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I just bought a 49oz can of Vinter's Harvest Strawberry Puree for a strawberry blonde I'm planning on making for a friends wedding next month and plan on brewing it this weekend. Has anyone used this before? My plan was to take the 2nd runnings from a Saison that will be around 7lbs 2 row / 7lbs...

I am trying to brew one batch of beer and separate the batches into (3) 4 gallon fermentations. I'm hoping I fan boil down 9 gallons in a 10 gallon pot down to 7-8 gallons, cool and distribute them evenly into 3 fermenters, then top them each off to make 4 gallons a piece. I don't have time to...

What is Briess Pale Malt compared to 2-Row? Do they mean Pale Ale or 6-Row?

Sorry if this has been answered and as always I appreciate all help received. I was wondering if when I brew tomorrow, as my wort is chilling I can transfer from primary to secondary or keg and then just reuse the yeast on the bottom of the primary. I know this is possible but I read that it...

Thanks for the reply. Will this fit over my barb since it's permanent on there? It appears it would fit over and is what is on the screw on connection but not the barbed one.

I bought the socket and took them apart for cleaning and already breezed thru keg number 1 as it's tasting much better! Keg 2 is tasting quite good even though I didn't like it much from sec. ferm. so that's a sign that was the issue. Thanks everyone@!

Also the tubing is 5/16" ID and 9/16" OD. Sorry if the solution is obvious. I'm terrible at stuff like this.

I have had my kegerator running for a few months now but when I got the gas disconnects I noticed how 1 had the proper size larger barb fitting and the other 2 were too small for my gas lines so I got a coupler and some food grade tubing to get it to at least work but now the tubing and coupler...

I had a small party this weekend and it was gone within an hour, definitely my smoothest imperial to date.

For all who wanted to know how this weird accident/experiment turned out it was great! Somewhere around my #25th batch and it definitely goes in the top #3! It was a lot like a Maibock, malty, sweet, and overall excellent at 9.2% and went down really smooth. Considering employing around a 3...

Another big note the aroma is sulfuric and very metallic alcohol smell. I didn't know if the specific bacteria could be pinpointed and advice for cleansers could be apointed. I use easy clean from carlson and iodophor.

Cool i'll take it apart and cleane it and see what's up.

That's my setup. I will be trying to get around to changing my lines first and then take the kegs apart and PBW them. i already do clean them with it and sanitize but haven't taken them apart which will be a crazy job I imagine.

Every time I put a new beer on draft if I try it int he first day or two its great but after a week it gets an astringency and the alcohol shines through. I can be more descriptive later but I was wondering if any specifics can cause this. Here's my process shortened. I run really hot water...

First runnings was 1.092 and so far second is 1.05. So even if my wort isn't remotely sour it can become sour after fermentation? It tastes like sweet normal great wort but the more I think about a sour beer that cost $40 to brew with the many hop additions I cringe so unless someone is...