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I am starting to get a little more into what affects the beer I make and I am curious about the effects of water. I have city water and my in-laws have a well so I have two different sources. My question is, what would be a good style of beer or recipe to use to compare the differences? I am...

I am working on setting up an eBIAB system so I can brew indoors during the winter. I ordered a DIY control panel kit from Auber and it has controls and outlets for 2 pumps. It makes sense to have one to recirculate the wort, but what would you need the second one for? The label that they give...

So I have been brewing for about 3 years now and its been in the same 8 gallon aluminum pot. About a year ago I decided to start BIAB and its worked great for 8 or so brews. However, today while I am brewing another one, I hear a pop and notice the bottom of the pot now caves upward and the...

I had some extra runnings during my brew day so I decided I would give wild yeast a chance. I just got done wrapping a hop sock over a gallon container that was half full and set it outside. I plan on using this as a starter if anything catches. My question is: if it does start, how long can I...

Not quite sure where to post this, so I am posting it in the general area. My wife and I are expecting our first kid this September and I was wanting to brew something for the occasion. Basically I was thinking of brewing something, either a beer or wine, just before the baby comes and letting...

I have just recently gotten into kegging and am wondering how many kegs I can figure on carbing and serving on a 5lb tank. I just ran my tank empty yesterday with only going through 2 kegs. Is that normal, or should I expect it to last longer? From what I can tell, I don't have a leak, but...

So, I was reorganizing my brew space and rediscovered some ingredients I had forgotten about. Now I need some input on what to brew. If possible, I want to use up the stock I have left but I think I will need to get a little bit more grain. Here is what I currently have: 1lb light dry...

I just stumbled upon an article saying that St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts are brewing the first American Trappist beer. I have been curious about Trappist ales but haven't had the opportunity to try one. May have to make my way over the the northeast...

I stumbled upon this video online and it would be a great way to have kegged beer everywhere! http://feedly.com/k/15D0i3M

I am wanting to brew a saison, however from the recipes and experiences I have seen, most fermentation temps seems to be anywhere from 65° to 90°. The commercial beers I am shooting for are Big Sky's Brushtail and Boulevard's Tank 7. My question for everyone is what is the best fermentation temp...

I am looking for some kegs to get into 10gal batches. I am mostly looking in the SE South Dakota, eastern Nebraska or western Iowa.

I just got a faucet tower in the mail today and installed it on my mini fridge. Up until today, I have just been using picnic taps with 5 feet of line. With the picnic taps I never had an issue with excessive foam with the regulator set to 10-11 psi. The tower faucet came with the same length of...

I just bottled my first wine from a kit. It was a blackcurrant white Merlot from Orchard Breeze. I screwed up while starting it but it ended up coming out pretty good anyway. It came with a blackcurrant sweetening blend and instead of putting it in secondary like I was suppose to, I put it in...

I had brewed a simple wheat beer a few weeks ago and when I went to keg it, I noticed the lid was just sitting on top of the bucket. I know that I sealed it after I pitched my yeast and a few days later I had seen the airlock blown out but wasn't too concerned. I had the beer in there for 10...

I am interested in moving to an electric brew kettle but I am having some trouble finding some info. Basically, I am trying to figure out the minimum wattage element I would need to boil about 7 gallons of water in my kettle from a 110V source. However, sometime in the future I plan to upgrade...

I am planning on making a sorghum beer for a buddy, but I haven't found many recipes. Would it be a bad idea if I were to find a regular gluten recipe and just substitute sorghum extract for the malt extract? For example with a typical red ale? Thanks for any input.

I am starting to look into getting a keg for a keggle setup. I was wondering how much I should expect to pay for a plain keg? Also where would be the best places to look? Thanks

I am looking into making a keggle for myself but before I looked too much I was curious if my propane burner would be able to do a 10 gallon boil. It was just a cheap turkey frier kit that I got at Target and it doesn't say how many BTUs it is. What size burner is everyone else using?

I was reading another thread on here about making a Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat clone and some of people were saying to put fruity pebbles cereal in the secondary. I assume they were joking but it made me curious what would happen if you did exactly that? Would it screw with the beer or just give...

So I got my hands on a bunch of 1 gallon glass jugs that my father-in-law had in his barn and was thinking of using them. Problem is they are full of muck. I let 2 of them sit in oxyclean for awhile to loosen up the muck and when I poured it out I found mouse bodies and skulls. Some pretty nasty...