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I'm trying to dispense some soda, and getting nothing but trouble. I'm new to kegging entirely, and I seem to have it worked out for my beer, but the soda is killing me. I've got a keg of grape soda carbed up, on the order of 4 volumes of CO2, trying to serve from a party tap and of course it...

Growing up near Albuquerque, we followed the southern style of referring to almost every possible soda as "a coke", with a little c. "I'm gonna go get a coke." *comes back with grocery store brand orange soda* Now I'm starting to get into homemade soda, and I hate calling it soda. Would...

After I noticed that my HLT element was always on, I checked my SSR and it was stuck always on. Even with all the power off, the power contacts showed a 2 ohm resistance, where my BK SSR was > 2000k. Is the thing just fried?

TL : DR My ginger ale might be boozy? After homebrewing for a few years, I decided on a whim to try making some (non-alcoholic) ginger ale. Without doing any sort of research, I boiled up some syrup, steeped some flavorings, cooled a bit but not much, added some salvaged yeast, and bottled...

I was racking some beer to secondary when I decided to actually collect some of the yeast cake for a ginger ale experiment. I've never done it before, always just used new yeast for batches. My 5-year old, who often watches me brew, comes up. She: Whatcha doin? Me: Collecting some yeast...

After about a 9 month hiatus from brewing due to too much crap goin on, I finally completed my brew stand! No more brewing off the edge of a clothes dryer for me! Here are some pics. My eldest was too excited and wanted to be in the picture. It is fully disassemble-able, so one person can...

I've been brewing for about a year and a half, but since I don't get to brew even once a month I still consider myself a noob. Well, I made a honey wheat of my own recipe, all-grain, and put it down to ferment. I got busy, so past the 2nd or 3rd day I didn't go down to look at it. I was in...

Like the title says, what pulls you by the nose from brew to brew? For me, it's usually a name. I randomly think up a name, write it down, then later try to fit a beer to it. Sometimes it's in the name, sometimes it's a stretch, but I usually have the name before the beer. A few examples...

This might be a no brainer, but when you make an imperial whatever (nevermind the argument about historical use of "Imperial") you increase all the grains, base and special, in the same ratio to get your target OG, right? Do you then increase your hops to get a calculated IBU increased by the...

This was my second time using my newly constructed system; the testing and first brew session all went great. The SSR had felt warm before, but nothing that made me too worried.This time around though, I was heating my strike water, operating at 100% cycle time for maybe 20 minutes, when I heard...

Or it might just be the recipe. Brewed up Yooper's Dead Guy Clone two weeks ago and just pulled a sample. It's not done fermenting judging by the gravity reading, but this is actually the first hydrometer sample I actually wanted to finish the whole thing. So freakin' delicious! Usually I just...

I want to say that my LHBS needs a new supplier for hop sacks, but instead I will just say that my beer's got the biggest balls of them all!

Is there anything I should be doing to take care of copper components between brews, other than normal cleaning and drying as best I can? I'm putting together a copper tubing manifold for a cooler MLT and I've been using a copper coil IC for about a year. If I'm lucky I get to brew about once a...

I've just about got the first phase of my system build but I wanted to share a few good suppliers I found. http://www.wolfautomation.com/ These guys have LED pilot lights, although they call them indicator lights, for a couple bucks cheaper than amazon or ebay. They also have good prices on...

I bought the PID over at Auber and was planning to just use it in manual mode with my boil kettle until I have my HLT set up, but it seems that unless I actually have some sort of temperature input on it, it faults to the lowest output setting. Is there a way to trick into thinking I have some...

I just built this cheese press in about 20 minutes.:rockin: I used cull wood from DIY mega store, some metal braces, a garden gate hinge, and plain old wood screws. Total cost ~$12. I cut a notch to hold the weights on and marked distances for 1.5, 2, and 3 times the end weight for pressing...

I think. Followed the recipe out of Ricki's book and it seemed to turn out great. Super smooth, kinda light texture, not sour. I've never had a commercial example so I can't compare. But I spread some on a graham cracker and it was fantastic! The only problem is after a light pressing and...

Needed 1 o-ring, so naturally they only came in a pack of 25. Message me and I'll mail you one for a buck. This is the part info. Silicone high temperature o-ring (McMaster-Carr part number: 9396K38) (1-3/16" ID x 1-7/16" OD x 1/8" width, AS568A Dash No. 217, Durometer hardness A70, FDA...

I'm currently buying parts for a scaled down version of the BK and control box from www.theelectricbrewery.com . Scaled down, cuz d@mn, that thing is overkill. But anyway, even chopping out half the unnecessary stuff I'm still spending a couple hundred dollars on parts and it just feels...

The strainer I used on my kettle spigot didn't do much to keep the hop debris out of the way so I was considering a hop ball (or two) and had a question. Do you experience reduced alpha acid extraction if the hops are confined in a ball (or a bag) instead of free floating? I think I read...