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Anyone care to give me some feedback on this water profile I'm looking to create & use for a Russian Imperial Stout? Grains: 17 lbs Maris Otter 1.5lbs Roasted Barley 1 lb Special B 3/4 lbs Chocolate 1/2 lbs Carapils Ca Mg Na Cl SO HCO Cations Anions 44 3 44 59...

:ban: I'm so happy! The last 3 years of brewing paid off with my first BOS & I wanted to come back here to where I gathered a majority of my basic knowledge of home brewing (well, here & from John Palmer's "How to Brew") to thank those here for all their advice. Thank you very much! For...

A couple of the ones I get annoyed by: "What are you going to name your beer?" After telling someone I entered a competition at a festival or fair: "Oh, I'll be there! Will they be serving your beer?"

As I look ahead & begin to plan for upcoming competitions, I began to consider brewing some beers as early as possible. I'm relatively new to brewing & haven't strayed far from ales, so I wanted to see if anyone could shed some light on which styles of beer I could brew, keg, bottle, & cold...

After buying a brutus 10 setup, I made some modifications, recently installing a honeywell gas valve, pilot, & thermocoupler. Having never plumbed gas before, I was a little apprehensive, but I'm still alive to talk about it & there weren't any leaks. A friend is building my temperature control...

I purchased a Brutus 10 type stand with gas & burners setup, but one of the provided 32 tip jet burners has a crack & is leaking gas. It needs to be replaced. The vendor I bought it from is a real piece of work & not surprisingly, he hasn't replied to my request for a warranty or even a...

So I've been going bonkers on buying things for my brewhouse & next on the list is a grain mill. It looks like everyone really likes the Monster Mills. I'm about to pull the trigger & setup a mill table with a motor as well. Any advice or suggestions before I get too far into it? My pops has an...

I don't & I think I bought the wrong temperature controller... I bought this: "Control Products TC-9102D-LV Dual Stage Low Voltage Digital Temperature Controller" Here is the ad: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0057APQPC/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I planned on using this to control my...

I'm starting to get my system a bit more dialed in since I went from extract to all grain, but I had a question. My MT temperature probe sits in the center of my grains, letting me know what the core temperature is reading. I also place a probe at the top of the grainbed to let me know what...

One of my jet tips has a leak where the tip screws into the cast iron. The jet tip or the cast iron's threads are stripped. I tried some yellow pipe sealant from Home Depot & haven't tested it yet, but I doubt it's going to hold because the tip is still noticeably loose. Is there anything else...

15.5 gallon Sanke keg (lid already cutoff) 3/8" - 50 foot copper immersion wort chiller 24 glass bottles Deal?

Very interesting builds here. What say ye?! Counterflow chiller: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/for/3552917583.html Brewing Stand: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/for/3572078525.html

Hi, I'll be picking up a fridge off craigslist & converting it into a kegerator. I'm thinking I should go with a large fridge to fit as many kegs as I can. I'm shooting for 5 beers on tap at any one time. Maybe 20+ cubic feet? I'm thinking top/bottom most likely, but that freezer dead space...

I have a Mashtun with about 1.5 gallons under my false bottom. I'm going with a water to grain ratio of 1.5 quarts to 1 pound grain. With 13 pounds of grain, that is close to 5 gallons water total. The question I have is that when I subtract the 1.5 gallons under the false bottom, that leaves me...

Ok, so I tried to do a Sculpin clone from a recipe I grabbed from HBA. I'm just breaking in a HERMS system & this is my first all-grain attempt. I way undershot my gravity, ending at 1.043 when my target was 1.067. I held my mash at 148-150 for 1 hour. There are a couple little things that I...

In my dream, I had mashed, sparged, & boiled & when I went to whirlpool, I realized I missed ALL my hop additions. So what can I do now? I'm assuming I'll have to add some more water for loss due to evaporation, but what can I expect by way of lost flavor, considering I'll now be doing a 120...

I used 1.5 quarts of water per pound of grain to start out my mash. After it reached temp, I doughed in. As I began to recirculate, the grains were still at or a little above the water level, leaving me no cushion of water between where my sparge arm was returning water to. I'll be brewing...

So after 8 extract batches, I decided to make the switch to all grain. After saving up some money & buying a beautiful new system, I was short on just one piece of equipment. Unfortunately, I half assed a sparge arm out of a piece of silicone tubing. The holes I poked in it were far too small &...

I fermented my cider in a 1 gallon apple juice bottle. Can I just put the original cap back on it and keep it in the fridge? What about the yeast on the bottom? Do I need to pour out the juice clean out the yeast and pour the juice back in the bottle?

Just dealt with an absolute turd as I purchased a brew stand through a small business owner. Shoddy workmanship, items forgotten, argumentative...frustrating. All the vendors I've dealt with so far have been great, except this one & unfortunately, this was my biggest purchase. Nothing to do with...