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I used Wyeast 3522 Belgian Ardennes - OG was 1.068

I have a used kegerator that came with a CO2 tank it has one tap. Since I am a first time kegger, what do I need to do to get it up and running? I'm thinking like replacing lines, disassembling the tap to clean and sanitize etc.

I brewed a belgian two weeks ago and used a 1 liter starter that I stepped up once. I took a second gravity check today and the krausen is still on top and it's down to about 1.020 from 1.024. I believe this still needs some time. My question is do fermentation times differ between using a...

I bottled my first batch with the help of my wife. She now knows the labor of love (and a pain in the ass) that bottling can be. She now advocates for kegging so I bought a single tap keg system (used cuz I'm frugal) but I will still bottle the stuff I want to age and keg the rest. I say...

Does this look like mold? It seems to have "spread" on top of the scoby. This is my second batch of booch. I brewed it immediately after the first batch. Would the tea being too cold/too warm cause mold to grow on the scoby? Can I "save" the scoby? During the second fermentation of my first...

I pulled the trigger and brewed it up last night. I replaced the yeast and hops and got extra hops to tinker with. Grains looked/smelled fine I don't expect much out of it. I'm going to dry hop it just to see what happens

Retired master BMW tech. Also spent some time working at a Lamborghini/Lotus dealer and fixed the Fuji Film blimp once. Went back to college, got a degree in finance and am now a behavioral investment counselor

I bought some equipment recently and the seller threw in an extract kit I think is around 8 years old based on the yeast expiration date. What can I still use and what needs to be replaced to brew the kit? It's a low gravity amber kit. DME is unopened and solid as a brick LME is in a can no...

Brown sugar bourbon bacon recipe... 75 grams of kosher salt. This is more than others might use. I prefer my bacon a little saltier. you could easily start w/ 50-60 grams 12 grams of pink curing salt 1/2 to 1 cup of brown sugar or any dark sugar. You'll have to experiment with the amount to...

I've been curing and smoking my own bacon for a number of years and have been making sausage even longer. My dad was from Budapest and making Hungarian kolbasz was something we did as a family a few times each year. I smoked 5 lbs of my brown sugar bourbon bacon just today so I can have eggs...

Smoked 5lbs of my brown sugar bourbon bacon today.

I'm curious what kinds of personalities we home brewers have in our midst. Before I first started brewing on 11/4/17 I did a ton of reading. One of the more common denominators I noticed was that everyone (maybe not everyone but the vast majority) wanted to help. So many people offering their...

I'm brewing a Persephone's Deception Pomegranate Dubbel extract kit from northern brewer. This is my third extract brew since starting this hobby on 11/4/17

Thank you in advance for reading this and offering your advice. The first stage I used a stir plate for about 24 hours then put in the fridge for about 24 hours and decanted this am. When I went to pour in the new cooled wort this am, I swirled the flask to mix up the existing yeast. (This is a...