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Well...in my very limited experience with pH meters...they're all quite fragile creatures and sensors don't last very long. Which is why I'd never buy another pH meter that didn't have a replaceable sensor. Unlike all of our other brewing equipment that will last quite a long time...reading pH...

I guess I recirculate faster than you guys do. I've tried the "lay the hose on top" method and I got some serious channelling around the edge. I've moved on to the brewhardware Locline stuff and that works a lot better for me. Not perfect, but a lot better.

If you think that your basement temps are stable, you're probably wrong.

Fermentation temp control is key. The sooner you bite the bullet and invest in a chest freezer and a temp controller, the less money you're going to waste on sub-par homebrew. Campden tablets get rid of chlorine and chloramine. If you use municipal tap water, buy a bottle of campden tablets...

"Hey, I'd like to build a semi-automated electric brewery in my basement, but I have no experience and I don't wish to really learn how to do any wiring and I'd like to spend no more than $200. Can someone give me full instructions on everything I need to buy and where I can buy it all the...

Yes, I had a similar experience. I had 5g of an Irish Red that was sitting in a plastic sanke sixtel in my basement, sitting outside of my kegerator for about six months. One day I noticed that beer was leaking from the sanke tap seal. So I hooked up a sanke tap to it and...WHOOSH! The beer...

No, I haven't had a 99 before, but I do get in the 90's on occasion. The problem with these programs are that they're using a generalized PPG for the various grain types. The grain that you used might have a higher PPG than what the program is estimating for that particular grain, so you're...

The Siebel Institute sells beer sensory tasting kits. Various concentrated off-flavors that you add to a base beer. Not cheap. But the kits are designed to be used with about 10 people at a time, so if you all go in on the kits, not that bad. Brew clubs are made for this type of thing. Find...

This article is pretty bad. Newbie homebrewers beer sucks mostly for the following reasons: 1) Fermentation temperature was too high. A lot of new brewers think that their 65° basement is perfect for fermentation, but they're wrong, mostly because they never bothered to find out if the...

Well...if there was no discernible taste difference then I doubt it would be on the market, so...it has to do SOMETHING for the whiskey. Good or bad is subjective. Some malt roastiness flavor added but that would be about it. "Does it justify the cost?" is also very subjective and there's...

Pumpkin Ale - All Grain recipe kit

I started out with a Victoria grain mill for $50 and after spending a couple of hours tweaking it with various hardware improvements it worked pretty good for me. My only concern was that I wasn't getting a consistent mash efficiency, so I decided to upgrade to a Monster Mill MM2-Pro. The...

The trub carboy being preferable to the non-trub carboy. So if anything you're making your beer (somewhat) worse by trying to get the trub out.

No. They really do not care. Unless you're selling it, you can make however much you want. No one is coming to investigate unless your used grain pile gets so large and smelly that the neighbors start to complain.

Small thinking. We're not here to contribute to threads. We're here to contribute to society as a whole.

No, it's not going to be significantly different.

Normally we meet on the second Wednesday of every month, but in November the place we normally meet at is closed due to it being Veteran's Day. So this coming meeting will be on Wednesday, November 4th at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub.

And conversely, the "you and everyone you love will be murdered by glass carboys in your sleep so don't even think of having them in your house" people.

If you had gotten your hands on an original Tapper game, then I would have been TRULY impressed.

Other people may be narcissistic, but I've been given the title of Ultimate Beer Judge. There are no greater judges of beer than ME! And now, my judgment on IPA's. They... are... GOOD.