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you will definitely want to add hops or it won't taste much like beer - it will be sweet and yeasty. bittering hops added early in the boil, finishing hops added in the last 5 minutes. most folks use an airlock to allow gases to escape carboy while preventing anything from getting inside to...

Hmm, starting to sound like it may not be worth much trouble for me since my kegerator is inside the house. I think at a minimum I will take some copper wire and wrap it around the tower tubing and leave a coil of it inside the fridge.

I am upgrading my keg system, my old fridge finally died. I have purchased the Danby DAR440BL from walmart.com and it should arrive soon. I have been reading the many how-to articles for building your own kegerator and this seems to be a common choice for fridges. One thing that has me...

You must make sure there are no bubbles attached to the hydrometer, and I really mean none, or you will get a false high reading. Usually this is no problem for wort since it is not yet carbonated but since you aerated with a stone you may still have some entrained air bubbles that are happily...

kcstrom, I figure you measured the final SG correctly but just as a reminder you need to make sure to measure it at the temperature specified on the hydrometer and also make sure to de-gas the beer before inserting the hydrometer. Any bubblees that stick to the hydrometer will result in...

Correct, but these are not yet available for sale. I am only following up on the promise that I would try to keep the community updated on progress and plans. Thanks for the reply,

Hello again, I have been working into the wee hours trying to duplicate my success with the real-time fermentation monitor that I have been perfecting in my "spare time" over the past 12 years (measures real-time SG, %alcohol, BRIX, temperature, pressure). I am having good success and have...

Stuck at a low class bar in Evansville, Indiana last weekend. Only options were Bud, Bud Light and the new Budweiser American Ale. I had seen all the ads and somehow totally missed that this was a new offering - I thought they were re-spinning regular Bud. It is a bit better than Budweiser...

I like the first, something about the word family in the logo doesn't do it for me. It might make sense today but will it 50 years from now? I think it is nice in the text below the logo. It will always be Hilgert beer...

ugh. something is wrong with that one! After many years of brewing I have develped a fermentation monitor that enables me to see how the fermentation is progressing, from start to finish - temperature, pressure, SG, %sugar, % alcohol all in real-time. One brew that I have made many times is...

This batch appears to be finishing up, at least 1 day ahead of the others I have done - not sure why. I re-used yeast from prior batch and it might have had super-powers or something? I have done this before and not noticed any major change in rate. Live and learn. I have been reading...

ok, so i just put in a long reply and something went fubar on me so this time I will simply attach the display of my current batch (Amber Ale, mmmm). You can see the device measures SG actual, SG corrected, temperature and pressure. I have it programmed using VB in Excel because I love Excel...