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I've been out of brewing for about 10 years due to some health issues (a pain condition that alcohol worsens, which I've finally figured out what was causing it and addressed) and naturally my gear is pretty much all gone and/or needs to have been replaced anyways due to being plastic. anyways...

due to health reasons I've been out of the beer brewing world for about 5 years, and as such, most of my plastic brewing supplies DEFINITELY need replacing. I remember back in the day it was like a rotating monthly deal of groupon/living social to get some pretty crazy deals on brew kits, but...

Ok, I've been away from the brewing scene for almost 3 years due to a severe illness that I'm slowly getting used to (chronic pain so I was kind of not exactly caring about drinking beer for a while). Anyways I had a Midwest supplies groupon deal for gear back then (still have it actually), but...

well, after 20 or so brews I got my first infection. luckily it was ONLY the starter. I did a starter using some 3711 Wyeast from last summer that I washed and low and behold it started getting a couple of large bubbles that looked very "soapy" and the whole top was covered in a soapy white film...

I have a smack pack of 1056 that's been in my fridge since the end of July 2013.... was going to do a pale ale today and use that smack pack , but I'm wondering if that's waaaaaaay past the experiation date or will a couple day starter rouse it up

I pulled a pint of slurry from my IPA on monday... thought I was gonna brew in 2 days but I won't be able to till sunday night/monday morning... is it still good to pull and use straight away or should I use a starter?

gahh!!! for 2 years I have not done ANYTHING that might lead to an infection. I'm METICULOUS when it comes to that. today while I'm bottling my swamp nut brown ale and siphoning it to the bottling bucket I have a clamp up near the edge of the bucket that keeps my racking cane from flopping...

ok, I did a booboo. I made the swamp nut brown ale from the recipe list this morning and accidentally swapped the 60 minute hops with the 5 minute aroma hops. I was SUPPOSED to do 1 oz of Willamette at the beginning and 1 oz fuggles at the very end but I spaced it and did thefuggles at the...

gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!! I get up this morning for a great day of bottling and drinking beer. get everything all ready and go to soak my bottling bocket with some oxiclean only to find that the spigot for the bottling bucket is magically missing the nut that secures it to the bucket. and of...

ok, I don't toss my equipment around or mistreat it at all, but my wracking cane, and bottling wand all have hairline cracks running lengthwise down them and I've only had them for about a year at most..... is this common with the plastic racking equipment? should I just trash them or are they...

ok, just took my first gravity reading of a Hef I did a few weeks ago. I've made this same basic recipe a dozen times and they've turned out very similar, but this one turned out really dark, almost a dunkleweizen color, and tastes almost like lightly burnt carmel just a tad. still quite good...

ok guys, I was out of Star san and I have a big quart jug in the mail coming soon, but I was in need of bottling today so I ran down to my LHBS and grabbed a tiny 4 oz bottle of Iodophor on the cheap.... I used the recommended 1 tsp per 1.5 gallons of water to mix up a gallon and a half of...

soooooooo, any group buys for the Tucson area???

ok guys, I have a glass top stove that doesnt' like to boil over 4 gallons of liquid without the lid on so I've stayed away from upgrading to all grain BIAB batches till now. well now I have an extra ale pail that's not in use this time so I thought I'd try a SMaSH IPA only doing a 3 gallon...

ok, I'm thinking of doing my first partial mast so I'm gonna need to make sure my dial thermometer is calibrated correctly so I can hit those finicky mash temps I live in Tucson AZ so my elevation is 2593 feet above sea level. according to my remembrance of temperature adjustments it's 1...

decided to branch out from my basica Hefe's and try something a bit new have a bit of 3068 washed yeast lying around and I love me some german wheat's so though a dunkel was the next logical step modified in at 6 lbs of Wheat LME 8 ounces of american chocolate malt 4 ounces of Bicsuit 8...

ok, I accidentally dropped my auto siphon a few days ago and I noticed today that there are some TINY little spider cracks on the outside about 1/2 way up the outer "shell" of it, almost can't tell they're their until the light hits it just right... I can't tell if they go all the way through or...

ok I have a question. my buddy just grabbed the midwest groupon and is snagging the "irish stout" from the list of 3 beer kits to choose from. I've heard that the Irish stout kit from Midwest is kinda so-so so I was wondering if anyone had a good way to modify the kit for a better result...

ok guys, looking to make my very first IPA... I'm looking for something that will impart a nice heavy grapefruit and pine taste to the IPA (never used IPA/PA hops so I'm not sure which ones will impart that flavor). Any good recipes/kits that use hops of that profile? any tried n true recipes of...

ok guys, I don't have a fridge to cold crash my beer. HOWEVER trying to do a makeshift coldrash by filling my rope tub with water and 4 Two-Liter soda bottles that I'm rotating as fast as I can freeze them. Right now I can keep it at 50-52 degrees. will that help to drop stuff out of suspension...