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The short version, since I need to get to bed, is that I have a stout that's been in the primary for almost 4 weeks and I wanted to get it off the yeast cake to let it age. Nothing high gravity, OG was 1.055ish. After transfering it tonight I took a gravity reading and found that it had...

11lb. Briess 2-row 2.5lb. Crystal 90L 0.5lb Chocolate 1.5oz. Williamette 4.3% AA, 60 minutes 2oz. Williamette 4.3% AA, 30 minutes 2 tsp. Irish Moss, 15 minutes 2 packages Nottingham Let me start by thanking Orfy, this recipe is based off of his Mild Mannered Brown Ale using ingredients...

This is only the second time in the last 11 months I've had a chance to brew. Oddly enough, my son is 11 months old...hmmmm. :D I would like to try and do a 10G batch but my MLT is a 5 gallon round cooler with a SS braid. I've heard of other people pulling this off making session beers so...

In order to not derail SpanishCasteAle's burger thread I took his suggestion and fired up a new thread on bulk beef buys. For me it works like this. My brother works for a grain elevator and consequently has numerous farmer friends. One in particular raises beef cattle and whenever he's...

I'm trying to find someplace to pick up an extra 5# CO2 tank. Locally I've found two places, one wants $79 and the other $89. Online I've found two more places: http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/gas-cylinders-pid-430A-5E.html and http://www.co2-cylinder.com/ I'm not familiar...

Last night I went downstairs to draw off a pint and I noticed that the regulator showed my CO2 tank as being empty. I've only been using the tank for 3-4 weeks. It's had 3 kegs hooked to it pretty much that entire time. I haven't paid real close attention to the regulator but I don't recall...

I’ve been struggling with poor efficiency. Not horrible, just poor. So, in the hopes of finding a resolution for my own troubles and perhaps helping out others who are also struggling with efficiency I decided to start this thread and detail the steps I’m going to take to resolve...

For those of you who are more fluent with kegging please let me know if the below approach is the correct one to take. I currently have three kegs of beer in my beer fridge all getting carbed at around 38F at 10.5psi. Two of these kegs will have been in the fridge for two weeks this Thursday...

I brewed an amber about 2 months ago and right at the end of the mash, as I was heating my sparge water, my thermometer died. By the time I got a new thermometer and got the sparge water re-heated my mash ended up lasting about 2 hours. A little over a week ago I kegged that beer and I tasted...

Anyone else that CAN'T WAIT for college football season to start? My Buckeyes take the field in just over 30 days. The anticipation is killing me. Who's your team? What are your thoughts on the upcoming season? With 20 starters returning this is shaping up to be a great year. If they can...

Wow... I mean WOW... Why in the world I did not start kegging before tonight I HAVE NO IDEA. First two kegs, 5 gallons of stout, 5 gallons of amber: Whilst kegging said beers, a nice glass of blonde ale: Next came a keg of blonde ale, this one has a bit of a story to it hence...

I just recently picked up the gear from my LHBS to start kegging. The guy who runs the place told me that I could carb 3 kegs at the same time off of one 5lb. CO2 tank. I took his advice and bought a 3 way splitter but in pressure testing my kegs it seems like I'm getting different pressures...

I finally broke down and purchased the equipment I needed to get my kegging system setup. More details on that to follow in the Bottling/Kegging forum. For now I have a question on cleaning a corny. I have three that I got from a friend of mine and they look like they've been sitting in a...

Grilled rosemary lamb chops, butter and parsley red potatoes with sautéed mushrooms and a blonde ale. Sorry, no beer pics.

First a little background. I’ve been homebrewing for almost two years now. I’ve done extract, PM and just recently completed my 6th AG batch. When I first started out I made one batch of mead that I ended up pitching and I’ll admit that it probably could have been salvaged had I known more...

I just did my second AG this weekend and I must be missing something because my efficiency was horrible yet again, ~55%. Here are some of the details, let me know what else you need to know... I'm basing this efficiency estimate off of Beersmith. I was supposed to end up with 5 gallons at...

I imagine you can already see where this is going. I've been doing some research on the net about it and I've found various cases, some where people were ticketed for doing it, others where they were arrested and still others where either or both happened and the civilian ended up suing and...

I'm not actually brewing until tomorrow, weather permitting, and if not then Sunday but I'm so darn excited I figured I'd go ahead and get the thread going. I hope the weather will play nice, temps are in the teens right now and our highs for this weekend will be in the low 20's. I'm sure that...

My first AG session is coming up this weekend and this past weekend I put all my new gear through a dry run of sorts just to see how things are going to work. From that little test I discovered something that I wanted to ask you guys about. The keggle I have which was a freebie from a friend...

In preparation for making the jump to AG I’m going to pick up some bulk grains from my LHBS and containers to hold them. What I’m shooting for are the base ingredients to make a basic pale ale, amber ale and stout. I’ll start with the containers. I’m going to get these...