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Does anyone know where to find quality replacement swing/flip tops. All of mine are the cheep ones that have most of the chrome plating flaking off. They still work but look very badley corroded. Any oxidizing sanitizer will very quickly corrode these cheep ones. I thought it was just a...

Ok, I have been brewing for a while but this is a first for me. I left my floating thermometer in my wort while boiling. I don't usually do this but I just forgot to take it out. Anyway the heavy-end plastic melted and the shot fell out into my wort and the whole thing filled up with wort. I...

Ok, so I planted 2 jumbo rhyzomes about 30 feet apart. I know I should have bought about a dozen but I decided to start small. So each rhyzome has maybe 4 or 5 "bines" climbing up two ropes. My question is: how many bines from each rhyzome should I be trying to grow? I know that the each...

My F--ing neighbor's lawn service weed wacked my hop vines. I had four vines climbing up ropes near my neighbor's fence. (on my property of course) They were up to about 4-5 feet. Now the vines need to start over from the ground up. Grrrrrr

I wish I had taken a picture, but I thought about it too late. Anyway, here's what happened. I had stored a good pitchable serving of trub from my last batch of stout. It settled out to about 6 ounces in a 12 oz jar. I had taken the trub from the bottom of my primary, and put it straight...

Does anyone out there know where to buy good quality swing top gaskets? I have ordered from a couple of places and I keep getting junk that does not provide a good seal. The poor quality gaskets are not of uniform thickness and are not very smooth, nor do they hold a good tight seal. I still...

There seems to be a slow starting trend with Lot number 1080961099V exp 12.2011. Is this a new batch of bad yeast? Are there other bad lots out there also? I think I will start "proofing" my dry yeast just to be safe... Anyone know what other yeast has the same properties as Danstar...

OK confession time. Today I ruined an entire 6 gallon batch of beer. I was starting to bottle my beer when I realized I had not removed my blow-off tube and bottle from my fermenter. I tap from the bottom and the contiminated water in my blow-off bottle was sucked down into my primary. This...

Does anyone have an all malt extract recipe for a beer like Sam Adams "Octoberfest" ? So far I have only made beer using liquid malt beer kits. I like the 2 can Muntons Gold kits. I am making my beer with no Dextrose sugar now and it taste great. However, I want to start branching out into...

I am new to home brewing. So far I have brewed up 6 batches using Muntons Gold beer malt kits. Anyway, up till this last batch I had no problems and my beer turned out great! This last time however I ran into trouble. My fermentation was basicly normal and was completed in about 7 days...