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brewzilla brewhouse, brew'n'water, and software is brewers friend- 55% ending kettle efficiency. ouch. has happened multiple times recently. thought i wasnt crushing my wheat or rye, which are in alot of my beers. but after getting a separate mill for .020 milling of those, no change...

been out of brewing regularly for a while. over past year been trying to get back at it, but the few and far between brews leave me constantly forgetting things about my system or just being out of practice. sucks. having issues with low efficiency on my OGs. i use brewers friend and...

Was making a quick batch today and went to go get some dry yeast out of the freezer. Noticed that I had some packets of Philly sour in there. Got me thinking of what a sour cider would be like. Then I recalled that there was also something about peach notes from the yeast. Trying to think...

we have soft water so cant see this being anything else but beer stone. especially as it only hits the coil where its submerged. in any case, do we have any DIY/from the kitchen/garage/etc type remedies? brewed last weekend, must not have noticed it before it dried. today i was going to...

love the nectaron and drinking the last beer i made with it i thought it could actually be good with golden promise based grist. at least, that's what i wrote down. but now that i've got a slot for that beer coming up i can't recall anything else about the idea. so for lack of any clear...

Was given a tapcooler setup with bottling rig and one for canning. Never paid attention, stuck in a drawer for ages, but now want to start using it. The problem is that while fiddling with it I pulled the extension tube out of the main body. I can’t get it back in. Anybody able to show how...

Have a three roller mill that does a solid job, but it’s a pain to adjust. I want to swap for a new mill that is 1) easy to adjust, and 2) fairly accurate, or at least reliable, settings. Preference overall is easy adjustment. Have been brewing a lot of beers with rye and wheat and my...

got lazy and let the 4-5 yeasts i keep on hand get really old. probably 9 months, maybe bit more. ran them all through starters in past week. now going to run again and try and separate the dead. my technique had always been to do essentially what i just described. one starter to pull...

$50 is cost of materials igloo 3cft fridge insulation, caulking, unistrut base easily crashes 5gals. probably could do 10gals. i'd set it at 30+/-2 for crashing. never had any issues. add your pump and inkbird and you're good to go. located in east bay. could possibly meet in east bay or SF.

have seen that folks can be successful with 5gal batches down to cold crash temps using a dorm fridge. like this one: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/metzens-mini-fridge-glycol-chiller-conversion.631203/ so that said, while i was searching for a cheap used dorm fridge, i saw a dorm...

i'll try to be as brief as possible here, but we're just starting construction on house and i wont have my typical brew setup. so in addition to lack of brewing space, i also have lack of a cold side. wife-boss is only letting me put 1.75gal keg in fridge as it isnt too much larger than a...

Looking to make a small glycol chiller, even have a free one offered to me. This is a more commercial style fridge, with no exposed evap coil up in the freezer area. Coil is in back wall it seems, with fan. Anybody taken one of these apart ? Wondering what the prospects of success are...

Kenmore elite side by side ferm fridge. Fits conicals on right, and cans/bottles/kegs on left. Runs strong, damn cold. Could also use as giant freezer if you want, it’s a beast. Located in East Bay, Oakland area.

read about it at their website. biggest benefit in our opinion is the flexibility. you can make a barrel of any wood (or liquor) you want. just buy some wood, cut it into shape, and you've got a barrel of anything you can find. cedar, juniper, cherry, apple, etc. can also soak them in booze...

got this from a distillery in bay area that had bourbon in it originally, then was a RIS keg. put two more beers in it. so now its getting light on the bourbon, heading towards neutral. put some more bourbon in it, or wash/rinse a few times and soak it with tequila/rum/brandy/etc...

new job has me project managing commercial kitchen builds. work with kitchen equipment suppliers as well as stainless fabricators. the fabricators love that i actually know a thing or two about stainless and welding/fabbing from brewery experience. owner loves me as i get a kick out of his...

Got a kegland carbonation tee for a little project I’m working on. Used a red plastic carbonation cap also from kegland and it leaks at the threads. Tried taking off and putting back on. Bit O’ keg lube. No luck. Unfortunately the carb cap is old, so can’t return it. Any advice beyond...

After complaints i voiced about some of the other options for direct-from-keg beer pours around this old forum, the folks at kegland offered to ship out a new Nukatap MINI so it could be used and reviewed. So here we go. Since the Nukatap MINI hasnt been released in US yet, here’s just some...

Hoping @mabrungard or someone else with chemistry chops can chime in here- Is there a problem with combining my finings (biofine clear) with any preservatives like SMB/PMB or ascorbic or even brewtan/gallotanans? My plan is to put them together in a small purged container and shoot them into...

just trying out fermenting in keg. wondering if there's a use for finings? typically i use clearzyme and/ or biofine, then rack off normally and keg. but wondering if that's even worth the trouble given that its all gonna sit in the bottom of the keg. will get stirred a bit when i...