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After I'm through my Märzen and Dunkelweizen, I'm taking a deeper dive on Czech lagers this fall/winter and look forward to having a 3.7% Czech pale lager on tap, as well as an U Fleku tmavé pivo clone at around 4.7%.

I ferment mostly in 5 gallon PET carboys, and pressure transfer out of them into sanitized and purged corny kegs. I use one of those orange caps to apply CO2 to the carboy at 1psi, stainless racking cane to 3/8" vinyl tubing to a ball lock liquid disconnect, filling keg from the bottom-up. On...

I mostly keep tasting glasses around the kegerator and the bar. I have a huge assortment of 4-8oz tasting glasses from various beer festivals. Often I'll just have one of those glasses on any week night, if any at all. Alcohol of any kind makes me tired and I have too much work to do during the...

A hard copy of the Draught Beer Quality Manual. I have the PDF on my phone but sometimes the hard copy is more convenient than looking at a tiny screen. Plus I can share it with our brew club.

I made it from a 10ft roll of 1/4" copper tubing, some 1/4" vinyl tubing, and an adapter to connect the garden hose thread of the sink adapter to a 1/4" barb. It's a $5 fitting on Amazon. I don't remember what I used to coil the tubing but based on the diameter it was most likely a tub of PBW...

It's worth having a stir plate. Whether you want to build or buy is up to you, and whether or not you have the parts already. I made mine with an old wine box, a PC fan, some magnets, a DC voltage regulator, a toggle light switch, and a 120V-12V rectifier ("wall wart"). All parts I already had...

I have a homemade mini immersion chiller I made for yeast starters and 1-gallon batches. I've used that a few times as a pre-chiller before going into my full size IC. It helped some, but not substantially. Next batch I may chill down to 100ºF and then pump ice water from a cooler through my IC...

Either brewing a NEIPA or a dunkelweizen this weekend...can't decide which. The other one will be the following weekend.

I love being creative. It's the same reason I make homemade pizza instead of ordering out, or building my welder table and cart instead of buying them. And I love sharing food and drinks that I've created.

A 0.5L Tübinger mug from Notch Brewery. Now I just need to order that Lukr faucet...

I improvised because I would've bought WLP300 but it was 95F for a full week so I had to go with dry yeast. Now I'm trying to decide what to brew with the yeast harvested from that batch. I've been leaning toward either a Dunkelweizen or a Hopfenweisse

Czech Saaz Hallertau Mittelfruh Northern Brewer EKG Mosaic

A 6oz sample glass of the hefeweizen I brewed three weeks ago. I'm very pleased with how well the Lallemand Munich Classic yeast performed. First Hefe I've brewed and was nervous about dry yeast options - I'd say this one's a winner.

There's zero chance you over-pitched Beer 2. Pulling it off the yeast on day 7 was a mistake.

I typically fill a 64oz stainless growler, but I have several glass growlers I'll use occasionally as well. If I want to leave some with somebody, I'll bottle a few off the keg. If I want to bring more than a 1/2 gallon for a party, I'll just bring a small keg with my little CO2 tank. I've...

Brewed a pilsner last Saturday, and an experimental pizza ale on Sunday Next weekend looking to brew a blueberry blonde ale with my dad, and the following weekend I'll likely brew my Oktoberfest and put it right on the yeast cake from the pilsner as soon as I keg that.

3 packs of US05. One for an amber ale this fall, the other two just to have on hand.

I ferment all my ciders with Nottingham. It flocculates very well, and in my experience it does clear very well, very quickly. I harvest and repitch Notty for many generations. On the few occasions I found myself without any, I used S04 with good results as well.

Currently have a blueberry melomel, a bochet cyser, and a Viking Blood just about ready for bottling to free up some fermenters. Planned for this year are a campfire mead (still formulating the recipe), another blueberry melomel (local blueberries again), a strawberry-jalapeno mead (with...

I've been using the free version of Taplist.io and though it has limited functionality, it works for me. We only use it when we have guests over for the "coolness" factor.