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that is a very good idea...thank you!

thanks a lot for the feedback everybody. i guess i'll give the LME and grains a whirl (both vacuum sealed), but will use some of my home yeast and will probably buy a bunch more hops to beef it up / blind my mouth to potential nastiness what's the harm?? will let ya know how it turns out

oh **** it's on

hey guys thank you all for the input, and I appreciate your thoughts on this. I think doing just a few thicker bottles with the starter sounds good, and that way if its awful i don't waste all 12 L of this batch. I consent to this experiment fully knowing, from your feedback, that at best it...

hey - I got a 5 year old Brewer's Best American Pale Ale kit on this free give-away community group thing I am in...figured it was worth grabbing at least for the 60 or so bottle caps. Before I toss the extracts and hops and grains...is it worth saving any of it? Maybe just to use in yeast...

hey guys - I made a simple Belgian pale amber ale yesterday, and pitched a continental ale yeast for primary fermentation. since it was so simple and relatively small (12 liters, about 3 gallons) I was thinking about trying my luck with catching some bugs outside my house, but chickened out and...

Soooo, I am an idiot. I brewed a delicious recipe I found on this site: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/cardamom-lemon-wit-beer-380511/ It's a cardamom-lemon wit brew. However during the cooking process, I totally forgot to add the lemon. I didn't realize until AFTER I kegged it and tasted...

Thanks everyone for the help and words of encouragement! Yes, I do believe I am getting gas in the keg. There is no pressure relief valve on my corny, but when I disconnect the gas line and use a small screwdriver to push down on the poppet, gas comes out. Also the gauge is reading that there is...

**** you're right, Frau, I meant the post not the poppet. The post is really screwed on tight, I can't get it off. I know I'll need to, to properly clean everything out. So I will try liquid wrench or wd40 and see if that works. And yea, I know about the bleach thing, but I was desperate and...

Thank you both for your help - I think you're right that the poppet and dip tube got clogged with the hops. I transferred between bottling buck, back to keg being more careful about filtering. I also tried cleaning out the poppet and dip tube with bleach water, though I wasn't able to...

I have been brewing for a few years, but am new to kegging beers. I bought and fixed up a kegerator and put the QD conversion kit on so it would fit a corny keg. I have been carbonating my newly brewed IPA for about 4 days at 12 psi and 39 degrees F (according to what I read, saturation over...

Thanks DrewschBag, and great name. The keg is holding gas, and there don't appear to be any leaks (after i turn off the switch, the pressure remains constant which i take to mean is not leaking at all). I think it may be an issue with the tap/tower. but i don't know so i am hesitant to buy a new...

So I bought a used kegerator that had a CO2 system leak in the hopes to transition from bottling to kegging my homebrews. I am totally new to the kegerator system/kegging, and I am having a pickle of a time trying to figure out how to get this keg working. I bought a new regulator and got a...