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I scored an upright "over - under" with the fridge on bottom for free on craigslist. The seller said is wasn't cooling so I went to pick it up so I could take it home and have a look for myself. It turned out to be a busted relay, so 2 days and $5 later I had a working fridge. I realized that a...

Guess I need to put a carcenogin warning label on my keezer. :tank:

This would be great, thanks!!

I have to second this (pun intended :D), this topic has been beaten to death from what I've seen.

I think it really depends on why you homebrew. If you do it just to eventually save $$ on beer (after you've paid off equipment) then you're probably not going to feel the desire to continue when your beer isn't quite as good as what you can buy after a few batches. I have yet to brew a batch...

I second this, its way to soon to be worrying about the taste of your beer. The yeast still hasn't cleaned up the fusel alcohols in the beer, which may be contributing to the harsh bitterness. When your beer is a couple weeks old and still has very harsh bitterness I would check you water...

You never know, you might just end up with a new favorite recipe! :D

Its good to hear about real home brewing experiments on primary vs. secondary. My last two brews I didn't rack to secondary and they turned out great. I've seen in multiple threads that racking to secondary is becoming less and less about potential off flavors from the yeast cake and more about...

My most recent IPA I swore was too malty and had an off taste. All of my friends and family that have tried it loved it, and the only critique was from a brewer at an actual brewery and he said is was a tad malty but good. This happens with my cooking too. I really do think we're our own worst...

I put my slurry in little 8 oz clear mason jars. I find that using one mason jar of slurry is good for an average gravity beer, and if the gravity is higher or the slurry is older I may pitch two jars. On my last brew I made a starter for the slurry and pitched at high krausen, my blow off was...

Thanks, I've been wanting to try out the Intertaps but I think I'll spare the $20 per faucet and just go with the ones without FC. I'm interested in the growler fill and stout attachments that you can use with these.

Putting together my keezer parts and I'm thinking about trying the SS Intertap faucets with flow control, can anyone attest to the quality of these? http://www.brewpump.com/Intertap-Flow-Control-Faucet-p/intertap-fc-faucet.htm

This would be my approach should I want to experiment with bacon. I would make the "extract" and test it out on a couple beers off the shelf similar to one I would brew. Take note of how much you add when you get the taste right and extrapolate to your final volume. Then you know you're not...

I just planted part of a root/plant that one of my friends cut off for me. I put it in the pot and fertilized/watered etc. Over the first couple weeks there was no growth and the end of the vines that were already attached started to wilt. Then one day when I got home from work I saw that the...

I love the smell of a freshly hop dumped kettle of boiling wort. Unfortunately bees do too. I want one to fall in one day so I can call the beer the "mead killer". :D

This thing puts out just over 5,000 BTUs, and a standard gas burner on a stove puts out around 7,000 BTUs. Don't worry about running this thing inside, its no different than you frying bacon in a skillet. Just flip on your vent hood if you don't want too much smoke. I would take the risk and...

I had this one on tap and thought it was nice, I even filled up a growler with it. So I guess its just a personal taste preference. The bitterness wasn't very substantial to me so if I were wanting more bitterness I'd throw in a different hop to help out.

Congratulations! :)

You could also try taking a bottle or two up to a local craft brewery (the smaller the better) on tour days and have one of the brew masters or other employees taste it. I did this for an IPA I recently brewed and got a ton of feedback. You'll find that they aren't afraid to point out...