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I am a BIAB brewer and i want to brew an Imperial Stout. Until now i always mashed all the grains (for imperial stouts that is) in as much water as i could and i would sparge the grain bag to get the right preboil volume. It worked good enough, but the efficiency was low. So now i want to brew...

I am brewing from 2012 and i had pretty good results so far. But as i didn't really liked dark beers i almost never brewed them. Recently my taste buds started to like dark beers, don't ask me why, and i want to brew some big stouts. The problem is that i don't seem to figure out the recipe and...

Hello, After more than a year without brewing because of a newborn child and a job change i managed to build my electric all-in-one system from a 50 liter pot. I used a bottom mounted 3 kw heating element i bought from AliExpress. Also the ball valve was mounted on the bottom of the...

After a few years of moving from a city to another and a baby in my familly i can finally return to my electric brewery. I was going to make a 3 vessel HERMS system based on Kal's controller, with 100 liters pots (25 gal?). In the meantime i had the oportunity to buy a 160 liters pot ( 40 gal?)...

Hi folks, i have a homemade copper counterflow chiller (copper tube inside a rubber hose) that a friend gave it to me after he bought a Therminator. It seems that he didn't cleaned it after the last use because inside the tube is a black gunk that covers the walls. I don't have any PBW and i...

A few weeks ago i brewed a belgian Dubbel from some ingredients i had left. 6.5 kg Pilsner 0.1 kg Melanoiden 0.2 kg Wheat, flaked 0.02 kg Chocolate malt 0.5 kg Dark candy syrup (180ebc) 0.3 kg Sugar Molasses (raw cane sugar, unrefined) The OG was 1.064 on my setup and i fermented it...

Hi guys, i want to take the plunge from BIAB to a more traditional set up. Not because i am not happy with BIAB but just because now i can have my own room only for brewing. I found at a stainless steel workshop some "scrap" perforated stainless steel sheets that i can make a false bottom...

I don't have a spare fridge to convert in a ferm chamber but i want to make something that will work. My ideea is to build a box out of plywood, isolate it with styrofoam or something similar and place it near my freezer. Make two copper tubing spirals that will act as radiators. Place one...

Hi, i was browsing youtube and watching brewing videos and somehow got to a russian channel that had brewing videos. One of them was this It seems to me that this guy made a braumeister like control panel with some pretty cheap devices, judging by the aliexpress links in the description at...

I found a new source of malt, it's a malt factory that produce about all the Pilsner malt for that the big companies use to make their no character yellow beer. It's about 3 times cheaper than the malt i use for my homebrew (imported from around Europe). How many of you would use it as a base...

For my future HERMS system i can afford on of these pumps: A Vortex: http://www.deutsche-vortex.de/en/pumps-for-domestic-hot-water/pumps-for-domestic-hot-water-bw-152-153/bw-152-r-12-ot/ or a Novax...

Hi, I was watching this podcast from Basic Brewing http://traffic.libsyn.com/basicbrewing/bbv07-21-14pilotmalt.m4v Do any of you know how their malt kiln is made? I would like to make a smaller one (well, smaller meaning for about 50 lbs) for making my own malt, especially speciality malts...

Today i brewed a simple 6g batch of oatmeal stout. At the end, before the 5 min hop addition i decided to try adding some chamomile in with the hops. I weighted 10 grams of dried chamomile flowers and added them with the hops. I thought that it isn't too much, but the smell in the kettle was...

Hello, i plan to make an oven using this kind of resistor wire as a heat source http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/30Meter-0-5mm-AWG24-Gauge-Nichrome-Resistance-Heating-Coils-Resistor-Wire-/301680836205?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item463d943e6d . I will use this for curing sausages/meats and for...

Hello, i was thinking about buying a 9000W 380V element and plug it in a 220V outlet to reduce the power to around 5000W. Is this posible? If so, how can i reduce the power even more? I need to say that is very expensive to get ULWD elements here.

Hi, i harvested the dregs from a Westmalle Dubbel and made a starter. When i smell it it smells somewhat cidery, almlst like elderflower wine, if you know the smell. I also tasted it, and it doesn't seem to be sour or having any other off taste. Just the smell is off, comparing it with others...

Hello guys, as i told you in other threads, liquid yeast is hard and expensive to get in my country, even harder in the hot wheater. I have slants with WLP001, wyeast1217 and a wyeast wit yeast that i don't remeber it's name. Now i want to brew a high gravity belgian ale, tripel maybe, and i...

Hello brewers, i have a three years old Cascade plant that in the first two years produced quite a bit o cones. This year it didn't produced any flowers, and i have no ideea why. Even the plants that i made last year by rooting cuttings from the main Cascade produced some cones. In tje...

Hello, i just bought a G type 30 liters Keg (Bass Brewery) and i want to convert it into a boil kettle. I want to install a ball valve that will help me when i "no-chill", the problem is that this type of keg isn't straight at the bottom part so i could install the valve, it have a "circular...

Hello, had anybody tasted this liquor? Is made in The Netherlands, at a trappist brewery. I bought two small bottles when i visited the brewery. Do you know a recipe that can give a similar drink? Here you can see some details about it...