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Hey guys so yesterday I kegged a beautiful 5 gallons of red x smash in a corny keg before kegging I ran pbw and star San in it and my beer lines to test for leaks there was non so I put it in keg with beer in my keezer set the co2 to 40 and today there is a 5 gallon puddle in my keezer. Any...

question I have a keg and keezer and I realize I haven’t cleaned my beer lines in a while I used to run pbw and starsan from the keg under CO2 does anyone have better tips though ? Please share your process especially with beer line as I want my next beer to be spectacular :)

question do you guys use a separate keg for sour beers ? I know they reccomend separate plastic fermenter and siphons but since corny kegs are metal is that really neccesary ?

does anybody have tips for getting the 120v grainfather to boil harder I’m not getting a strong boil and was wondering if there were any tips ?

anybody have any tips for removing scorch marks on heating element of grainfather ? Got some that won’t come off with the pbw

has anyone tried to boil in there grainfather with lid on ? Please let me know how it turned out and if it harms grainfather the boil is just really weak on my grainfather

I have some scorch marks at the bottom of my grainfather that won’t come up will this effect boil how do I get hard to stuff off

Thanks for the reply btw i see your in pasadena md Im not too far from there. to answer your first question the spigot is located below the false bottom that sits on top of a lip. I do have a mesh tube that attaches to the spigot can I use that instead of the false bottom? As far as the...

Hey guys I have a 10 gallon bayou classic brew kettle that I plan on using as a mash tun I have two questions. One does it matter that the false bottom that came with it sits 3 inches off the bottom? two I did a test with 120 degree water to the thermometer line and after 30 minutes temp only...

i brewed a strawberry blond yesterday with extra lite malt extract my wort ended up being much darker than i thought it would is this normal ? my beer is supposed to be 3 srm also a few hour after pitching yeast there seems to be a separation of colors in carboy the top part has is lighter while...

It was an extract recipe

so I pitched a pack and half of safale s04 after using a pitch rate calculator and my yeast ended up 80% attenuating I was confused because the manufacturer says that max attenuation is 75 what factors may have lead to this ? Is there any real consequences of over attenuation ?

How long is your overall process is 2 weeks in primary enough

so I read in John palmar book about not going to secondary unless necessary so two weeks in primary then cold crash for two days then either bottle or keg. Is this a good system in most people’s opinion? Also would there be a benefit to aging in secondary ? Why does BeerSmith say to age 30...

I’m debating about that actually are there any shortcomings between that and all grain ?