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If you want to start all-grain brewing, using a march pump to move wort or water from the HLT, MLT or Kettle will save a ton of heavy lifting. Use a charcoal filter on a garden hose it you have decent tap water, as that will make filling up HLT/MLT a lot easier. For extract the above will work...

You only really save money making barleywines, imperial stouts and other "bigger" beers. A good imperial stout starts around $6 for a 22oz bottle, and goes up from there. The cost for a 5 gallon batch of imperial stout is around $35-$50 depending on ingredients, which makes 29 of those 22oz...

I have the same cooler mash tun, but I batch sparge using a braided stainless hose. My efficiency kinda blows, so I have been thinking about building a manifold like yours. Batch sparging is easy, but I would think you should be able to easily build another manifold to fly sparge.

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You could always add a ton of dry hops to it in the keg, around 1oz per gallon. That would allow you to lager it properly and give you a ton of hop aroma.

I just transferred my berliner weisse to secondary yesterday for a few months of bulk aging. I had no trouble showing activity within 12 hours of pitching. I also fermented rather high (76 degree) since I have read that lacto loves the higher temps. I'm hoping the yeast strain doesn't produce...

I use nothing but Wyeast. I've had so much success with it that I haven't felt the need to try anything else. I wash the seasonal strains like 1469 West Yorkshire and 1026 British Cask Ale, and I think i am going to make 1728 Scottish Ale my "house strain". I love the fact that I can use a...

Try Northern Brewer. They have lots of great kits and flat rate shipping. I would even suggest reading http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html , as that will give you a great walkthrough of your first batch.

Me Three. Sam Adams Winter was one of my favorites that I used to look forward to around October. The Winter Lager used to be a strong wheat bock, which was awesome. Now its like a spiced lager of some kind. I was actually angry there were so many in my holiday brew pack from costco. I...

I have used a bucket once, then immediately bought a 6.5 gallon glass carboy. As stated before, this has been beaten to death, but I use nothing but glass. I'm careful with it, and it even looks more impressive to non-brewing friends and relatives (if that's important to you).

I think the nail was hit on the head. I would soak all of your bottles in PBW/Oxy Clean, and make sure to use a bottle brush. Rinse thoroughly. I also run my bottles through the dry cycle of the dishwasher to sanitize. Keep a bucket and a spray bottle of star-san handy at all times, and...

I'm actually drinking one right now, and there is absolutely NO rauch in this beer. In fact, smoked malt isn't even in the same time zone. I have seen a few recipes for Wee Heavy that have some smoked malt, and I also have a lb of peat malt in my fridge right now for an upcoming 80 /-...

Better read the instructions - it says it is for 23 Litres of beer - aka 6 gallons. I used an entire pack on a Moose Drool clone, and had 10 bottle bombs. If you have a kitchen scale, i would weigh it, the divide by 6, and get rid (or save) 1/6th of it. That should be plenty for a 5 gallon...

I just bottled a scotch Wee Heavy I brewed a couple of months ago. There is a total of 1 oz of hops in the entire 5 gallon batch. It's seriously malty, smells like vanilla toffee and caramel, and SWMBO just told me to make sure we always have some. Its around 9%, and is essentially...

1) Move to all-grain (MLT is complete, now I just need the 15 gallon pot and propane burner) 2) Start making wine 3) Build a keezer 4) Finally figure out which ale to always have on hand - although the testing is fun 5) Perfect my Graff recipe. I started with Brandon O's recipe as a base and...

I usually use a 11" funnel with a filter built-in, and that keeps hop particles and irish moss out of my primary. It's probably not necessary since everything will drop from suspension anyways while fermenting. Also, I would keep leftover hops and specialty grains in the fridge or freezer...

I built one using a new 120mm fan from a local IT shop, and it had 3 wires - red, black and yellow. The red was hot, black was ground, and the yellow was for RPM control. Not sure what a 4th one would be. What type of connector was at the end? Molex, or a mobo 3 pin fan connector?

I just used that conversion set from bargainfittings and i'm damn impressed. I used it to convert a 70qt coleman extreme. With batch sparging, this should leave me plenty of room for bigger beers.

Use a project box from Radio Shack. I recommend the 8x6, as it gives you more surface area for larger starters. In fact, I just used mine tonight for a starter for my Baltic Porter.

This was posted on Consumerist.com today - http://consumerist.com/2010/11/black-decker-and-haier-recall-chest-freezers-because-cold-stuff-isnt-supposed-to-burst-into-flames.html http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml11/11028.html It looks like it only affects (at the moment) Haier...