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Went to an estate sale and found an "Elgin Universal Concentrometer." It looks like a hydrometer which is temperature corrected but my google fu could not come up with any hits. Literally 1 hit if typed into google. I found an ebay auction of the exact one I got here. I dont care if it...

2 weeks ago I made a rasberry wit. 12lbs of grain and a belgian wit yeast strain (in a smack pack). OG ~ 1074. Fermentation kicked off fast and hard. Blow off tube was caked with yeast on the inside and the jar it was blowing into was cloudy and yeasty. Now, cut to two weeks later and I'm...

Hi all, I have a quick question about oak chips. I'm planning on making a wood aged/smoked beer, and I've got 4 oz of oak chips soaking in water. On brew day, I was thinking I would take .5 oz out of the water they've been soaking in, put them on a cookie sheet and put that on a grill...

While I am very far away from brewing anything over 5 gallons, I can't help but think about how I would start to brew bigger and bigger batches. Would it be possible to convert an old refrigerator into a big mash tun? I was thinking basically it would be an over sized cooler mash tun. Push the...

I am fairly new to brewing beer. I have made 2 batches (just kits) before today's batch. The recipe is an offshoot of a magic hat #9 clone: Mash @ 150F Sparge @ 160F .5 lbs 60 degree lovibond crystal malt 8.75 lbs 2-row pale malt 6 oz wheat malt Beginning of boil 1/3 cup honey 4.8...