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I'm looking into buying a Tapcooler for bottle filling from my kegs, but the literature states that they are for forward sealing faucets. I have standard faucets on my keezer, and am wondering if they have an adapter available that I am not finding. I can't imagine I'm the only one to have run...

Thanks for the feedback - I'll try those recommendations.

I'm fermenting with temperature control for the first time and need some help. I've set up a chest freezer with a A421 temp controller with a FermWrap inside for heating in my cold winter basement. Freezer is not currently plugged in (will switch from heater to freezer when summer comes, or I...

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I'm reviving/hijacking this to see how this beer turned out. I recently brewed an (almost) all Amarillo IPA, and it turned out to be a boozy, astringent mess. It is the first of 35 batches that I actually can't drink. Recipe was: 12lb Golden Promise 4lb English Mild 1lb Caramel 40 2oz...

It was their AG recipe, but I tweaked it to brew a PM version stovetop. My brew day got nixed due to some family stuff, so I moved inside on a weeknight. Instead of 13 lbs pale ale, 1 lb C60, and 1 lb C40, I used: 9lb pale, 5 oz c40, 5 oz c60, and added 6lb Gold LME. I had to split the...

Gonna break-in the new heat stick and try a 3 gal partial mash Cascadian dark Ale on the stove-top tonight.

+5 Fan Vault EPA +5 Oost-Vlaanderen Dubbel +5 Arcology Barleywine +5 Blobitecture Stout +5 The Colonizer v2 +5 Corten Amber +5 Pre-Fab Pale +5 Bitter Dissapointment +5 Wood +5 Oasis +5 Let It Snow +5 Pre-Fab Extra Pale 55486 + 60 = 55546

I don't have a problem with Summit bottles, about half my homebrew goes into them. I just drop the empties into a small cooler, and then when it is full, I dump a scoop of oxyclean in, fill with hot water and leave for 1/2 to 3 days, until I find time to rinse out. By then, most of the labels...

Borders rule! Well done.

Just bottled up my first attempt at the 15 min Cascade Ale - so I'll have my second fermenter free for my double brew day on Sat. Not to mention the yeast to build back up for Sat night. First up another ESB, first time all-grain for that style. Once that is in the can (so to speak), I'll dive...

Pro. Nice work.

Short's: Bellaire Brown and Huma-Lupa_Licious Odd Side: CPA - Citra Pale Ale = Layover at DTW.

Like a lot of homebrew equipping - you can get by with smaller/cheaper/lower quality, but it all depends on your personal system and preferences. I brew all of my 5 gallon batches in an 8 gal pot, and I'm perfectly happy with the setup. I tend to boil off just over 1 gal/hr. I like to go...

Get a blowoff on that bad boy. This is the only brew that I've done twice so far, and both times I've had to put on the BO Tube. I haven't had a blowoff on any other beer. Less than 5.5 gals of wort into a 6.5 gal bucket.

Seviin is all over the place. Pentagram will be tougher to find - though not impossible. Check here: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/pentagram-still-around-twin-cities.89584/#post-1385946 In person trades are also very possible - just post in the Midwest forum on Beer Advocate.

Going to try a double brew day on Saturday. Yooper's Oatmeal Stout to start, and then an extract Dead Ringer to keep my wife happy with something hoppy. I'm making the second batch out of extract just to save some time. If I had two burners in the garage, I'd definitely do both all...

Solo for me as well. I'd love to have a daytime brewday and share the hobby if possible, but with 2 kids under 5, I only brew at night. Typically, I'll heat strike water during dinner. Bathe the kids during the mash, and then head out to the garage to boil while my wife puts the kids to...

measured 62 yesterday.

Links? I've never heard this before. If I didn't use 120deg water from the HWH, I'd add at least an hour to my brew days.