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I just had to post a pic of my boil setup. My mash tun is leak free and held temp for 90+minutes in my test run:rockin: I'm doing Edwort's Kolsch first and then Haus Pale the next brew. Anyone ever do a Kolsch with Saaz? I am planning to follow Edwort's recipe but I do have Saaz on hand and...

Is it crushed/milled? I'm not sure if that matters.

I found that the local hardware store switched to a new distributor for water sales which brought in these beauties for $9.99 (including refill): Pretty pumped as they are PET (or mobius loop 1) and will fit in my fridge to allow me to lager:ban:

Does anyone do this? Basically (if I understand properly) you put your fermenter in a larger bucket of cool water with a wet t-shirt over it and the evaporation of the water from the shirt also cools the fermenter and, by association, the wort. I was thinking of trying this with a Festa Brew...

That is all. Cut my bottling time in half with no hassle.

I just picked this one up: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/WINCO-ALST-50-ALUMINUM-STOCK-POT-50-QT-WIN-WARE?item=300671388709&cmd=ViewItem&_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D4%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6843479901530224696 Pretty good deal IMO since the best I could do...

Picked up a 50qt. Aluminum on ebay for 80 including shipping.

I am looking forward to trying my hand at AG using some of Edwort's recipes (starting with his Kolsch made with Saaz aroma hops) but I'm confused by whether or not the setup I'm eying will work well. I was looking at a 32qt (8Gal) Turkey Fryer setup (pot and gas burner). I think that the boil...

Looking at this fridge on Kijiji. Its a 4.5 Cubic Ft. G.E. Mini Fridge. I know a great deal of mods would be needed to fit 2 cornys and a small C02 but I was curious if anyone has built with this model. It seems like it should be simple enough to pull the door hardware off and shave some foam to...

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Thinking of doing a festa brew continental pilsner without lagering :o I can easily accomplish the correct temp range for a saflager s_23 brew but have no lagering equipment.

My suspicion is that I need a 29mm bell for my bench capper. Any thoughts?

I put up a batch of Edwort's recipe last night but noticed I am 850ml short of 5 gallons. I also used 2.2 lbs of corn sugar instead of 2lbs. My questions are: 1) will it be unbearably strong? 2) can I add my missing bottle of juice after work today?

Cracked open a festa cream ale from a grolsch bottle after a week and it is almost flat. I know 1 week is not much time, but I put 3/4 cup of dextrose/2 cups boiled water in bottling bucket and swirled in while racking after cooling. The instructions in retrospect call for 1 to 1 1/2 cups...

Just wondering if a tweak to this recipe will be palatable 4.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM) Dry Extract 44.4 % 5.00 lb Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 55.6 % 1.50 oz Challenger [8.30%] (60 min) Hops 23.2 IBU 0.50 oz Cascade [6.00%] (30 min) Hops 4.3 IBU 0.50 oz Cascade...

Found the problem. The caps were not the same. They were a goldish-silver and were ever so slightly bigger than the silver. You can't even tell until you put one inside of the other. Thanks for all the replies!

See the above post... I did try with pop tops... Thanks for helping me troubleshoot people!

They are twist off, but so were the entire previous batch and none did this. I also tried it with some pop tops bottles and only successfully capped one. Also, I have known many people to bottle homebrew, all on screw offs.

I bottled my second batch and encountered a strange problem. My caps had a really hard time staying on the bottles. This did not happen once with my first batch.luckily I had cleaned enough Grolsch swingtops to save the day. I guess my question is what could the problem be? Here are some...

@ darksin - sounds just like my bottling procedure otherwise (just foregoing the secondary) @jkaylor - Not the first time bottling, but the first time considering foregoing the secondary. I'm just wondering if there are other tricks I should know about before proceeding that will help clear my...