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I have a couple of keezers with wooden collars. I keep one of them, a 7 cf Magic Chef, in a shed with no AC in a pretty warm part of the US about 10 minutes by boat from the Gulf of Mexico and its collar is just wood with no other insulation. Just for grins I put a Kill-a-watt energy monitor...

I recently joined Brewer's Friend and I would like to import about 150 Beersmith 2 recipes into My Recipes. I followed the instructions on the link you provided for "Migrating Your Recipes from Beersmith To Brewer's Friend" but only 1 recipe will import. I tried creating both .xml and .bsmx...

Welcome back to the cult! I started in 1992 but took about 6 years off before restarting in 2013. It's good to be back. Beersmith 2 desktop has been all the software I've needed except occasionally using an online BIAB or the Brewers Friend water additions calculator. You didn't ask about...

I vote Speidel as well. In 30 years of brewing I have gone through countless fermenters until finally settling on the Speidel 60L 5 years ago. I use a chest freezer fermenter so I built a pulley system over it to lift the 10 gallon batches in the Speidel into it. They're very easy to clean...

If you're referring to the Tilt I would disagree with the very unreliable description based on my 3 years of usage. In about half my batches I'll do an OG hydrometer reading and I have yet to take one that's more than .002 different from the Tilt's OG reading. The ending gravity readings...

What an uplifting post Jay, thanks for sharing it with us. I have lost many family and friends to cancer so it is awesome to hear of a victory. Frack cancer.

I brew 10 gallon BIAB batches usually with 25 lbs of grain in the bag. I can let the bag hang from a pulley for 30 minutes and still squeeze an additional 1/2 gallon out of it. No way I'm leaving 4 pints in the bag.

Mine goes from the BIAB bag to a garbage bag then into the garbage can. I tried composting but I think 25 lbs of grain or more each batch overwhelmed the system. I don't have a garden or friends with farm animals and when I tried spreading grain around the backyard my dogs couldn't stay out of...

I think Fat Tire is a little bland but enjoyable. However for several of my friends it is literally the only beer they buy at the grocery store and I don't get the adoration.

The few times I tried to combine LODO with BIAB I put all the grain in the bag and then underlet the pre-boiled mash water into the boil kettle. This was one of the recommendations from the LODO community. I think my efficiency dropped doing this if compared to my normal approach of adding the...

I bought my cam locks from Bobby so that thread is a giant circle-something.

I have quite a few quick disconnects on my brewing system and they all are the type where you squeeze a couple handles on each side to seal the connection. Each handle had a stainless o-ring like you'd see on a key chain and one of the two o-rings per disconnect had a cotter-like pin on it. I...

If you buy your grain from morebeer in 10 lb increments it qualifies for the free shipping if order is over $59 offer. Not to mention all their other site-wide percent-off sales.

God bless America and PBW.

Thanks all, Sláinte!

I have used one of these for a while but as I don't have an effective and efficient way to clean it I have stopped using it. Anybody have one and have a good way to clean it?

I was recently in the Sierra Nevada taproom in Asheville, NC and among the many great beers I had the Chumbo Rosado stood out. My wife who is a wine drinker primarily and just tolerates beer also really enjoyed this one. At her request we bought a crowler of it to bring home. I am even...

This was a pretty convincing test of the cold vs warm gelatin question: Gelatin Fining - Cold Versus Warm I cold crash the fermenter using a CO2 filled balloon attached to the airlock to avoid air intake, then when cold I add gelatin and later keg into CO2 purged kegs. I like to purge kegs by...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GJBBGHG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 We have had this for over a year and everyone loves it.

According to wikipedia, Charlie Papazian is 72 today so happy birthday Charlie! When I started brewing in 1992 the only resource I had was his book and I still have it.