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Is a welded tangential inlet drastically better at creating a whirlpool than using an orthogonal side port with a bent tube (like a pick up tube)?

I made and kegged an oatmeal stout and it pours with a nice head. Unfortunately the head disappears in under a minute. I'm guessing I had some residual soap in the keg... Haven't had this happen before. Is there anything that can be added to fix this? Any tricks to try?

Does anyone know where I can buy a rubber band that is 2 inches wide and easily stretchable to go around the lid of an 8 qt stainless steel pot? I am looking for something made of silicone. The only thing I have found that works so far is a latex resistance band for exercising. I am looking to...

I've tried searching and reading up on this, but I can't really find the discussion or answers I'm looking for. I'm trying to decide which is better... crashing in the fermenter and transferring cold beer into the keg, or transferring the beer warm. On one hand, I can see having the beer...

Hey all, I'm trying to decide on some new equipment and am now thinking I should purchase the flexibility to do 10 gal batches in case I ever want to. What do you all think? If I interpret their site correctly, Blichmann suggests using a 10, 15, and 20 gal vessel combination. For 5...

I've lived in a 2 bedroom apartment in LA for the last 5 years, and just moved to Georgia where I now own a nice big home with a basement and a garage. Now that I have some more space, I'd like to move from my 2.5 gal batches to proper 5 gal batches I've already addressed my biggest need...

Two weeks ago I brewed the ordinary bitter recipe out of BCS and I was just about to bottle it, but it tasted god awful... super sour. It also had this really weird looking film on it (see pic). I've brewed about 20 batches using roughly the same technique, and only once did I have a...

So I'm brewing the dunkelweizen in BCS and it calls for a 90 min boil and a 60 min hop addition of Hallertau (1 oz, 4% AA in 5 gal). Well... I guess from force of habit I tossed in the hops at the start of the boil. Do I go for the full 90 min (less DMS, more bittering), or cut it off at...

Does anyone have a source of information about how many calories are removed by filtering homebrew? I know most people don't typically care about this, but I have become pretty curious about it. Most homebrew calorie calculations involve only the og and fg of the beer, thus taking into...

Hi guys, I need some help... the quicker the better. I just went to bottle up a beer that's been in the fermenter for 20 days (all primary). It tastes so strongly of green apple I am wondering if it's even worth bottling. Any chance conditioning it for a few weeks will fix it? I've...

Hi all, I've only been brewing a couple months. The first batch I bottled (a porter -- OG 1.070 (overshot the intended 1.065 because I didn't know my efficiency)) I used the NB calculator to determine the amount of table sugar to use for priming. It suggested using 0.43 cups of table sugar...