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I think i have covered all the obvious candidate's. I have: 1. Used to packs of fresh rehydrated yeast. 2. Used temperature control accurate to two degrees of liquid itself. 3. Used up to 50% filtered RO/DI water 4. Replaced all plastic equipment and hoses 5. Switched between star-San and...

I brewed up a double IPA a few days ago,using 6#DME and 5#grain,,and 3 packs of dry yeast s-o5. The wort looked and smelled great:) 24 hours into ferment my lid blew off my ale pail,,there was no clog in the air lock. is that normal? The beer inside looks like mud,,,brown and gritty...

I made a batch of light pale ale today. some of my past batches have had a slight clove/chlorine flavor. So today before the boil I added one campden tab to the tap water. My only concern is that this batch is showing no signs of life after 8 hours,,,,every other batch I have made with safeale...

this is a 20 gallon SS pot. I used some old junk I had to fashion a makeshift valve and strainer. I would like to try my hand at all-grain brewing. I also have a 5 gallon SS stock pot. What would work to insulate this(mash tun) ?? Does this look like it would work? From what I...

my last several batches have had a clove flavor in the background. What is the culprit?

here are a few terms that I can't seem to get a good grasp on and the book does not help. maybe you can? 1. Briess 2. pilsen vs pilsner 3. carafoam or "cara" anything 4. crisp or "crisp" anything 5. candi syrup

the first beer in jamil and john's book is,"ander-stone lite" It calls for light LME and Rice Syrup. The thing is that my local shop does not have rice syrup,and online I can only find rice syrup solids (if that's the same thing?) and it seems pricy to me. I see that many vendors offer corn, is...

I just got a nice(older) stand-up freezer! I will be using this to ferment lagers and ales. I may also use it as a beer fridge when I am not brewing. How exact does the thermostat NEED to be? What do most of you use? I would rather not spend alot of money if I don't HAVE to :)

Think I am going to pick up a small window air conditioner , And I have some space heaters. My plan is to build a 3' x 3' x 6' box in front of a window in my basement and insulate the ****e out of it. What are some cheap ways of regulating them? My thought was to use a cheap t-87 thermostat...

I made a cream ale,a blond,and an all grain APA over the past few months and they all taste the same, they taste like a stale beer with a teaspoon of cloves in the bottle. they are UN-drinkable. I have tried to age the cream ale for several weeks and the clove flavor is stronger than ever:( I...

Well I got 10# of "crisp pre-crushed pale 2-row english malt" and one# of carafoam german crystal malt 2-4 L , one ounce of willamante pellet hops,and safeale s-05 yeast. I mashed for one hour at 150-155 F and sparged for 15 in 160F water. When I was done not all of the sparge water would fit...

made a cream ale about 2 weeks ago. When I look at the bucket I can see that there is a separation at about the 2.5 gallon mark (5 gallon batch) the top is clear but the bottom half is very milky. when I taste some from the spigot it tastes like banana flavored cream ale and is very...

I have a 20 gallon ss pot and would like to go electric. How cheap can I do this? Dose homedepot sell the parts?

I got a stainless pot that is 18" in DIA. and 18" tall. BIG! and thick walled! But now I need some kind of burner or electric heating unit. I am an electrician so I am open to building a burner of any kind but cost is an issue here.

I cant make heads or tails of this,,some books say to add half of the extract at the end of the boil for hop utilisation,yet some say you MUST boil extract for an hour to reduce DME/S whatever it's called(lol)....what to do?

My basement is staying at 50F . I have 2 stouts and a wheat beer in primary ,will they be ok? Also would this be a good temp for making a lager? The basement will stay at 50F for the rest of the winter.

I made a black IPA well kinda..lol 10# williams stout LME 1/2# table sugar 2oz. cascade whole hops 60 min 1 oz. magnum pellets at 60min 2oz. cascade whole at 10 min 2oz. columbus whole at 10 min (dry hopping 1oz of cascade pellets in a week) here's the catch I had to use wine yeast...

heck at 5 bucks a pop I could get 3 and just drill em myself

what exactly is it? can I make anything other than stout with it? I have 25 pounds of this due to a great deal online but I don't think I want 3 or 4 batches of the same stout.

I have not had to secondary yet but here is what I made: foreign extra stout 10# williams stout LME 1/4 cup roasted barley 1 # crystal malt 3/4#light crystal malt 15 grams safeale s04 15 grams safeale s05 5 gallon batch Do I hhaavvee to move it.....