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My advice is to go straight to Kegging, All Grain, Get the Grain Mill (went from $30 per 5 gallon bath to $22), Start with Full Boil. Get the Chest Freezer or Frig to Ferment in it is WAY easier than trying to maintain the right temp any other way!!!

Our latest stuff was a Refractometer - Nice for mid-boil SG and Grain Mill - Great way to lower the price per batch!!! Happy Brewing!!

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The fermentation temp, is the temp of the water bath that the primary was in. I had a tall ice chest with the carboy in it and filled it up with water. So while that is not the temp of the actual beer, it is pretty darn close.

Hey Brewers, My first brew batch has a metallic finish in the taste. I am wondering if fermenting at too high a temperature could lead to the metallic taste. Below is pretty much everything I wrote down during the brewing process. Any ideas? I know a lot of information, but I figured...

Welcome, great wife you've got there!! After you try the Beer Kit that came with your gift look at morebeer.com. They have got over 80 different Extract Kits, most in the $28-40 range. And they are located in Riverside, so fairly local. I am getting tired of looking online and then finding...

found another deal but need to make sure shipping 4 kegs really cost $7.95

I'm looking for a good place, either B&M or online, to pick up 4 corny kegs in LA or East of LA area. Would prefer Coke style (they fit in my kegerator). Ideas?

So, I have the best wife in the whole world, she is very interested in growing Hops for my brewing and she is a rockin' gardener!!! Being new at this brewing thing, I like Porters, Darker Ales, some Pale Ales, mainly, probably want to brew some Stouts, and Lagers as well. Would Cascade be...

Any good deals on "coke" corny kegs in SoCal. Found a good deal but the shipping from Ohio killed it!

We actually have a signed contract between the five of us, for terms about selling share, use time, etc.

We got a 3 tiered gravity system with burners, 3 large (~13 gallons, so 50 liter) kettles (two with thermometers, one with a sight gauge), Oxygenator set up, 2- 5 gallon kegs, 3 smaller kegs, bottle dryer, spoons, etc, etc. I think we got a pretty good deal. Plus with 5 of us involved costs are...

Primary setup - I had an S air lock, but it kept blowing foam out the top, so I substituted a bigger tube into a container of R/O water and peroxide, which seems to be working great!

This is my first try at brewing.

Hello from SoCal. Will be starting my first batch tomorrow. 3 friends and I found a great deal on a gravity feed system for $800, couldn't pass it up for $200 each!!!!