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I apologize for adding questions on top of questions. While still trying to put a list together I came across these two pieces of hardware: The first is like $30 and the second is $199. I also found this: I gathered from the last few replies where everyone said they just set their equipment at...

Great guys, thanks. That helps a bunch.

Good information - thank you. Seems like I'm constantly buying equipment to do stuff I've never done before, and since I've never done it, knowing what to buy is a challenge. I do have one question. (well okay, I have thousands of questions). But the one that immediately comes to mind is: I...

I was looking at a 1/6 barrel this morning. I guess because I haven't heard many people mention them I just assumed they weren't a reasonable option. I'll definitely take a closer look. https://www.kegoutlet.com/hoses.html This is just one of the pages I ran across. I was more concerned with the...

I resisted as long as I could and have finally decided to venture into the world of kegging. I bought my first corny keg last week to use as a secondary fermentation vessel on a festbier I just brewed. That opened the flood gates and caused me to stop fighting it and coming up with excuses for...

Yeah. Seems like I might have been panicking for nothing anyway. Thinking now I might not even want to add oxygen to my wort at all. http://www.beertools.com/html/articles.php?view=245

I hear ya. I understand making money and making a profit, I have a hard time with greed and gouging. There's a lot of sentiment thrown around about how consumers should be loyal to this or that for some nonsensical reason. The LHBS down the road sells a 2 micron diffuser, 1/4" line and the...

I love big Belgian ales. My favorite beers are tripels. I've tried to brew a few quads and several tripels in the past and never hit the target numbers I was aiming for. I haven't tried to brew anything big in awhile until I can get my mashing technique squared away, (but that's another story)...

I've put off buying the stuff to oxygenate my wort because of cost only. It's not that it's a huge investment. Compared to other aspects of this hobby it's relatively small. My issue is that the cost seems to be insanely, ridiculously, unconscionably, stupid high for what it is. At a minimum...

OK. Just to get my head around everything. Primary until fermented, diacetyl rest, then rack to keg. At that point the beer is done (correct?). At 34 degrees the yeast isn't doing anything else. I know "lager" means "to store." So after the diacetyl rest the beer is simply being stored at 34...

Until now my home brewing has been primarily bottle conditioned ale. I brewed a couple lagers, mostly just to say I brewed them. But for the most part, everything I brew, everything I read, and 99% of what I drink is ale. So when I do get the urge to brew a lager I have to go back to square one...

Good to know. It's a 6 gallon batch. Everything appeared to look okay to me, but with my limited experience brewing lagers I always have that uneasy feeling I'm overlooking something. Like I said, for piece of mind I feel better getting the thumbs up from someone with more experience.

I haven't done many lagers and the ones I have done were . . . well . . . I usually use the Brewersfriend yeast starter calculator; it's just what I started out using and never saw the need to switch. The yeast (Wyeast # 2206 Barvarian Lager) is 2 weeks old. According to this site that's 90%...

@TxBrew One of the better features of a brewery

The higher the abv and IBU's, the higher the rating on beer rating sights. To misquote Ray Daniels, "The craft beer community simply traded the tyranny of the American Adjunct Lager for the tyranny of IPA's." I joined the craft beer revolution late - I missed the boom. When I got interested in...

For all the breweries and/or brew pubs I've ever visited I can probably think of 2 or 3 that actually stick out as making an above average impression on me, (for whatever reason). Of the hundreds and hundreds of beers I've tasted in all those breweries over the years, I quite honestly can't...

Umm... yeah... that's why. HA HA HA ;)

Why are so many people jumping into the brewing business in record numbers? Is it because there are sooooo many people out there who truly and whole heartedly believe that it's all about the beer . . . NOT the money? I doubt it. The criticism leveled at the big corporate macrobrewewies is...

Glad to see this posted, (not sure why). It's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels utterly spent after a brew day. On top of being fat old and out of shape, I also have severe back issues. At the end of a brew day I'm physically and mentally exhausted, but the real fun comes the two days...

Yeah, I'm not sure about the water thing. I hear a lot of people swearing by it - but I'm not sure it makes a difference. If I'm not mistaken time is really the only factor. According to everything I've been reading (and yes I am WAY overthinking this) - for a male my size considered a "frequent...