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Has anyone else had an issue with the ball valve? I started to clean my today and the water just poured right through this. I did not notice while bottling but it might have been happening. I just put my c-ball onto it but am quite worried the next time I use it.

What are you looking for a price? I have a beer engine and been looking for a firkin.

You are most likely going to have to jump in either with both feet. Why not just open a smaller store front something in the neighborhood of 500 ft. You can pack a ton of stuff in there for that amount of space. If you start online you are really only able to get people to your stuff that with...

Hey welcome to HBT. I see you our hooked already on the hobby.

Temperature could be answer. You could also be overworking the cheese. Are you stopping once you get the shiny sheath to it? Also when stirring the curd are you going gently with a flat spoon so that you are basically only moving the curd out of the way of the spoon or actually mixing it...

How much did you boil down? If you had first runnings at 1.043 and then boiled down to 1.044 then you must not have boiled down to 5 gallons. You have to remember that if you are going into primary with 5.5 gallons then you need to adjust that in your recipe. Also just so you are aware...

Do you mean you added your sparge water to your mash or your runoff. I am thinking he sparged and is just confused. Now way you mashed with all your water at once.

We wanted to give a warm welcome to anyone from Homebrewtalk.com to come to our store's grand opening this saturday from 12-6 at 79 East St ludlow,ma. We will be having specials all day and I will have my all Columbus double IPA on Tap.

Yea 20 minutes from the time you hit that temp. 160 is really high I would try to hit 150-160 if it was me

ANyone else going?

I will be there

It really is not rocket science or a huge commitment noone is building a rocket here. A little time each day and making sure that the area you are planting can grown anything and you will be pretty successful. If you plant a rhizome in a spot where grass can't grow you are probably not going to...

I have hop rhizomes in my store. I charge 5 a piece with free shipping. I sort through my rhizomes and will typically not sell about 10% of mine because I dont feel they are in good enough shape to ship. All order come in sealed plastic bags with wet napkins in them

Amarillo and Columbus are private varieties which are impossible to get. I saw someone on a craigslist said they had them for sale but I looked into it and it was a wild hop they said was amarillo which is funny since amarillo was never a wild hop. I have chinook rhizomes in my store for...