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This is my fermentation chamber The white thing on front? It's a dehumdifier which is a very small A/C or a very large fridge system depending on your point of view. I bought two off of CL for $20. This one is the spare, showing the cold side coils (is this upside down for everyone else...

Is there a lag time for a starter like a full batch fermentation? I pitched a vial of WLP833 into a 24oz starter last night (was going to step up one more time) and have had no activity as of yet. The yeast keeps piling up at the bottom of the jar and nothing. No Krausen, no bubbles, nada...

has a nice ring to it. Just sayin'.

Or would I be wasting time? $25 on my local CL

It's about the time of year to start thinking of a Bock to get through the winter months ahead. (Winter doesn't really kick in here until after Christmas). I'm looking for something with a dead simple grain and hop bill and am settling down on something like this: 6.5 lbs Vienna 6.5 lbs...

I know there are several here and to be honest, I need a butt kickin'. I'm a 60 hour student pilot and have been working on my PPL since the end of April '08. I took a break from September to March of this year due to work reasons and just missed all of June due to family, work, weather...

After drinking a Full Moon Pale Rye Ale from the Real Ale Brewing Company here in TX I've been toying with the idea of a Pale Rye Ale of my own. I don't know that my palate is good enough to do a proper clone but I might just take a stab at something along these lines: Pale Rye Ale...

You suck. Your Blu-ray player (model BDP-S300) is perhaps the most kludgey piece of equipment I have ever owned. Let me tell you that spending 40 minutes updating firmware for this pile is EXACTLY the way I want to spend the first portion of movie night with SWMBO. Thank you, really...

It's a bit of a slow day at work and I got to thinking about the IBU contribution of continual hopping. I've seen brewsmith style printouts where the hops are divvied up in 10 or so increments over an interval, but thought there had to be a cleaner method. ****WARNING: MATH FOLLOWS*******...

I'm not looking for an exact Dead Guy clone (I'd brew Yooper's recipe without hesitation if I were--it is the basis for this recipe), but something similar: a traditional bock brewed at the low end of ale temps with a great ale yeast. My next brew will be Centennial Blonde with Pacman, so I'm...

I used my jet burner for batch #1 3 weeks ago and was underwhelmed, to say the least. It was functional, but I think I got as much heat energy from the thing on high as my kettle. I decided to fix it for batch #2. I hap[pened to have a 8" cast iron plate hanging around from an old wood...

Do typical cheap fridges (like the ones you typically find on CL) with the freezer on top only have the coils in the freezer section of the fridge? It would be nice, I think, to have a cold section up top for lagering/cold crashing and a warmer section on the bottom for fermenting and...

I know there are many of us newbs hanging around right now with our first brews in various states of the process. I've got beer on the brain :drunk: So, fellow newbs, what are ya'll doing to pass the time and keep you out of your fermenters/still too green bottles? *I'm reading more. I've...

I'm picking up an AL pot today (hopefully if they're in stock) for my first brew. I know I need to boil water in the pot for ~30 min to build up the oxide layer, but can I use that water for my brew? Or should I play it safe and use fresh?

And Hello. The last thing I need, according to SWMBO, is another time consuming hobby (I'm a workaholic student pilot with an active truck restoration who rides motorcycles and roasts his own coffee while trying to find time to SCUBA dive, etc...:o) So why not brew beer? It's not like I'm...