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Due to COVID19, I have been botteling allot more recently. The homebrew clubs I am in all have their own beer exchange drop off locations. Not enough to need a bench capper, but enough to want one (typically I only bottle for competitions, or belgians which use corks). I guess I just want...

Current setup : 8 gallon Bayou Classic pot with valve. 10 gallon SS Brewtech Pot with whirlpool arm. Chugger pump, Cooler Mash Tun with valve and a custom top input. I was considering picking up the grain-father G70 but also considering just adding on to my current system. My problem is...

I'm in the process of cleaning out a soda plate chiller I got for free. It's a beast and weighs 37 lbs! 2017-08-20_11-42-49 by glamisduner, on Flickr I cleaned all these adapters with a barkeepers friend soak and brushing (inside and out!), i think they are these...

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I'm trying to pick between these two, but I am open to other stuff too. http://www.beveragefactory.com/draftbeer/faucets/faucets/SF2003.html I believe it is all stainless. But why is this one more expensive if it has a plastic nozzel...

So I ordered some cheap 5/16 y7/16 Vinyl Tubing from amazon to use for my gas line. Been using this size it for years and the price was right. The stuff I got was not pressure rated though, and this happened when making some home made la Croix type stuff. need better gas line. by glamisduner...

So if I move my Co2 tank outside of my keezer I can fit a 5th tap. At first this seemed simple but now I realize I will need the following changes. The cost is adding up fast! $90 My 4 tap drip tray will need to be upgraded to the 5 tap...

Finally got around to hooking up my pump. I have been laying a colander on my grain bed sand sparging in top of the upside down colander. Been working pretty good, I think but tired of holding the hose in place. I was looking at buying the "Ultimate Sparge Arm", but it says it will not...

Just finished harvesting this years hops. However my plant just shot out a bunch of new bines off the old ones. Should I trim these or just let them go? Any chance I will see it bloom again?

Made Ed Worts last time and it came out really dry. Now that its a year old I'm starting to taste a little more apple but this time I don't think I want to use as much corn sugar this time. Instead I had my GF pickup 2 apple juice concentrates from wallmart to mix into my costco not from...

So I thought I would try to avoid using a secondary this time. I have never tried this before but since there were no dry hops for this beer I thought I should give it a try. I wanted to see if I could tell a difference in reducing oxygenation. Anyways, apparently my auto siphon...

Quick question. This is my first time trying to skip a secondary. I'm on week3 of fermentation and I tried to cold crash the beer and there is still a light haze. I think I can get a little more clarity if I add some gelatin as I have in the past. I'm going to add it in to the primary...

It's time to make another apfelwein and mead! Ok, so I can fit 2 glass carboys in my fermentation chest, and my mead has been going for about 4-5 months. I had to pull it out a couple times to cold crash some beer and when the temp goes up the mead seems to start fermenting a little more...

Or maybe I'm doing something wrong. In all grain brewing is the sparge supposed to be more water than the mash? For example, both beersmith and my recipe kit both told me I needed about 3 gallons to mash and 5 gallons to sparge. I ended up boiling off more water but the beer came out spot on...

I have some hops growing in a huge planter/pot I bought from Costco. We have sever gopher problem so this should take care of that.. I was going to put some metal eyes in my roof on the south facing part of my house, and run some twine down to the pot. But then I remembered that this area is...

The first thing I had a problem with was calculating how much water to use in my beverage cooler mashtun. Palmer suggests 2qts/lbs of grain, then sparge with 1.5 x that amount. I used 12 lbs of grain, so that would be 6 gallons for mash and 9 gallons for sparging. Seems to me there is no way...

I have a basic mead going that is over three months old. I want to make it into a sparkling mead. How much longer should i wait before i keg or bottle? should i keg or bottle it? I do have an extra keg so that wouldn't be a problem.

I just got 12lbs of local wildflower honey not sure if it is raw or not, but it looked like regular honey to me. Not sure whether to do a 5 gallon or 4 gallon batch with this amount. If I do a 4 gallon batch, can I just use a 5 gallon carboy? I don't think I want to do anything fancy since...

I accidentally froze my starter. New mini fridge just for holding yeast and some beers... I guess I turned it up too high. One of my canning jar lids flexed and cracked and the yeast is all frozen. Not sure if it is still worth keeping? Transfer to a new sterilized jar? Also the...

I bought a partial mash from AHS. The thing I have been noticing with their IPA's is that they are typically overly bitter and lose hop aroma quickly. Kit uses 6oz of falconers flight hops and 8lbs of extract + mash and sparge. The hop schedule is 1.5oz and boil for 60 min 1.25oz @ 30...