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perfect, thats what i need to know. thanks!

I've got a situation where i have too much beer.... Terrible I know :) 2 cornys on tap, and 4 that are full and were shortly purged with co2 and are sitting in my basement usually I just do the sit it and forget it method of carbing. But instead of waiting for my beer to carb when I...

Thanks for the advice guy's. As far as adding oak to the beers with brett in them, should I bag the oak chips/cubes up and hang them from the top of the keg? I'm worried that oak at the bottle near the pickup might cause issues once the beer is ready to be served?

I believe that brett and lacto don't need O2, Not sure on that though.... One of my beers is a Berliner weisse. I'm hoping that the Lacto doesn't need it and I can transfer... I also toyed with the Idea of taking the intake ball valve off my keg and putting an airlock on it, and using it as I...

Bump, hoping someone has some thoughts/experience with this

I've got 3 different 10 gallon sour batches going right now. They are all coming up on the 2-3 month mark and I was hoping to free up some of my fermenter real estate by racking them into kegs and let them sit in there for the remainder of the time. I have many more kegs then carboys/buckets and...

So I'm assuming I just bring some water to 180 degrees and then put the contaner of honey in the water for a few minutes? or is there another (better) way of doing it?

So, My Idea was to add some honey to the secondary of a lambic I made. Its been about 2 months in primary, and is starting to really show some promising flavors. I've got a great local source of honey, and the stuff has phenomenal character compared to store bought garbage. I figure the honey...

this might sound like an odd question, but, I was grabbing a new Scotch Brite sponge (coarse green on one side, and yellow sponge on the other) from my kitchen and I noticed on the packaging that it says (do not use on stainless appliances, may scratch) Should I be conserned about it putting...

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