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Sorry….dumb question here….on the pre-loaded equipment list (ex. Pot (13gal/50L) - BIAB. The 13gal means the size of the pot I will be using for my pre-boil and boil to brew a 5.5 or 5 gal batch correct? But I can change that to a 15 gal profile which is what I have. Also the BIAB is BrewInABag...

After a day of brewing with my new pot I soaked about 8 gallons of hot water and oxi clean inside with rest of brewing equipment. Washed smaller equipment first then let it soaked for another 2 hours. Tried scrubbing stain out. Not having any luck. Any suggestion or ideas? Or should I not be...

I am getting ready to brew an IPA. I've looked all over here and other places for amount of water to boil for all grain BIAB (no sparge). I have 12.5 lbs of grain, 4oz of hops to make a 5 gallon batch at 60 minute boil. I will be brewing outside in my garage. Todays temp will be around 65F. From...

I bought a small chest freezer on Craigslist several months ago. Only paid $25 and it's a Wood's brand. It works fine. I plugged it in and it got cold very quick. Not sure on the size, but I can fit only 1 carboy at a time. I recently bought a Johnson A419 temp controller for the freezer and am...

I am getting ready to brew next weekend and I have a chest freezer that I want to use for fermentation for the first time. I just bought a new Johnson A419 and it's all wired up and ready to go. But I have a question on it before plugging it in and trying it out before I brew. It comes with...

My 6th time brewing. My 3rd all grain. My first time using Wyeast (California Ale x 2 packs). It says to snap the pak. Which I did. But when I went to pitch the yeast (Wyeast) one of the packs did not open (in both packs). So went ahead and cut open the unopened one and threw inside carboy and...

I recently bought a new Bayou SQ14. I have not used it for brewing yet. I will be using it this weekend for the first time. But I did try it out a couple of weeks ago and again yesterday to make sure it will work for my brewday Sunday. Both times it would flame out on me. The first time I...

My DIY stir plate is completed. But I cannot get my stir bar to spin inside my 2 quart Pyrex with water. The stir bar works fine when I place it directly on top of the stir plate. I have a 2" stir bar with a small round ring in the middle. The bar is inside a clear vinyl beer line because of the...

I'm putting togeather a Stir Plate from many resorces online and here. I did a temporary wire of all the connections before making them permenant. I turn the switch on and the stir plate runs. But it only runs on one speed. I turn the potentiometer and nothing happens. All the wiring is correct...

:mug: I am almost 3 weeks into fermentation with my Pliny the Elder from morebeer.com. Did a all grain mash n sparge. OG reading was off. 1.068. Should of been between 1.072-78. Did a yeast starter (first time). Lots of burping going on first 5-6 days. Dry hopped on 9th day. Took a reading 2...

Just finished brewing our forth batch. A dipa called pliny the elder all grain from morebeer.com. We are four for four on IPA's or DIPA's. And on each new batch we have upgraded our technique. From partial extract to all grain mash n sparge on the last. From bottling to kegging. If you can't...

Getting ready to brew a big beer (DIPA) this weekend. All grain doing mash/sparge technique(first time). Doing some calculations on TastyBrew.com. I know what batch size is (5 gallons). What is the Boil Volume? Is that the total amount of water I will be using for this batch? Or is this the...

Brewing a big DIPA this weekend. Should end up with 8%. Calls for cal ale wlp001. Should I add 2 vials? Or 1 is good enough? Yeast starter?

I will be doing my second all grain batch next weekend. It is a PtE AG kit from morebeer.com. I've been reading the instructions trying to get ready for brew day. I built a 10 gallon mash tun and will be using it for this batch. Never done a mash & sparge before. My last batch I did the BIAB...

I currently have my DIPA in secondary fermentation in a 5 gallon carboy. It's been 3 weeks now. But it's stuck at 1.026 for over 2 weeks now. I bought a vial of White Labs WLP 099 to try and start it back up and hope to finish at 1.017. Is this a good idea? Or should I hold off and pick up some...

Our home brew has been fermenting for over three weeks now. I've checked the hydrometer reading once every week. It's been sitting at 1.026 almost two weeks now. The OG reading was on target at 1.071. And the FG is suppose to be at 1.017. This was an all grain DIPA with Zythos hops. This morning...

I have 3/8" Stainless Steel tubing coil for a jockey box I will be constructing. My question is "What is the easiest way to coil it (like copper tubing coiled for wort chiller) so it will fit inside the ice chest?" With the copper tubing it was easy to coil as I used a round canister. And the...

Finished up on our 3rd batch of homebrew yesterday. This was our first all grain batch. Took longer than extract/grain. We steeped 16lbs and used 4oz Zythos Hops. This is a double IPA. One step I forgot was to add Irish Moss or Whirlfloc 15 minutes before end of boil. Would this make a...

We will be getting ready to either bottle or keg our brew. I would rather keg. It will be our first time kegging. I finished up with the full size refrigerator to kegerator conversion over the weekend. Have a two tap system for now. 1st tap is GFWCIPA. The second I'm hoping to tap with our hop...

In need of any tips on removing the cork/stopper from plastic carboy. Thank you.