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got some fittings to make some mods to my brew system

I had a few friends over one night watching a hockey game. The next night another game was on same friends come over. My one buddy said "All I could think about at work all day was coming over and having another one of your beers."

Just remember you can't learn everything in a day. Learning from experience is the best. Take it one brew at a time. Learn as you go. In a short time you will be surprised how easy things become. I read a lot about brewing and learned a lot from these forums. Best advice I can give-Have...

When I tell my wife I'm going to the beer store and she says "I thought you just picked up yeast yesterday?" I reply "I meant I was going to go pick up a case or two." She replies, "Why don't you just brew a batch, yours are so much better?!!"

I use a false bottom on a refurbed keg with a dip tube in the center. I also use a grain bag to help contain the hops. Now this can be tough with a IC and when whirlpooling, but I use a CFC. I used to use an IC and what I had was 2 stainless 4ways that fit inside the keg. One at the bottom...

I'm in!!

Nothing wrong with a "Little Bit Stronger Honey Brown Ale" Enjoy it!!!

I tape a magnet to the side of my starter as soon as it comes off the stir plate. Then it reminds me when I go to pitch it I tape the magnet to the bottom of my starter to keep the stir bar from going into the wort.

+1 for the blow off tube

Always need help cleaning bottles

Just cracked open a Lagunitas IPA, one more left then gotta switch to something else.

Don't mind the delay either had water lines freeze this past winter and couldn't chill my wort so I just left it outside (sealed and covered a few times over) and pitched the next day. My only problem with that was I didn't plan for it so I was up at 4:00 am transferring wort and pitching...

Reading some of these posts I feel really lucky. I live in Pittsburgh PA and have quite a few shops around. The closest is about 10 mins away and the 2nd is about 15 mins in the opposite direction. I drive past this one when I go to work. There are also two more about 30 min away from me...

When I chill my wort I use the water from my swimming pool. In the summer it can be in the 80's. So obviously I can't get the temp below the water temp, but its free cooling. So if the water is about 82 I will stop cooling when the wort temp is about 85 which takes about 10 min or so(10...

Hard to pick one favorite but my 2 favorites are the Southern Tier Pumking and the Arcadia Jaw Jacker

That won't be a problem as long as you made sure you sanitized everything good.(Carboys,hoses,etc.) Ive let my wort sit out overnight in the winter to chill and pitched it in the morning with no bad side effects. Maybe not ideal but when my water line freezes I kind of ran out of options. So...

Agree with you on that. I usually start my brew day at 6 in the morning done a bit after lunch and then the rest of the day I clean up my notes from brew day and enjoy many homebrews. I find it hard to drink anything but homebrews on brew day.

just racked 10 gallons Octoberfest into the kegs and dry hopped a rye ipa and hoping my pumpkin beer will be ready to take out of primary in about a week or so. Then hopefully in about 2 weeks ill be able to brew a winter lager.

Nice job!!

Def agree Chimay Blue is one of the Best!!! Now all this talk about Chimay I guess I gotta go pour me one now!!