the wort as usual, (2) rack to carboy...

Anyone ever use this dry yeast? I pitched it at 70 F but immediately took my primary down to the cellar (about 51 F). No signs of fermentation yet (it's been 18 hours). Think it needs to get started fermenting at 70 before I move it to cooler climes?

Bottled my 3rd batch. For the 3rd straight time (all different beef styles and ingredients) there is this background sweet taste of corn. I don't think I tastes like band aids or anything like that. It's funky and it's GD annoying. The only constants between the 3 brews is priming with corn...

I dry hopped my Gumball Head clone with pellet hops. It's been about 10 days. The beer looks good but there is a lot of suspended matter from the pellet hops. Any concern that they didn't do their job?

I know there are folks homebrewing in Spokane. Let's get together. Over beers of course.

I bought new ingredients on my lunch break. It was a 60 degree day and I park in a covered garage so I left the ingredients, including the package of Safale yeast, in my trunk. I got waylayed after work and the stuff was in my trunk, in the sun (it warmed up significantly), for a couple of...

I've got my Rocky Raccoon sitting in primary in my SOFC (a cool 50 degrees!). I think fermentation is going to be complete very soon (I will confirm with hydro readings over the next couple of days). Assuming fermentation is complete, I need some advice on next steps. (1) The original recipe...

I have absolutely no electrical experience. I've built the cabinet and it works great. I got a fan and it runs perfect on the 12v adapter. It has 2 wires (blue and red) that plug into the adapter. The problem is how do I hook the fan and thermostat together? It is a Honeywell model RTH111. It...

Anyone have any idea how to wire my fan (and its power source) to the digital thermostat (which runs on batteries). I have no clue.

1) do I need to ferment at 55 deg or less? 2) is it critical to chill the wort immediately or is the "Papazian" method of sparging directly into the carboy with 2 gal of cold water in it acceptable (this took about 13 hours to come down to pitching temp)?