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I'm selling my entire brewery including hot side, cold side, and keezer. Each in separate bundles for now. PM if interested. More info can be found here: http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31127

It's now Tuesday night and I just took a reading of 1.070, it started at 1.077. This is the first time I couldn't see activity in the blow off after 24 hours. It has been awhile since I brewed so I decided to use dry yeast to avoid my usual liquid yeast start process. Dry yeast checked out...

What is your thoughts on a couple white lab vials of Ale yeast sitting around 80 degree weather the past couple days? :)

Hoping someone could help me out here. So if I take a recipe I find online and plug it into Beersmith I'm always a bit puzzled on how to mirror the amount of late additions hops. Early addition hops are fairly easy given I can use the IBU's as a gauge. However, 1 minute or 0 minute hop...

For whatever reason my West Coast IPA gelatin addition didn't clear it up. It's got a significant chill haze three weeks in the keg. I'm sending this beer into a competition and it is due for drop off in two days. Should I: 1) Add more gelatin and hope it's cleared up by the time I...

Bought a new 30 foot travel trailer this year. I need to figure out a way to bring the beer with me, :-). My first thought was to use my 3 gallon corny kegs and build a tap system out of a cooler. However, I have found that the 3 gallons are to tall. I suppose I could buy some 2.5 gallon...

I took a brewery tour this past weekend at Ithaca Brewing Company in Ithaca, New York. I naturally asked 100 questions and learned a couple techniques I had not heard of before. One of the more interesting things was that they ferment at 70 degrees (thought that was a little high) and that...

I combined a few different recipes and brewed a Smoked Porter a couple weeks ago. After the trub and yeast dumps there is approximately 10 gallons of beer left. I have a few questions about the vanilla bean addition: 1) How many vanilla beans should I add for a subtle vanilla taste (I'm...

Figures with my first try at a lager I screw something up. I brewed a 12 gallon batch of Schwartzbier yesterday. Put it in my conical at 5pm Saturday. Took a bit to chill down to ~50 degrees. When I went to go pitch the yeast starter I have been stepping up it was frozen.... Should I...

Ok, I'm puzzled with this mystery. I have noticed this on my last couple of PA/IPA batches. Towards the last gallon or so from the keg the beer flows almost crystal clear. At first I thought this was because it had been sitting for longer than when I first tapped the keg. However, I do 10...

My counterflow chiller just isn't getting the job done. It took me almost 2 hours to cool down 12 gallons of wort. My cold water is a bit warm (60+). I'm cooling to 66-68 degrees. This past weekend I had the water go through an immersion chiller in ice water. It didn't help much...

I am receiving a morebeer conical this weekend. It is going in an upright freezer and I am controlling the temp by placing a controller probe on the outside of the conical with insulation. I also plan to monitor the temperature inside the thermowell. However, I will only be able to check it...

Could I move the remaining beer from a 15.5 gallon sankey keg over to homebrew keg? I REALLY need the space in the fridge so I'm thinking of hooking up the output directly to a corny keg and holding the relief valve open as I fill up the keg. Thoughts?

I recently built an eBrewery. I followed most of Kal's plans but what I didn't follow was the pumps. I went with the latest edition of the Chugger Stainless Steel inline pumps. After two batches I found my flow rate in my mash/tun a bit subpar. Some research led me to believe that the flow...

Ok, why is "t" set to 24 on my setup? If I set it to "2" for my SSR's the temperature reading go wacko (571 degrees). I set it to 2 before the AT and AT set it to 24. Whenever the output is triggered it is on for at least 1 second. I would figure this would pulse with short bursts of heat...

This hasn't happened to me before. With my new system (Kal Clone), I want to understand what could have happened before I do another batch. Anyway, I follow Kal's Pale Ale clone which has a O.G. at 1.056 and F.G. of 1.010. After calibrating my hydrometer I found out I did hit my O.G. which...

I plan to try stepping up my yeast starters in order to ferment a 12.0G batch of 1.069 ale. With 1x100B vile I planned a 2.0L starter on a stir plate, followed by cooling, decanting, and pitching the yeast into another 2.0L starter on a stir plate. By calculations on www.yeastcalc.com this...

I bought several pounds of many varaties of hops earlier this year. I vacuum sealed mason jars and froze them. How can I calculate loss of AA%? Will there be?

So I'm testing this today. Just using a racking cane with a tiny bit of CO2 pressure to move water out of a secondary, up, and into my sink. I plan to use this method to transfer an Amber Ale over to a keg later today. Can I use this same method (but with a racking cane in each carboy) to...

I have officially gotten wife approval. I will be building an electric brewery in the basement. It will be another Kal clone. I ordered the control panel kit tonight! So excited!!! Pictures of the space to be posted soon. And I hope to document the steps as I build it out!