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I still worry about disturbing the grain. I own a metal fabrication shop and this was drop off a job so I have nothing in it. I use a stainless supply line for a drain filter. Ive thought about making a sparge arm but I'm too tight to buy the parts and haven't had a job come in with enough drop...

Been using a piece of aluminum foil with holes poked in it to sparge with. Today I ended up with a 13" square of 16ga perforated stainless steel sheet with 3/32 holes in it. Same as all the false bottoms everyone has. I cut a 12" dia circle out of it and I'm thinking of placing this over my...

This is why I switched to Sanke.

She knows how to brew beer and puts up with my sh#t. Plus her dad owns the farm and has the apples. Not only am I a welder but I also have a mill and lathe. You should see my 1.5bbl stainless system I'm putting together. I think using the apple juice concentrate with Potassium Sorbate is the...

8 days in and it's still working but as I said earlier I don't want a high grav and I want to keep it sweet. Well I missed the mark. It's very tart and my FG is 1.015 with an OG of 1.077. I racked into a secondary to clear it up. I lost 3qts. in trub. My thought is I'll add some campden and...

I took it to 180f set my kettle in an ice bath, put in my Carboy & pitched the yeast at about 75f. I knew I didn't want to cook it. All I really wanted was to kill any bad stuff.

Finally after weeks of trial & error on a 100+ yr old apple press I got 5gal. Here is what we did. Heat pasteurized the cider. 2lbs Light DME 1tbs Cinnamon 1tsp Nutmeg 1tsp All Spice 1oz Yeast nutrient White Labs English Cider Yeast WLP-775 O.G. 1.077 There is a strange looking foam...

I'm planning on doing a Honey Lager with Chai Tea this weekend but I'm thinking of using Nugget hops. Will the spice of the nugget and spice of the chai be too much? I'll lager till the first week of Dec. as I'm planning this for my annual Christmas party brew.

We have a local Home Brew store that sells new Sanke kegs & all the fittings. I've got just over $200 in my setup with two kegs, two connectors, hoses and some extra parts. The thing I like most is I can go to Total Wine & buy a keg for home use.

I do have a lot of trees but my wife makes apple butter, jelly, and other stuff with her mom & cousin. I'm doing one 5 gal. Batch of something she will drink and hope for the best. The graff sounds good.

I'd be interested in a recipe as well. How long do I ferment? I got the press welded back together. Thankfully I'm an AWS Certified welder & own a welding & machine shop.

I must say I'm impressed with the response. I will also say that maybe I need to re-look at my view point. Give me that adjunct and let's brew beer.

Question/Discussion... I just kegged a Black Pomegranate Tea beer on Tuesday and last weekend I brewed a California Kolsch. My wife being the constant antagonist in my life brought up the fact that most of the beers I brew don't follow the reinheitsgebot but I talk bad about breweries that...

Headed to Harbor Freight tomorrow. I couldn't make that in my machine shop for what it will cost me there.

I'm a machinist and own a machine shop and could'nt come up with a better idea than this. Headed to Harbor Freight tomorrow.

I've been a home brewer since 1996 and my wife hates the taste of beer. Her dad makes wine and a few years ago we planted 50 apple trees. This year we have more apples than we can deal with and my wife has discovered she likes Ciders but only the sweet ones like JK Scrumpy. I've found tons of...

I'm not sure I will do the volume to be able to buy direct from the manufacture also I don't think I want to spend the time ordering from each individual manufacture. I really need to find a distributor that carries a good line of supplies. I'd like to be able to carry equipment but due to...

There is a bottle shop opening here in my local area and the owner has approached me about subleasing space to sell home brew supplies. The closest store is currently about 45 minutes away but I feel bad about asking him where he orders from since he currently has the market for this area as...

I've been crawling this site for sometime but never joined till now. I have been brewing since 1998 and never really used the internet much for info until someone told me about all the info that was here. So after a few months of lurking around I have decided to join. I am a business owner in...