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After hand-cranking all of my grain for over a year, I've finally decided to take the plunge and motorize my grain mill. First off, I needed a stand. I've been down the road of building things before, and it never turns out as cheap as I'd like, so I started poking around classifieds ads to...

I was given a plastic Dalex stout faucet for free from a co-worker, and I'm having some trouble getting it set up. It's got some kind of a quick-connect for a hose built right into the end of the faucet, where it looks like you just push the hose into a hole and some barbs on the inside hold it...

I'm taking a keg to the cabin this weekend, and I'm looking for a way to keep it cool-ish. It's not going to be sweltering here, I live pretty far north. I've decided on some kind of a garbage can/insulation/ice/water setup. My question is what would be the most effective way to use the...

I made a big barleywine sort of beer recently, and the recipe calls for dry hopping with 2oz of EKG and for the beer to be aged for 8 to 12 months. Should I dry hop for the regular two weeks, bottle, and age in the bottles? Should I dry hop for two weeks, rack off it and age it in the...

So I've been putting together a keezer, and the last thing I needed was a co2 regulator. As luck would have it, a buddy of mine had an old one kicking around he was willing to give me. Only problem is, the low pressure gauge is busted. Still seems to regulate co2 pressures just fine, but just...

I'm a recent owner of a Monster Mills MM-2, and I'm trying to figure out the crush setting. In this picture I've crushed 4 handfuls of grain at 4 different settings. Starting at the bottom and moving counter-clockwise, the gap was as wide as I could get it, then somewhere in between twice...

I'm planning on ordering 6 or 7 lbs of hops from hopsdirect in the next week or two, and I'm looking for advice on what varieties to order. I'm pretty new to brewing, have a few batches under my belt, but still trying to keep things reasonably simple. I brew about 10 gallons split between...

A friend and me brewed a double batch of Orfy's Old Speckled Hen Clone recently. We did the two batches one after the other on the same equipment following the same recipe. Hit mash temps spot on. I forgot to read the recipe and we ended up only mashing for 60 minutes instead of 90. English...