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why are you even considering buying pots? why not go the keggle route? I see your in long island. I know any bar in NYC would easily be able to get me an empty keg to convert over. Save yourself a lot of money and a keg is 15 gallons so your good to go.

just got back from lowes in Brooklyn. I paid $60 for $50 of 3/8 tubing. my brew shop had the 3 clamps I needed for $1 a piece and the garden hose connector for $3 and another $3 for the connector to add to my faucet to be able to use the garden hose total cost $79. I've seen the 50 foot...

yeah, diy is a lot cheaper. if you go the 50' route premade they are over $100. The pricing on the tubing does vary but if you search around it can be had for a reasonable price. I'm a newbie but in my limited experience in buying ball valves and other little things, when I go to a mom and...

On this same vein, are there any specific types of aquarium pumps that I should look for or stay away from? I'm not a total hipster or anything but I kinda have an issue with running water like that for so long, seems just as easy to fill the sink with ice packs and water and recirculate...

just bought my cooler at home depot last week. I used their website and checked which store had them in stock. You could also try asking around to family members to see if they have a cooler you could borrow or have and offer to buy them a new one when the warm weather gets here. As for your...

what I didn't realize is how much syrup my gf puts in her oatmeal! I had bought a bottle from when I did the first batch and had plenty left over...so I thought. I went to the store and bought what I thought was enough and then got back and discovered how much she had used! Thanks again...

thanks guys, meant to put a link to the recipe in case anyone was interested http://hopville.com/recipe/1120391/home-brew/chocolate-maple-porter This was taken from www.brooklynbrewshop.com I bought their book for my tablet and it seems cool. they've got 52 recipes one for each week of the...

Newbie here, doing my first 5 gallon batch. Previously only done a 1 gallon kit from brooklyn brew shop which is an all grain kit. I didn't even know what an extract kit was until last week! Anyways, the 1 gallon kit came out great and I was hooked and went for a 5 gallon setup. I liked the...

btw, if you go the kegerator route, don't even bother bottling any. too much of a hassle plus if you need bottles it's a wedding, making sure you get you get the bottles back vs. them ending up in the trash is a pain that you don't want to deal with. Your biggest issue is going to be...

This is a cool idea but you got a big undertaking in front of you. IS your sister going to help finance this? Get them to buy the equipment and you cover the grain cost and labor. I agree with the others, cap it at 4 or 5 beers top and do them on a color scale, light to dark. If you have...

cost is what you pay, value is what you get. an hour and a half drive is gonna use a helluva lot more than $7 worth of gas

Am I a bad guy for 1. Using CLEAR glass bottles that are 2. 25 oz and 3. have screw tops? I got my first kit as a gift and didn't have a chance to source a capper but needed to bottle my stuff so I went and got some spring water bottles. dumped the water out of them into a larger pitcher and...

no, get it out of there into something else IMMEDIATELY. I'm a noob and ran out of bottles. I used a knob creek bottle i had kicking around with the cork top. the next day the top blew off! fortunately it was underneath my desk so it didn't cause any harm. Now obviously if your tequila...

similar thing happened to me with the brooklyn kit (seems like a good kit, this is my first time brewing!) I got the siphon working and it pushed the sanitizer out of the tube and beer started flowing. then i had an issue bottling (thats another story) but accidentally poured about 20 oz of...