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I had no idea that boiling with the lid partially on could contribute to DMS. To be honest, i had only heard about DMS until now but never looked into what it could actually do. I'll definately be brewing with my top off from now on, my boil kettle top that is :p

I bought frozen raspberries which should have been sanitized already while packaging (I think) and I had no issues what so ever with mine.

Run boiling wort through it before flame out. I use mine for everything right now and love it. I'll be buying a second pump as well to use.

When you stay up till 3 am on a weekday brewing because you are going Camping the following day for 4 days and have a hefe that needs to rack to a keg JUST so that you can use the yeast cake for another hefe. Or maybe that just means im a cheap-ass.

I used my Tan pump yesterday to transfer and recirc and I'm so very happy with it, i'm going to buy another one. I've been lifting my full keggle from the floor to my brewstand and with the Tan it saves my back.

Broke this out for SWMBO last weekend and she loves it. Had a bit too much of it actually haha. She passed it around to her girl friends at a gathering and they all had nothing but great comments on it. Only negative i heard from SWMBO was that she wishes it had more raspberry flavor, which...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YF7W22/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 They boast keeping cool when wet, and I might try using one to wick from my tub of water up to my carboy for fermentation to maintain a lower temp than a t-shirt can. Has anyone tried these? I'll probably try one with a fan...

How long would you leave it on the raspberries before kegging? I know you said 2 weeks, but many other rasp wheat beers around here say after 6 days to pull it off them. I might give them a week and transfer to Keg and condition for the second week, instead of 2 weeks on the raspberries

So SWMBO and i went fishing this last weekend and hiked down to a little dock. She is terrified of snakes, and i assured her we would be fine. Low and behold we are fishing and a large water snake comes streaking accross the water right toward the dock. She freezes, clenches everything, and...

Brewed this a week ago. Hydro sample tasted amazing without the Raspberries. Added 3lbs of rasp and racked to secondary. Will sit for a 2 weeks to soak up that goodness, but alot of the raspberries were turning white after just a few hours!

I have a keggle I installed 2 120v elements in. I have a 1500w and 2000w so i can vary the intensity of the boil. I use both to heat my strike/sparge water and i use both to get up to a boil. At boil, if i dont need to boil off much i'll just use one element, if i need to boil off alot i'll...

I slipped on some wort that was on my kitchen floor and railed my (already injured) knee into a doorframe. It swelled up to the size of a softball as well and I cant really walk on it. This all happened last night while I was brewing. Don't worry, the beer came out and is fermenting away...

This is really cool. Any issue with the 4500w element melting or warping the cooler? I was also thinking you could easily make a CPVC manifold to sit on top of your grain bed to better distribute the wort around the cooler.

So, i've been brewing for a while now, and have pieced together a 3 tier all grain system over the last year or so. I started using a stainless keggle doing ebiab, but love my 3 tier system. So here goes. I began the brew day like any other, with a nice class of homebrew (oatmeal...

Sounds good, thanks guys. I've finished my mash and fly sparge is complete. Its just sitting in my kettle covered, waiting to be boiled. Thanks for the quick responses.

So, I'm not new to brewing or anything, but i had a question. My brew day has made its way into the time I'm supposed to be going on a date with SWMBO. I've finished my mash, but will anything be bad if i wait to do my boil for a few hours? I dont want to start it and have to blow her...

Brewed this 2 weeks ago, just kegged it. My OG was 1.040, and my FG was 1.004 O_O I guestimate that to be 4.7% Tasted fantastic though.

When you've had a few Homebrews one night while talking with the Brother and Cousin over the internet and your cousin makes a comment about wanting to try homebrewing and the next day all your brother says to you is, "Dude, you would not stop talking about brewing. We had no clue what you were...

When they test for allergies, they test "bakers" and "brewers" yeast separate. Most people, like me, if allergic to one are most likely allergic to the other, but it is possible to be allergic to one but not the other. I'm not sure how they discern between the two with these tests, but that...