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I am taking the U of O Chemistry of beer class and it has been a long time since I have taken chemistry. I am looking for someone who wouldn't mind the occasional PM to help explain certain things I might not understand.

I want to clean out my kegerator with PBW is it safe to use? Can I just leave it in there for extended periods of time? They don't have an ingredient list on the label.

Hey so I was talking to the guy at the hardware store and he said no don't use that its not safe for human consumption. So I contact the rep from benzomatic and he says that it is industrial grade oxygen but it is not for human consumption. Can I use this in my beer for aeration. I am no...

cool the hbs is far away so i only wanna do one trip is it just probably the o-ring. What is potential option two.

I tapped one of my kegs and woke up this morning to a puddle around my keg leaking from my connector. I have your standard picnic tap on my keg and its ball lock. What do i need to fix?

do we have to call animal control. Don't put your parrot in your fermentor it will kill it.

any quick fixes no but if its cold enough to freeze your lines its cold enough to freeze your kegs. Get a thermometer and check the fridge. I take it the fridge is out side? Then turn it way up and you might wanna insulate your tower better

the truckee river has great fly fishing so do many of the creeks and rivers in the area.

I took the guy who made the slight of hand beer at beer camp rafting this summer, he left us with a bottle or two it was pretty good.

Kayaking and if we get any snow snowboarding

That's where one of them is the other one is in Downtown Truckee.

Not sure if your serious or not, but its actually touching both states. The two bars are on the California side of Lake Tahoe

Anyone traveling through Truckee or Kings Beach California should come and check out Mellow Fellow. They have a really awesome selection of beers. Everything from sours to tripple IPAs

Yeah I would say next time leave it and do something along the lines of the post above. Your arm has way more cracks and crevices for bacteria then a stainless steel or plastic spoon. If you pitched enough yeast though I think you will be fine.

nice I brewed one batch of stout with dark grains in the mash, and I am going to brew the same beer by adding the grains just before I start sparging. One is going to be a month older then the other but I plan on aging the two and then doing a side by side comparison.

That happened to me alot when I bottled and everyone told me it was due to infection. Looking back it turns out I was not fermenting all the way and not reaching my final gravity. I think when I added the simple sugars it woke up what ever yeast was left and it started fermenting again.

I use left overs for yeast starters. Saves me from having to buy DME.

Check out the book designing great beers by Ray Daniels. He talks alot more about ratios for grain and which grains to use to create a certain style. There aren't any actual recipes in the book but its provides you with a pretty good guideline so you can make your own recipes. The 17% part of...

Any hop "flavor" should be boiled off. To see if you like the NB hops make a tea with them, and make sure they don't smell funny.

I use a white labs german lager yeast at those temps and it works out fine.