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Does anyone use a male (or female, I guess) polysulfone disconnect (as sold by NB) on a brew kettle ball-valve? Any issues with heat from the burner? I had a brass QD failure and am searching for a different solution. Andy

So my buddy has been hounding me to make a cider - I'm not much of a fan but he is. This being August, choices for fresh cider aren't great, so I picked up 5 gallons of Zeigler's (sp?) and used it. It was THEN I noticed that Zeigler's is pasteurized, but then again so is Tree Top and...

I, like someone else who recently posted, would like to harvest the yeast out of a couple bottles I have but I would like to clean it and save it for use in a later brewing... I've read the yeast cleaning 101 thing about how to recycle your yeast - but how is this done out of the bottle...

I'm forced into doing an all grain batch even though I'd rather not. I ordered a kit from Northern Brewer and I may have accidently ordered the all grain version or they sent me the wrong one... water under the bridge at this point. Rather than sending it back, I'm just going to do it. I've...

So I'm debating on getting a minibrew conical. I like the idea of single vessel fermentation and the price is right. That said - when you drain sediment, etc. from the bottom port, the level of good beer falls, correct. So after 2 weeks in a conical, there should be no sediment, and good...

No, seriously... I've got a keg on tap right now that hasn't been on gas for days, yet keeps pouring. I took it off gas because it was way over-pressure and was pouring nothing but foam. A few pours later and it was reasonable... So I never put it back on gas and just drew another pint and...

Hey everyone - I'm trying to improve my wort cooling process - I currently use an immersion chiller. I'm looking at the therminator - any good? 1) Is it easy to sanitize? Can you just run boiling wort through it for a few minutes to handle sanitation? 2) Would a pump definitely be...

All - Quick question: Last week, I brewed an American Pale Ale using Wyeast 1056. We pitched the yeast at about 80*F. Usually, this yeast is very tame, ferments quickly, etc. The OG was 1.040, we racked to a secondary yesterday with an IG of 1.009 or 1.010. Today I checked the carboy and...

I'm looking to do a pumpkin ale soon to let it keg condition and be ready for fall. I understand that pumpkin ales, by nature, are pretty labor intensive b/c all the crap that ends up in the brew-pot and the fermenter and often times requires a terciary fermernter to allow it to clear...

Is it necessary to somehow purge air from your beverage lines? I'm running at 8 psi with 6 feet of 3/16" ID beverage tubing and there is foam in the beer lines for my new draft tower where the wasn't with my picnic tap that I used before the tower came. Andy

Okay - so I've been serving my beer from a picnic tap with 6ft of 3/16" diameter line for a few weeks and all has been good. I install a draft tower and plumb it up, draw a beer and it's all foam. I draw a few more - foam. Also I notice that with the picnic tap, from the first draw, the line...

So a buddy of mine brewed up a Belgian Wit using a recipe I cobbled together from several sources and recipes. Here's what we used - How does this sound? 1# Flaked Wheat (Steeped while water came to boil) .5# Flaked Oates (steeped while water came to boil) 3# Extra Pale DME 3# Wheat DME...

So I got a couple Cornies from an eBay softdrink distributor. Seem to in decent shape and the price was right ($17 ea.) One thing I noticed. Before I could breakdown, clean, replace orings and reassemble, I put them on the keg shelf in my brew supply room. Both were empty and not under...

For those of you that "keg condition" (ie, rack to a keg and condition at room temperature before cooling with CO2) do you just purge the headspace and store in a cool dry place or do you actually use priming sugar as in bottling? If you use priming sugar, I'm assuming you use the same...

Hey all - I'm planning on switching to all grain and have a few questions: 1) How is efficiency calculated? 2) My understanding of the mash process is: -Select your grains and crush -"Dough in" with water at a specified temperature (160 deg) at about 1 qt per pound of grain -...

Inspired by this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=30882 Let's talk about what your guilty pleasure commercial beers are - the beers you like to keep a six pack or so on hand that you wouldn't like your fellow "beer snobs" to find out about. We've all got them. Mine...

I went to pick up a new gas line from my LHBS. I asked him if he had clamps - he handed me these. http://www.smallparts.com/products/descriptions/chn.cfm He said he won't use anything else, just as good as worm-type or oeticker but won't mar the tube and are reuseable. Anyone else...

So I kegged my first batch yesterday. Not being in a rush, I decided not to "force" carbonate but to let it carbonate for about a week on CO2. Here's my setup - Amber American Ale in a 5 gallon corny with 6 feet of 3/16" ID beverage tubing with plastic cobra tap (I wanted to get everything...

I have a big air compressor I use for working on the cars - all the fittings are teflon taped. So I got to thinking... I know you don't tape the actual threads on the CO2 bottle that you attach the regulator to, but what about the downstream fittings, such as check valves/shutoff valves...

Hey all - I'm looking for some old 15 gallon (half barrel) kegs to convert to sparge water tanks, brew kettles, etc. for a home brewery project. I'm in Northern VA - where is a good place to score a couple empties? Andy