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I do. I had just started drinking "craft" beer. (Blue moon, Paulener, etc). My buddy tells me to find Broken Halo by Widmer. That its delicious. The first drink and I thought my jaw was going to fall off. I choked through that bottle. 3 days later and I finished that six pack it was the gateway...

I'm getting ready to start a big ferm chamber and have a few questions from those who have built them. It will be 72" high, 48" wide and 24" deep. Two plastic conicals in the top space and ample room for buckets and bottle conditioning. My questions. What material should I line the inside...

I see all the HERMS and RIMS units and have been wondering, is there a problem with just putting an element in My mash tun, under the false bottom, controlled by a PID and recirculating? As long as the pump is running whenever the element is on there shouldn't be any problem with scorching...

Sparked from the "Funny Things" thread... What are some of your alternate uses of your yeast cakes? I obviously wash and reuse for 6 generations. Other uses I've found: When my wife was breast feeding she made oatmeal cookies with it. Supposedly increases supply. Put a small amount in our...

My brother in law is getting married this weekend. As his wedding gift I brewed 60 gallons of 4 different brews. I built this Jockey box yesterday, but am questioning what size hose to use. I have plenty of all the sizes of hose. I was planning on running all 3/16 beer hose, but now am...

I've heard of bottle bombs, never had one. I've seen pictures, but never any real evidence of a "bottle bomb". Over pressurized bottle that crack and drain, yes, but not anything with power. Until now. I was asleep, getting ready to go in for a shift when I heard a loud noise in the living room...

As most people here do, my wife and I dream of opening a brewery in town. The market is ripe for it, and we are in the planning stage, but it still feels like a dream. While perusing Craigslist for a small pond pump to recirculate ice water in a fermenter I ran across this. March TE-7R-MD...

I've been looking for a simple controller design for a long time. I'm looking for something to simply control my mash temps, then increase it to boil in the same kettle. I have couple different elements, a couple keggles and bins full of spare copper and stainless. What I lack is any electrical...

Kind of threw this together in my head one night. I may have been sleep deprived (graveyard EMT). I wrote it in a little booklet then decided to brew it up. It's been in primary for almost a month now and is still fermenting. 5.5 gal Mashed at 152 10# 2 row 1.5# flaked oats .8# Carapils .3#...

So I finished a blond ale the other day and was looking at my clean yeast cake and remembered that I had 4 gallons of apple juice in the garage. Being in a lazy mood, I decided to just go ahead and add the juice to the cake. I put in 1 gallon and swirled it well. Then added the others. With 1/2...

This is really messing up my brew day. Flames are shooting out of the air mixer/ Venturi on my turkey fryer. What causes this and how do I fix it?

Know plenty of people say no lids while boiling, but I think it helps keep a good boil going. I sourced a dead keg from a recycler, small dents, and a stainless wok lid from salvation army. I was thinking that any steam would roll down the wok lid due to the dome shape, and down the drain holes...

So, what would happen if say, I asked SWMBO to "put those ingredients on the counter in the freezer, please" I of course Meant the hops I had left over. Two days later and I realize she also put in the jar of yeast that I had saved. Will this yeast be ok to reuse? I wanted to get something on...

I'm starting an Apfelwein today and was going to use a 5gal carboy I borrowed form a friend. I don't have any bungs that will fit it, and quite frankly, don't want to go to the hassle of running around town looking for a rubber stopper that will fit and drilling it out. I've heard of people...

So I ordered ingredients that I thought were going to be close to New Belgium's Hoptober. While brewing, and subsequently enjoying a buddy's new Imperial Black (9.3%) we failed to notice that I was sent the wrong size and type of one grain, and one of the hops was incorrect. By the time we...