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OK, I guess I'll be the one to drop the turd into the punch bowl. Why wait so long? I let my bitter sit in the primary for a week, max, but I always make sure to have a lot of good live yeast in there when I pitch. High kreusen starts in a few hours and in about a day and a half the yeast...

This is what I do and I've gone 3 to 4 generations onto the yeast cake with no noticeable differences. You could stick your pinkie out when you test each batch and probably find some kind or differences, but I drink mine in a beer glass with my pinkie in, so it works fine. One caveat; after...

It's old and it's ugly, but it stays cold. The only catch is that you have to come get it and I need you to help me put another one that is broken down by the curb for the trashman.

I got the $25 Chinese one off of Ebay and I've never looked back. You just need a couple of drops to do the measurements.

Every keg is going to have a different amount of sediment, so 1/2", 3/4", 3/8"....who knows? Just accept the fact that the first pour or two will have some sediment. The other thing is that once you get the sediment out it is gone. If you leave it down there and then move the keg it goes back...

Remember one thing. The more stuff that goes in contact with your beer, the more chance you have of infecting it and the more stuff you have to sanitize. I used an aquarium pump setup many years ago and I finally went back to just letting the wort splash as it goes into the fermenter. I also...

I can't tell if this is a serious thread or not, but the correct term for a female brewer in olden times was a "Brewster". That is where the surname comes from.

When I say that I'm new to this I mean the beer engine. I've been brewing for more years than I care to remember. I've got another fridge and a regular two-two tower for my regular beers, but I've always wanted to make real ale and use the beer engine. I guess I'll ask the question this...

OK, this is all new to me, so if I ask something stupid then I hope I get a pass. But, isn't the beer in the keg under pressure from the carbonation? Is there a maximum pressure that you can have in the keg?

I hooked up my beer engine to a corny keg, to test it out and to give it a little cleaning before using it. I've never used a beer engine before, so maybe I did this wrong. I put about a gallon of faucet temperature water into the keg and pressurized it to about 8 PSI. I connected it to the...