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Most homebrewers get a small fridge that fits their fermenter. They connect a temperature controller (I. E.i. Inkbird) to the fridge with the probe on the fermenter. This holds temperature very well. If you find a used fridge it can also be quite cheap. Another option is a swamp cooler. This...

Yes, go for it! If you are passionate about it why not jump head first? I went all grain right away and never looked back. Just a FYI I started with a piecemeal diy brewery which consisted of mash tun cooler big boil kettle and propane burner. Eventually Graduated to an all in one system...

Hey just to come back to this. I burped my keg over the course of the last two days. Rehooked up to gas and poured my first clear pint from the tap this evening. It's still quite bubbly so it was definitely over carbed. Thanks again everyone for the input!

Exactly this. Thanks guys! So my cobra tap is a double tap head. I hooked the beer up to the other faucet (which is a dedicated soda water faucet) and the sane thing happened. I then further opened the keg dipped my sanitized autisiphon in there to pull out some beer and instant foam as well...

Its a cobra tap so it's a little hard to get in there, but I when I clean the lines I run it through the taps so I gotta believe they are clean too.

Hello HBT! I need your help to problem solve my foaming issue with my kegerator. This is after using my kegerator for about 2 years and it is the first time that is happened to me. When I pour the beer nothing but foam comes out and when the foam settles into beer the beer is mostly flat but...

M suggestion is just to make a great heffewizen on its own. Don't bother with pasteurization. Add in your cherry syrup when serving to your glass. This way you can have regular or cherry flavored heffewizen. And you can play with the syrup a bit to find the best ratio.

Fair enough, I'm not in USA. Those things are much cheaper where I live... Maybe you could find them used on the cheap?

CO2 tank, regulator, some hosing, fittings and a carb cap? Could be used to carb up anything... Probably cost less than a soda stream system....and you're halfway to a kegging system :-)

Pay toilets are all over in Europe. Especially at McDonald's and other fastfood restaurants. Even in malls it's common. You pay some money to go through a turnstile into the bathroom. In the country I live sometimes there's a person collecting the money at certain public toilets.

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Could be kettle additions too.

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I didn't know this was an issue... I have the crappiest, cheapest spray bottle from ikea. Has held a star San solution for a number of years now without any problems ....

Dear US-05, You know you're the workhorse in my brewery. And I give you all the love when others be throwing shade at you. But to have a nearly 48 hour lag time? Why do you got to do that to me? I hear you bubbling away now, so we're all good, but I don't need a scare like that again...

Dear rice hullls, Thank you for making my second consecutive brew day free of stuck sparges. I was fortunate to finally find you at an online store in my country if residence. You've reminded me of how fun brewing can be without the added 1-2 hours of extra lautering time and frustration. I'll...

I've gone down this rabbit whole before. I'm not exactly sure what you have in mind but those coolers will not hold liquid directly in them and function. My initial thought was to just dump the wort in it and set a temp controller bypass all the glycol equipment.... But I'm guessing you don't...

Ok so you are aware of the specifications of the beer, the judges will know nothing other than the style. So don't let all the details scare you. How does it taste? Can you tell it's low abv? Or does it drink like an American Pale Ale? Don't let the details interfere with what is actually...

There are diminishing returns with large grain bills. Your efficiency will tend to go down as you add more grains past a certain point. My advice is to either use extract to make up for the missed gravity (if it's less than 10% I can't imagine it would make a taste difference). Or finish with...