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Hey everybody, So I kegged my EIPA last night, very hoppy and young/green tasting, which is ok, all that will (should) mellow out with a bit of time. It was VERY cloudy, however, which I am thinking is largely due to the dry hops (1.5 oz EKG in each carboy) because I took a gravity reading...

Hey guys, A batch of EIPA I brewed this past Sunday was furiously fermenting away last night and, pressing the palm of my hand against each carboy, I noticed a discernible difference in temperature between that and the carboys of Scottish ale that are sitting quiet and happy after 2 weeks...

Hey guys, Below is a link to a pic of my SS braid system in my MT and I've been thinking lately that a similar set up in my kettle might help to filter hops, freeing me from having to use a mesh bag. Thoughts or opinions? http://imageshack.us/a/img21/5140/bmg8.jpg Cheers!

Hey guys, I used a SS scrub pad as a hop filter wedged under my dip tube and I noticed that a ~1" wide grey film had formed a ring around the hop bag for my hop spider and around the inside of the kettle, both at the level where the boil roughly started. Never saw this before and I can...

Hey guys, Finalizing my set up before next weekend's first brew on it, and I'm wondering about the height difference required to prime a Chugger Pump efficiently. I currently have the outlet from my BK and HLT at 4" above the top of the pump head and about 7" above the bottom. The inlet...

Any ideas why I can't see photos anymore? Almost all of the recent posts that, judging by the responses, seem to have photos/pics, I can't see them!

Hey guys, I'm planning my new brewstand build and was wondering...if my kettles are positioned so that the bottom of the kettles are 1.5" above the top of the pump and 5" above the bottom, will that be enough to prime the pump, or do I need more height between the two? The ball valves are...

Hey guys, So, I REALLY wanna brew this week as it's my last week off before returning to work for yet another season of landscaping. Only problem is the @&%*$ cold weather outside. Ain't no way I'm brewing outside in this crap. So I wanna brew inside on my stove. My brew kettle will span...

Hey all, I'm getting some camlocks soon and I'm having a tough time deciding what to use for my female couplers. I'm deciding between type C (with the built in hose barb) type D with a 5/8" hose barb screwed on, or type B and force the silicone tubing over the 1/2" male threading. All three...

Hey guys, I searched but found nothing, so my apologies if this has come up before, I'm sure it has. I am getting a Chugger pump soon (maybe a Great Brew Eh pump though) and I am wondering it it will be compatible with my mash tun which has a SS braid? It's a 10 gallon Rubbermaid/Home...

Hey everybody, I wanna make a copper manifild for my mash tun and I was wondering if you can get away with doing it without soldering it. ie: can the pieces just be fit together? I can solder, I've done it before, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it, lol. My main concern is that flux paste...

Hey guys, Got my water report from Ward Labs today. I'm on a well and I bypassed our water softener, letting the water run from the tap for about 7-8 minutes before collecting my sample. Here's the results: pH: 7.9 Sodium, Na: 121 ppm Calcium, Ca: 55 Magnesium, Mg: 45 Sulfate, SO4...

Hey guys, I'm replacing my chrome taps with Perlicks and when I took my tap apart this spring came out of the shank. Does that go back in with the Perlicks or no? I'm thinking no.... Thanks! Nick

Hey guys, I'm in the process of rearranging my hops garden, and in the process I dug up and gave away a lot of my hop vines. All my bittering varieties were given away and I kept my flavour/aroma varities. I will be planting rhizomes for the varieties I am keeping in the areas where the...

Hey guys, Racked some finished beer to a keg last night at my friend's house and we forgot to put the bottom cap on the auto-siphon, so I picked up more yeast than usual. My intent was to fill just 6 bottles for a local competition from the keg when I got home, but I decided to cold...

I pitched about 3 hours ago and I have signs of fermentation already...bubbles coming out of the blow-off tube and a thin beige cake starting to form...but...what is this stuff?!?! The stuff I'm referring to is the "cloudy" looking stuff floating just under the surface. Uploaded with...

Hey guys, I was calibrating my sight glass using the method that BobbyfromNJ on recommends on Youtube. I noticed a discrapancy between volume and weight however. After pouring 4 cups of water 4 times into a larger container from a Pyrex measuring cup that the accumlated water weighed 8 lbs 4...

Hey guys, Just opened up my sanke for conversion (I have yet to cut the top off) and I looked in and saw this. Are those rust spots in the upper left or just residual beer gunk? It's on the inside along the sides too. Hard to tell if it's rust or not. What do you guys think? Nick

Hey guys, Can I use a brass wire brush attachment for a drill on a keggle to clean/buff it without any adverse effects? I'm not looking for a mirror finish, but something that looks clean and smooth(ish) Cheers, Nick

Hey everybody, I just racked the first beer I had ever dry-hopped to a keg. I mean I've dry-hopped before, but always bottled afterwards. First time I've put a dry-hopped beer into a keg, lol. Anyway, I tried my best to filter out the hops (I dry-hopped with pellets) but I KNOW some hop...