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It's time to upgrade my mash tun so I hafta make a new manifold. I've heard that if you fill the copper tubing with sand and cap the ends it'll bend with no kinks. My current manifold ended up with a few, nothing terrible but I'd like this one to come out better. Any advice on the subject, sand...

Ahhhh am using a bucket. Was just gonna say had a couple batches ferment completely but no bubbling, but they were all in buckets hafta get back to my glass carboys.

Never glad it's over until its bottling time. It's like golf, get sad when I'm at the 6th(9 holes) or 15(18). I can alway go to the driving range or hit balls into the woods(allegory recipe planning, building equipment, maintenance, etc) but nothing compares to actually being out on the greens...

So I've been making different booze (wine,cider, mead, etc) for the better part of 5 years but have never experienced the no bubble airlock until I got into the beer game. I've looked into and have seen that this is normal but was wondering why, when still fermenting, there is no bubble in the...

Anybody else get this?I don't know what to do with myself. All that time spent planning building and brewing now it's all over. *sigh*.

It was an old ale. Ended up finding something at a local gnc type store. Needed it to raise pH. Also local market had nirvana spring water for $.99 a gallon. Thanks for all the help.

Hey got all my grains crushed and equipment sanitizing when I realized I don't have any gypsum left. My LHBS is closed until Tuesday and I have a friend who's on leave from the army stopping by to help brew who has to leave Monday. Basically I was wondering if I could go and buy gardening gypsum...

My stepdads birthday is coming up in a couple months and he's a big fan of IPAs so I figured what better gift than homebrew. Only problem, I'm not the biggest IPA fan and gave thus never looked into making one. Was wondering if anybody had any recipes they'd be willing to share. He like double...

One more thing. When should I add said sugars (molasses, brown sugar). Used honey once to boost a porter OG but was post boil and there was really no honey taste.

Awesome. Thanks for all the help. Agree about the peated. Used 4oz in a brown ale, needless to say they weren't gone very fast and I still have the 12oz of peated laying in a airtight bag in my basement.

Decided I want to try to make an old ale. I know it's a lot of pale malts of the English kind but was wondering what caramel or specialty malts I should use and what %of the bill. Adjuncts? Any pointers and tips appreciated. Thanks.

Hey got some new equipment for Easter and wanted to try it out. Havin trouble deciding what to make so figured I'd see what you guys think.. Have us-05 yeast, lager yeast and wheat yeast.have about 20 free dollars for ingredients and this is what I have on hand 1 lb carmel 60LB 1 lb carmel 20LB...

Just had one of these and really liked it. Would like to try and make one so was wondering if anybody has or has been working on a clone. It's a barleywine. Found a place to get Nelson sauvin. Here's the info from the Sam Adams website: COLOR Dark Golden, SRM: 12 ALC BY VOL/WT 10.0% ABV - 7.8%...

Awesome. Thanks.

Settle down big guy. Like I said this is about sanitation now not my godly refractometer.

It's never been wrong. Have used it and friends have checked with their hydrometers and it has been 100% accurate. Thats all neither here nor there. Want to know if my carboy will be fine if I just bleach and then sanstar it.

What about my glass carboy? I racked from plastic buckets to it. Would it be fine with an intense sanitation?

Alright. Thank you all for the help. Have all my gear once again sanitizing but am gonna stop by the brew shop and grab a new fermenter. Will let you know how things worked out after next brew but with golf season starting around here who knows when that'll be. Any more input greatly appreciated.

Bought all new hoses before last batch but still have plastic bucket fermenters, replaced spigots and bleached/sanstar the hell out of them. Should I just huck them out? Dunklewiezen: safbrew us-06 @ 68F Red: safale us-05 @ 65F Porter: saflager s-23 @ 51F

Hey am currently going through an intense equipment sanitization. Had an infected batch. I recently got a maple paddle that has no finish and was wondering the proper way to sanitize it. I have sanstar but don't know how to go about using it for fear it'll suck it up and taint my next batch. Thanks.