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Hi, all. I noticed that the welding companies seem to not refill your CO2 tanks...they only seem to want to swap your tank out for one of their filled ones. And at around $25 for a 5 lb tank swap, it wasn't cheap ($5 per lb). I can get a 1.5 lb. paintball tank refilled for $3, but they...

Ok, so I downloaded the trail version of Beersmith and used the Partial Mash option to enter the original recipe. I then tweaked the recipe to use 4.4 lbs Pilsner Light DME with a roughly 2 lb. mixture of crushed grains that I had available in my fridge. So in total, it was: 4.4 lbs Pilsner...

OK, great. That actually sounds about perfect. Adding a few points for grains makes it about 1.046. If the FG gets down to around 1.015 I should be in the range of 4% ABV, which is closer to Pilsner. I think I'll give it a go. Thanks. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Thanks, everyone! By the way...I'm in unincorporated Fox River Grove, which is actually McHenry. But I've worked in Lake and lived in Cook, so it's all good. ;-)

Hi, all. This is my first real post. New brewer, long time lurker. By far, my favorite commercial beer is Pilsner Urquell. Just LOVE the stuff. So my first batch was a modified version of the first Pilsner Urquell extract recipe I found on the web, using an ale yeast. I call it Pilsner...

Hi, all. My name is Ray Rosene and I am just getting into brewing after many, many years of planning on doing it. I bought an Ale Pail plastic bucket kit probably 10-15 years ago and it kept moving with me from place to place as I never found the time. Why did it take me so long? I...