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I ordered a larger HERMS coil from Stainless Brewing about 6 months ago than I needed for my pot retrofitting and ended up having to order another smaller one. This one got re-boxed but I never sent it back (just forgot to ship it back) so its been sitting in my brew shed taking up space.. If...

So I am a huge fan of FWalkers Nitro Merlin and here in Charlotte, NC, Total Wine finally is starting to carry it which has my interest back into looking at how to nitro my own porters and stouts.. With that said and me just loving dark beers on nitro in general, I have always steered clear of...

So I was over at a friends house who started brewing about 6 months ago and he had been bugging me to come over and have a brew day with him to see what he could be doing better as his beers just were not coming out as expected.. When I arrived, I was a bit taken aback at what I saw (I tried to...

Pulling the plug on buying any hops from my LHBS..I am dialing in some house recipes and I am just not getting the consistency on hop profile..everything else is dead on with the beers batch to batch with exception to the hop profiles in the beers. Just ordered about $200 of hops from Yakima...

I know this has probably been beat to hell and back as it is, but I had to post this as this is the first time I went into a local brewery to spend some hard earned cash to try something new and do my part to support the craft community and when I saw the price, I literally had to scrape my jaw...

Wanted to share one of my personal highlights of this hobby with the homebrew community both near and far in hopes it inspires someone starting out that this can be as big or small a hobby as you want it to be. Without you guys and all the sharing of knowledge, my brewing peers in the community...

So I had a request for 50 gallons of home brew for a party to be made and figured I would test my endurance as I have been putting plans together for a small nano in a neighboring town and one of the things I keep hearing from others is that you better be able to brew all the time (daily) and...

Just got back to NC from the Thanksgiving VT trip. Picked up a case of HT, some Switchback Marzen, a 6-er of Lawsons Super Session #2 and got to finally hit the Hills FS brewery. Have to say, was not too impressed with the Lawsons SS#2 but the Hills brewery was something that if you get up to...

So for this years pumpkin batch (both pumpkin ale and pumpkin pies), I went on the hunt for a new style of pumpkin/squash to use. I found 3 candidates that I am going to experiment with. The local pumpkin guy told me that for the best pies and sweetness, use either a Candy Roaster pumpkin, A...

Wanted to share this as I just ordered 2 of their all grain kits (right now they only have a pale ale and french press porter all grain kit) but for their price with free shipping and it being all local malt, I could not pass it up ($24 for both of them shipped which = 10 gallons of beer!)...

So I know this show has been around a while and I was looking for something SciFi-ish to watch and someone recommended Doctor Who. Was skeptical at first but started to watch the first season of the reboot on Netflix and even though its a very different/kooky show that took me off guard when...

So I am thinking about permanently mounting a 1/2in 50ft HERMS coil in my E-Keggle with quick disconnects on the outside to hook it up to use as my IM chiller.. Anyone else done this and if so, any concerns, issues with it? I have a 1/2in 50ft copper drop-in IM that I use at the time but not...

Whats everyone experience with using any/all of the above? I have a plan to whip up a really nice russian imperial stout and even a choc milk stout for the colder months and I would like to get a nice light bourbon/oak/vanilla infusion taste profile into them but not break the bank doing it...

So I went on the warpath against my beerstone/brown gunk build-up in my keggle BK this weekend. I know you are not supposed to use steel wool, etc. but when the tough get going, I break it out and go at it with some fine steel wool because it works. I was curious if a Star San soak helps...

Got asked this by someone at work today who is considering getting a Heat Stick or one of Bobbys Hot Rods with a 2000w element.. His question is if he could you use a router speed control switch to control the output of the heat stick as a quick and dirty way of ratching down the element power...

So..the word "ziconcrateous" which is a 100% made up word got used in relation to cleaning up bottles in another thread today which got me to thinking..what have you found that grosses you out from bottles you have had friends/co-workers/etc. donate to you for reuse? Some of mine include: -...

Ordered these back in December for my ebrewery and they finally showed up (4 months to ship from the UK to the US!!) yesterday in my mailbox. Unfortunately, I had already ordered Greenlee's 2 months ago to replace them due to them taking so long to arrive so these are brand new. These work...

Figured I had some time to post some of my major project that has been dragging over the late fall/winter and continues to be a work in progress. I am essentially doing this build as I get time and $$$ to work on it. Water/Sink: I did not put in a sink or a water supply to this building as...

So I have been noodling this for quite a while and now with my 12x24 shed getting a 50amp 240v feeder buried and wired up, its time to start down my road of ebrewing. The goal/end result: To end up with a "Kal" like setup at the end of the day with keggles. Phase 1: To build a "Kal" panel...

http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/off-the-topper-iipa-homebrew-kit.html/?icn=NBHomepage&ici=off-the-topper "Off the Topper" as a clone name is a bit odd.. Wonder how close this is to the real thing? Looks very similar to the recipe posted here some time back...$60 bucks for that bad boy in...