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I got a really great deal on a keg of mead from a local meadery. I have a corny system so I bought a Sanke tapper and corny adapter pieces. That all went together fine. This is a plastic keg and the coupler is plastic is as well. When screw in the tap and lock it down the tap slowly unscrews...

I have heard that hops for homebrewers are quite a different quality than what breweries have access to. Where do you get your hops? Hop Union is usually to expensive for me so I buy bulk. I have tried a few places and I just dont think I can get the character I want. I get a decent...

Well i know i may be impatient at the moment but I brewed a standard sour 60/40 two row/wheat February 1st. I then pitched a vial of bug country and fermented at 70ish for a week or so. Then I just let it sit in my basement until now(basement is 55 to 60). I am moving so i transferred the...

So yesterday I was brewing and just started the boil. I added my hop shot and decided to mix in the hop shot oil with my mash paddle...well i didn't rinse the paddle. So some grains got into the boil. Not many i guess but just what was stuck to the paddle. I was just wondering if this enough...

Is it normal to get a ton of sediment in BIAB when brewing anything with roasted grains? When I mill my grain tight the roast malt basically turns into a powder. I know this will probably settle out in primary so it is really no concern but I am just wondering if this is unique to BIAB or...

I cant mill grain below .025. If i do it will not grab the grain at all...however it grabs malted wheat just fine at that range. Do i need to wet the grain? Is my barley crusher just crappy? Also double milling is impossible it will not catch either. I would like to up my efficiency since...

I made a huge mistake plugging my freezer into the wrong plug on my STC 1000 and it just froze the beer/wort overnight after i pitched my healthy starter. Should I just thaw the beer and repitch a new packet of yeast, or just let it go to see if its ok. Im assuming the yeast are not happy...

Starting to make up my own recipes. I am more of an IPA guy I guess but wanted to give imperial stouts a shot. Any suggestions? 5 gallon Batch 13 lbs (63.4%) Maris Otter 1 lb (4.9%) Flaked Barley 1 lb (4.9%) Cara Pils 1 lb (4.9%) Belgian Chocolate Malt 1...

Im going to try my first all grain/biab brew this upcoming weekend. Confused about the mash ratio. I have a 15 gallon kettle and just tested the boil off rate. It is 2gal per hour as its dry and cold here now. My starting volume according to simple biab calculator is 9.51 gallons. I lose...

Im going to jump into my first all grain batch very soon here. I am just figuring out the details before hand and need some help with this. My roommate and I both own saltwater reef tanks so we always have about 40 gallons of reverse osmosis de ionized water on hand. Its a 5 stage filter...

Its fresh its wonderful! looking for DFH 120, Heady Topper, and Pliny. Also can get new glarus stuff if you are into that.

Entering into a homebrew competition and wondering what style this beer is. Pale LME was used instead of dark LME accidently so I am not sure if it is an black IPA anymore. 6.6-7 pounds pale malt 1 pound brown sugar steeping grains: (1/4 lb Debittered Black malt, 1/4 lb Caramel 60L...

I bought a black ipa extract kit from the LHBS recently. I brewed it up yesterday. As i was pouring in the LME i realized the extract was Pale and not extra dark like the directions required. What kind of beer did I just make? Its a rather brown color and not black. Im interested to see how...

New to brewing, was planning on not using a secondary with a 5 gallon batch. I have a 6 gallon better bottle. I know you want head space for primary but when switching to secondary you want little as possible. What kind of head space are you looking for when you are not racking to a secondary?