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In late August, my offer was accepted on a house, and in the end of October they finally let me close on the place (long story, not worth it). Moving my beer fridge meant disassembling most of it, and its been in an out-of-sight/out-of-mind state since then. Yesterday, I finally got fed up...

I purchased my 4-keg kit from Midwest Supplies, which came with a new CO2 tank. Kegs were refurbished, and in really good condition. I want to say that they threw in a set of seals as well, but I can't remember if those came from them or Keg Connections when I bought 5 more kegs. I seem to...

I'm by no means an expert, but I've been doing what you're describing (purging with CO2 and then storing) for my last few kegs. Its nice having something on reserve. Good luck with the kegerator!

Alright. Whatever I made based on this recipe was not exactly the DFH 60 clone I was expecting, however I consider what I made to be one of the best (if not the best) homebrews I've created to date. I'm 100% glad I took a "risk" on the 10 gallon batch without a 5 gallon trial first because it...

In late April, I brewed up a double batch of this, and a week or so ago, I finally got around to kegging it. Its still a little light on carbonation for my tastes, but it is quite delicious. I'm not a huge stout fan, but I do appreciate the occasional glass of stout and this will be nice to...

I just started a 10 gallon batch of this BIAB style. 26+ lbs of grain dry weighs a heck of a lot more wet. This is the most amount of grain I've used in a recipe, at least that I can recall, and it was... cumbersome. Next time I'll have my ladder out, and I'll have stitched in a rope to hold...

Aye, that's the truth, though in my case it serves the purpose of satisfying my BMC drinking friends (are they still actually called "friends" at that point), and it helps keep my beer cooler longer in this un-airconditioned house during the summer. It definitely is interesting to see how the...

This hobby is amazing. I always seem to find something new and interesting to do with this hobby. I started with extract kits, like many do, and quickly became bored with it. Perhaps bored isn't the word, but I wasn't saving money with the kits i was buying, and I wasn't getting the high...

A coworker of mine is using these for his wedding mead. He brought in a couple of cases and told us all to enjoy the beverage, so long as he got the bottles back :)

I did similar to what ultravista did. I bought the curtain panel, and then folded it in half and sewed the whole length giving me a huge tube. Then I measured my pot's height, added 10 or so inches, and sewed a line across the tube and cut it off. Bam, bag! I wound up getting 3 bags for my...

I've got somewhere between 100 and 150 bottles in the closet. I haven't used many since I started kegging, but I've starting bottling a few 6 packs from each keg to give away/bring to gatherings, and so they're slowly getting used up.

I'm in the same boat. 4-tap fridge, yet I never seem to be able to keep them all full and ready to go. I too am working to fix it though, and have recently switched to brewing 10 gallon batches with the hopes of brewing enough to keep the fridge full with a backup ready to roll. Now... if...

It was very difficult for me to take my shiny new 5# tank in and swap it for a rugged looking 5# tank. I know the guy at the place and he even was sad for me, but they only swap, not fill and I was impatient. Everywhere that filled was closed on Saturday (which is when my kit came in) so I...

Tell me about it - 3 more weeks to go for me!

That's a good point too. I enjoy the hardware aspect of brewing almost as much as the actual brewing. Now only if my wallet and I could come to some sort of agreement...

There was a period that I felt similar. My first few batches were "dump this stuff into a pot of boiling water, chill, add yeast, wait.... Beer!" Some of them included "Make a tea with these grains and then boil that" but it never felt super creative. But I view it similar to cooking...

I've gotten far more brews since I realized that I don't need to regulator full open with a crazy boil. I crank it up to get the boil going, and then dial it down. Its amazing how far I can dial it down and still maintain a good rolling boil. I used to get only 2, maybe three brews out of one...

I'm by no means an authoritative answer, but the 20 gallons of the Cream of Three Crops my friends, family and I have consumed would, at least to me, indicate that BIAB was successful :) It was my first all grain and BIAB brew session, and it was so easy that I've stuck with BIAB. Now - to...

We use 30 and 40 gallon trash cans for storing RODI water and reef aquarium, and have for years. I suspect beer doesn't weigh too much more/less than water/saltwater so you should be fine storing wort/beer there (from a weight standpoint). Be careful though. We found that the cans can be more...

Their return policy is actually pretty forgiving. I'm pretty sure that they are aware of the quality of their tools, and know how durable the tools are - and as such are willing to exchange almost no questions asked (unless it is blatantly obvious that you did something stupid like drive over...