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Hi All, I have been trying to get my nitro setup up and running but for the life of me I cannot figure out which coupling nut I need for my faucet and shank. Any help as to where I can buy it is also helpful. Beer Shank - Chrome Plated 3" x 3/16" bore × 1

I started a yeast starter early in the week, I believe it was on Tuesday. There did not seem to be any activity as of yesterday. Much to my dismay my yeast starter had barely nudged from the starting gravity. It was a typical starter of 100 grams dry extract to 1 liter of water for roughly 40...

When I started brewing about a year and a half ago I did not consider the shape of my mash tun when I was buying one. In fact, once my grain arrived I rushed to Wal-Mart to buy any cooler I could find that would work. So I grabbed a rectangular cooler and I was on my way. At this point, I was...

So, although I realize there is much debate on the need to prevent suck back during cold crash, and up to this point I have been on the side of not caring about it, I have decided to try the balloon method of preventing 02 suck back. For those of you who may not be aware of the balloon method...

Hey all, I have been looking some more reviews/thoughts on Sabro hops. For how excited people seem to be about them I don’t see many reviews and only one topic seems to have talked about these hops. I just got 8 oz of these bad boys and I was planning on doing an all Sabro NEIPA with them...

Hello all, I decided to try my first shot at a super creamy oatmeal porter. I ended up using about 28 percent oats in the hope of creating a super creamy head. Today I took my final gravity reading and subsequent taste test and I really though the body was lackluster from what I was...

Hey all, Rebrewing an oatmeal stout this weekend and I wanted to give a shot at roasting my oats before mashing in. I know I have read that roasting your own grain can lead to some astringency unless you allow the grain to offgas for a week or so before use. I was wondering if this is the...

A short story and a quick question. I had a batch get infected and not in a good way. I have not stopped thinking about it since Sunday when I saw the disaster in my fermenter. I am traveling for work in La/Santa Monica and will be leaving tomorrow morning. I just wanted to know if anyone had...

So, I have reached batch 15 of my brewing hobby and I had a new "first." I rebrewed a recipe I used before. I was ready. I had my notes all set out in front of me and I was only going to tweak one thing. I realized that when I would enter my water profile into the EZ calculator I always used...

Hey all, I just wanted to see if anyone who preordered hops from Northern Brewer has received them yet. I am anxiously awaiting their arrival!

My buddy sent this to me this morning after brewing with me for the first time. It gave me a laugh so I'm passing it along.

So, I had a tasty peanut butter ale that I kegged about 2 days ago and boy was it delicious. A jar of PB2 and some peanut butter flavoring and this thing was destined for beer greatness. Until it wasn't. I sampled a beer today expecting an even better beer except I got the opposite. The peanut...

Well, brew number 5 for me and another "first." I just pitched WLP008 into a 1.060 OG wort. The wort was made last night and quickly dropped to 50 or so degrees. I warmed it up briefly this afternoon but it was still on the cool side around 55-58. I had my starter in my fridge for about a...

I just wanted to stop in quickly and see if anyone else has had experience with this yeast over attenuating past the 80% mark. I have a pale ale and just check gravity and it is reading about 85% attenuation. I know that grain bill and mash temps affect attenuation I am more so just looking...

I have been reading a lot about yeast slanting and it's benefits of having a greater chance of keeping a non mutated colony for further use. My question is this, if you find a colony and then you have to keep stepping up the colony to a pitchable rate won't those multiple pitches be the same...

3rd brew ever today. Same thing from the past two My Pre boil is on target, post boil is always misses its target by .01 ie est. 1.041 actual 1.031. Volume is right on target. What the hell is happening to my fermentables? I understand the logic of brewing but this seems completely...

Simple question: How much yeast should appear in my gallon growler once the 1 Liter starter has finished its job on a 1.030 wort. I know I am a little light on the wort but that was a miscalculation of using LME compared to DME. I am literally tossing and turning wondering whether or not...

I have a super sour brewing in my primary and initially I was planning on moving to a secondary for a cherry puree addition. However, I have a 6.5 gallon carboy and I have just under 5 gallons of beer in the primary. The headspace worried me and then it came to me; why can't I use 5 one gallon...

They really need a section on here labeled "I think I did something dumb" or "I'm an idiot." And with that preface, I began kettle souring my mash yesterday with l. plantarum caps and as I sat there today staring at what I was hoping to be quite the puckering sensation in a few weeks from now ...

Just set up my burner today and was very excited to use it. It's been over an hour and my 6 gallon pot of water has yet to reach my strike water temp of 165. Its cold in Northeast PA, however I still cannot imagine that it should take this long to hit the strike temp with only 6 gallons of...