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Has anyone had any experience adding Oregon fruit puree to a keg? If so, please share. I have a stout that is decent, but not as chocolate and roasty as I was hoping for. The beer is already carbonated in the keg. Any issues with adding a can of Oregon fruit puree to the keg? There's about...

Hey Guys, I am looking for a fridge or freezer (or several) for potential use at my club's homebrew competition. Our current venue for the competition does not have refrigeration on site, so our club rents a refrigerated truck for the weekend, which is pretty convenient, but also fairly...

The Boil Volume calculation in my equipment profile does not equal the Est Pre-Boil Vol in the Mash tab. Est Pre-Boil Vol = 6.47 versus the Equipment's Boil Vol = 6.72. Shouldn't these two values equal one another when the recipe is set to use the equipment profile? Obviously I can sparge or...

My goal was to build a simple copper manifold for my cooler mashtun based on the design recommended by John Palmer (references below). The cooler is the Rubbermaid 10 gallon round cooler purchased from Home Depot. The exterior valve and bulkhead were built following FlyGuy's Cheap and Easy 10...

I'd like to replace the analog Johnson controller on my keezer with a single stage temp controller similar to the STC-1000 which I have on my ferm fridge. Since I only need a single stage, I was thinking of purchasing this controller...

I'm planning my keezer build and I've heard mixed opinions from various people about using wood to cover the walls of a chest freezer. I'd like to build something similar to this: http://wardiesworld.wordpress.com/category/brewing/keezer/page/2/ (this guy has more woodworking skill than I do...

Hey Everyone, I recently started using ubuntu and I'm having an issue where the "My Recipes" folder in Beersmith2 is empty although there are a few recipes in the /Home/Beersmith2 directory. I'm a bit of an ubuntu noob, but I thought that's the file location I was supposed to use. When I go...

Hi Everyone - I'm getting my parts together for a three tap kegerator build. I don't really know a lot of the differences between these three secondary regulators. I'm looking for a regulator that will do its job and last a long time. I've read a few other posts where people seem to really like...

I'm curious if there are alternatives to using vinyl tubing for racking and transferring that make sense for a homebrewer. Although vinyl tubing is inexpensive, I don't find it to be a great material to work with. It's difficult to dry, it's difficult to clean the inside, and it gets stuck on...

I'd like to harvest yeast from a bottle conditioned 12oz commercial beer. I'm comfortable making starters and I've read procedures for bottle harvesting, but I have some other questions that I couldn't find a consistent answer on. My questions are: 1. How much wort should I use for a starter...

Well this sucks, I just had my first bottle bomb. It was a pretty violent explosion, glass went out over the six pack holder and traveled a few feet across the room. Thankfully no one, or none of my pets, were in the area. I think it may be a bottle issue as the other beers taste pretty...

This might be normal, but I've never experienced this before. I have an American Wheat Beer fermenting with Safale US-05 yeast in a temperature controlled chest freezer. It's the first time I'm using this freezer although I also have a top freezer refrigerator that I also use for fermentation...

Just thought I'd share: http://www.hogtownbeerfest.com/beerfest/index.cfm :mug: Samples from commercial breweries, homebrew demonstrations, beer seminars, etc. Sounds like a good time.

I'm looking to buy some of my grains in bulk and milling my own grain. I'll make a reasonable offer if someone has a decent mill for sale. I'm in Gainesville, FL and I'm willing to pay shipping if the deal makes sense. Thanks everyone.

This might be a dumb question, but can I use this oxygen tank for aeration? It doesn't have the valve on top that I would expect...

Hey everyone, normally I don't secondary, but I've told that with this beer that maybe I should. My beer has been in the primary for two months (it took a few extra weeks b/c my fermentation stallled around 1.033). I'm wondering if I should secondary or bottle? If I'm planning to age the...

Hey Everyone, I'm wondering how does one best control the temperature of their beer in a ferm fridge? I'm using a Johnson control single stage controller with the probe dangling near my glass carboy. This doesn't seem to be working very well as the fermometer strip and the ambient...

I originally posted this on the Recipes page, but it might be more appropriate here as I have a few more questions I'd like to add. Hello Everyone. So, I really like North Coast's Old Stock Ale, and I found an older post with the recipe listed below. I'd like to know if anyone has tried this...

Hello Everyone. So, I really like North Coast's Old Stock Ale, and I found an older post with the recipe listed below. I'd like to know if anyone has tried this recipe and what their results were. Also, the note's to recipe say, "you need to boil your first gallon of wort very hard for 30 to...