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    Electric box compatibility

    Hey guys, Wanting to install a 50 amp GFCI breaker directly into a electric box. Box brand is Thomas and Betts. Some of the breakers in it are Eaton. Does anyone know of any other compatible brands? I'm having difficulty finding a good compatibility chart Thanks in advance.
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    pull chain light in brew room electrified

    Hi all, this is probably stretching the definition of this forum, so if an admin wants to move it, please do so. I bought a house a few months back and have been setting up an electric brew system in an unfinished part of the house. The pull chain light in the room, which has been working fine...
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    How complicated to switch 3 prong to 4

    Hey guys, I have been googling this for a little while, but haven't find an answer that I think quite fits what I'm asking. My wife and I are in the process of buying a house, and once we do I want to build an electric set up. There's not enough room in the box for a dedicated line, so I...
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    saving half a yeast starter for later

    So this makes since in my head, just want to talk it out since I couldn't find much on it via a google search. Could I start a yeast starter, and after a couple days, pour half the contents into mason jars to store in the fridge. then an more boiled and cooled DME to my yeast starter and let...
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    Help me talk through my oak aged stout project

    Hi Everyone! Beginning this month I am wanting to start a stout project that should last me until December. I am writing out my planned process here, to first help me organize, and second see if you guys can poke any holes in my plan. First, with my current capacity, and the size of the...
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    Aging a stout on amaretto cubes?

    So I'm planning on brewing a big stout, and after primary fermentation breaking it up into 3 containers and doing some aging on oak cubes. 1/3 I was going to soak the cubes in bourbon, 1/3 I was going to soak in rum, and 1/3 I was thinking of soaking in... amaretto? I have been trying to do...
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    Weirdest thing to wind up in your wort

    So this is pretty odd, but I thought you guys might find it funny. So Sunday evening I'm brewing. I'm currently boiling my wort. I have an Andes mint lying around, and I decide to eat it. Anyhow, I finish my boil, throw in the flame out hops, and move the pot to the ice bath. And as soon as...
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    Hazy IPA critique

    Hello! I have brewed northeast hazy ipas before, following the popular recipe by brew professor, and now I'm attempting to sort of half make my own recipe, by trying to make a similar beer to what I tasted this weekend at Cerebral Brewing in Denver, CO the beer was their Letter's and Number's...
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    Needle on keg PSI gauge "twitching"

    Hello, I tried searching for an answer online, and couldn't find much, so I figured I'll start a new thread to ask. This is my first time kegging, and for the first several days things appeared fine. Trying to tap my out line was clogged, and it took a lot of work but finally beer is...
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    Stopper loose on fermentor

    I'm not really new to brewing, but this feels like a newbie question, so I'm posting it here. This morning I took my carboy that has been in my fermentation fridge for 2 weeks and put it on the counter to keg tonight. I noticed that the stopper on the top was not tight against the glass like...
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    question about water used for yeast harvesting

    Ok so I am probably over thinking this, but the area I recently moved to uses chloramines in the water, so to make sure my water doesn't have these, and because I wanted to control the salt levels, I used distilled/RO water for my batch. so for the water I plan on using for harvesting the...
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    So I made a rookie mistake, would like some advice

    So last night I was brewing some beer, and after the boil I chilled it for about 40 minutes. I then went into auto pilot, racked the beer into the fermenter, and pitched the safale US-05 yeast into it. It was of course back around this time my brain kicked back in and realized the beer was still...
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    So I got this idea for a Christmas beer...

    and I would like your opinion. I wasn't going to brew a beer for Christmas this year, but then I got a great idea last night. A cinnamon nutmeg vanilla quad or a belgian strong dark ale (aren't they basically the same thing?) So here are my two questions: 1. Is this a terrible idea? 2...
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    Didn't add enough priming sugar to my beer

    So two weeks ago I bottled a new year beer, the recipe from Brooklyn brew shop, and I just realized that through a measuring error I only added 1/3 of the required priming sugar amount. Is there anything I can do? I read somewhere about reopenig the bottles and adding more sugar. If I leave it...
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    Using rum in Bourbon dubbel recipe

    Hello, first my apologies if this in the the wrong place So later this week I am brewing a bourbon dubbel from the Brooklyn brew shop recipe book. It calls to soak oak chips overnight in Bourbon. I have some really nice spiced rum I brought back from Jamaica, how do you guys think that...
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    Hello, second batch, mold in fermenter?

    Hello, I brewed , second batch ever past night, a dead ringer IPA, and this morning i go in and see this To me this looks like mold, but I could be wrong, what should I do? Thanks!
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