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So I've got a keg of beer I brewed six months ago. It was fully sanitized and purged prior to kegging. Right now it's got a fine layer of dust on the top and I finally want to tap it. Do I just spray off the top with water, and maybe spray some star san on it to clean and sanitize it? I've never...

I just saw this a few minutes ago, it's a kickstarter campaign for a new documentary. It's about an autistic guy named Lance who wants to write a book about the history of American breweries so they are going to take him on a tour of (all?) the breweries in the US and film the whole thing. Sound...

My wife and I are moving from New England to San Diego this September and I have four hops plants that I will be bringing with me. Now I remember California having a pretty serious plant shakedown at their interstate border and I was wondering if anyone knew for sure whether they would be...

Every time I try a new beer from those guys it just reaffirms my belief that we are a million percent on the same beer page. After reading Tony Magees book I'm just that much more of a fan. Anyone here been to their beer sanctuary in Petaloma? Wish I was in California right now so I could check...

Hello all. Up to now I have been extract brewing and I have built a couple of recipes that have killed so far. I was going to make my first foray into AG brewing be that "Fizzy Yellow Beer" recipe. Honestly though, I only wanted to brew that one for my parents to try to get them to drink the...

I brewed a nice IIPA the other day and have been fermenting it at around 63 degrees since last Monday. It is due to go into secondary under another oz of whole leaf citra around Monday. Now I have the choice to leave it upstairs where it is 63'ish, or put it in the basement which is more like 53...

Was looking through the US Plastics site to see if anyone made 10 (10-11 hopefully) gallon food grade buckets and came across this conical bottom tank that includes stands. It comes in 35 and 60 gallons and is only $165 and $191... Seems to me to be the perfect medium-large size fermentor for...

This year I'm growing Cascade, Centennial, Nugget, and Zeus. I plan to dry, freeze, and hopefully use these in all phases of the brew process from bittering boil, aroma boil, flameout, and to dry hop with. Now I've heard people caution against using fresh or homegrown hops due to "grassy"...

...like hoppy GOODNESS...I LOVE IT! Brewed a 6 gallon batch of IIPA Monday, added 5lbs of honey last night, going to rack it to secondary under another oz of whole leaf citra next Fri/Sat. Last time I brewed the last version of this beer it stuck and didn't ferment through all the way due to...

So, when I was brewing my newest batch of high gravity IIPA I remembered someone saying something about using olive oil as a yeast nutrient. This didn't sound bad so I went ahead and dropped 1/4tsp (without thinking) into my 6 gallon batch thinking, "hey, this isn't much but let's see what...

So I am beginning my foray into all grain using the "Fizzy Yellow Beer" recipe from this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f62/fizzy-yellow-beer-120939/ that Yooper posted. Now, this is also going to be my first biab batch, and all I have is a 5gallon ss kettle that's been doing me good so...

So I've been collecting beer bottle caps for a bit as a way to help encourage me to try new beers and to give me a memento of them when they are gone. For a while there I just had this big zip lok bag full of caps until I figured out what to do with them and started gluing magnets into them and...

I've seen a few posts out there regarding converting extract to all grain but I'm still a little unsure. Could anyone help me with what the grain bill to replace 6.6lbs of Breiss Amber LME and 3lbs of Breiss Golden Light DME would be? Thanks in advance! :D Chris

Ok, so I am growing a centennial hop rhizome and it is producing a nice amount of hop cones. I picked a few of the yellow/browning ones off of my plant today because they are obviously done growing and it's time to dry them out and instead of pine and citrus, I am getting a STRONG whiff of burnt...

So I found an article about the oldest beer recipe and it calls for dates, for the wild yeast that grows on it. I'll post the recipe as it appeared on byo.com after but first my question is, what strain of yeast would likely naturally occur on dates? What's the likelihood that the yeast on the...

Ouch...:drunk: :tank:

Earlier I posted This Thread about using beer to top off a way too low level on the IIPA I just brewed with another beer I brewed the following day that is also ready to go into secondary. I hate to double post but I haven't really even had any views on it, let alone responses with anything...

Ok, so at one point I read someones reply saying that topping off a low (less than 5 gal) brew would just amount to watering it down, ok duly noted. That being said, I did it again, when I was aerating the worth the foam got to be too high to see the level (now I bring the level up with...

So yesterday was pretty humid and I had to weigh out a lb of DME from a 3lb bag I had to brew an IPA. The lb I weighed out was going to a blonde ale along with another 3lb bag. Well, I finished my brew and came back in to bag up the lb for today's brew and the top of the DME had solidified. Is...

So, I think this is my first actual brewing related post. I got a recipe from my buddy Nick for a nugget/citra IPA and I couldn't get any citra at the time so I swapped out fuggles/zythos and Amarillo for the citra additions. The brew I made looked like this: 5.5 gal boil, 5 gal batch 60...