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Sorry if I have missed this somewhere.... Thinking about going electric, but before I put too much thought into it I need to get a sense of whether my basement ceiling height is doable. It's an old house with an unfinished basement. Ceilings are just over 6 feet at the highest point. Is this...

Trying to find 50 ft. copper tubing to make another immersion chiller. The description of some that I found for a reasonable price has the description below. I am wondering about the up to 65C part. Is this a concern going into boiling wort for 10-15 minutes to sanitize and then however long to...

Been looking into the Water, Yeast, Hops... book series. Think there is another one or two. I think John Palmer wrote one - maybe Water. Don't remember the other authors. Suspect a number of you know the books I am talking about. The covers all have a similar look to them. Anyway, would like...

Got a vial of White Labs yeast and the black plastic band under the cap is missing. It is the band that is connected to the cap when new and cracks/breaks from the cap when you open it for the first time. Checking with the retailer but curious on your thoughts. Do you think it's okay to use...

Had some persistent rust in a pot that Barkeeeper's Friend was not dealing with effectively. Ended up grinding off the rust. Now rust is gone and pot is passivated with BKF. May be a dumb question as I think it is fine.... Anyway, question is does grinding it down have any ill health effects? It...

I know there is a lot on HBT about Barkeeper's Friend and how to apply it, but of course there are varying opinions. Wondering if anyone wants to chime in on how I can best use BKF to passivate my brushed stainless steel pot. I have both the powder and the cream.

Passivating a brushed stainless steel kettle with Star San solution. Dumped my Star San in then added the appropriate water. I splashed a bit of concentrated Star San on the side of the kettle inside in a few places and it ended up leaving stains. Was probably on there for a few minutes before...

Opened my SS Technologies Brew Bucket to do my dry hopping and noticed the ring of krausen was basically cooked (i.e., black) on the right hand side. It is in a 7 cubic foot freezer with a little Lasko (My Heat?) heater. The heater is as far away from the fermenter as possible but was more or...

Did first all grain yesterday and asking for thoughts on a couple things. Very glad to have the first one under my belt. Hit my mash temperature and lost about a degree over the hour. Hit correct gravity after boil. I haven't tried to figure out the efficiency yet as I was just focussing on the...

I have a pot with two welded ports that I am using as a HLT. Bottom port has a three piece valve. When putting the valve on I wanted the lever on top and probably tightened it too much. The end result was a small hairline crack by the weld. When I used the pot some small drops of water were...

Doing my first yeast starter with a stir plate tonight for a Saturday batch. Using Yeast Bay Vermont Ale liquid yeast. OG is 1.070, 5 gallon batch, yeast has 80 billion initial cell count, produced March 17 (best before July 17). I have a 2000ml flask. According to Mr. Malty I need 241...

Building a recipe in BeerSmith (pretty new to it). Set up my equipment profile... and in my recipe the numbers all seem to make sense to me except for "measured batch size." I didn't complete this field and think it must have auto-populated. It's basically a 5 gallon batch but the measured batch...

I am going to try the Fresh Squeezed IPA from the recipes forum. It calls for half a pound of Munich. I ended up getting Weyermann Munich I, which I am thinking was the wrong one and should have got CaraMunich I. Should I try and get the CaraMunich (would have to order it), assuming that is...

Unintentionally over chilled my wort and was probably at 54ish degrees when I pitched. Used US-05 that I rehydrated, but forgot to check yeast temperature before pitching. My timing got all screwy towards the end so the yeast was rehydrating for a while - maybe around an hour. Put my carboy in...

I am kind of confused about how the delay works on STC-1000. I know it delays cycling the freezer/fridge. When I plug it in it does its delay, which I expect. Once it gets down to the set temperature then my freezer stops and then the temperature slowly is rising back up one degree (which is the...

I haven't been able to find the information I am looking for to be confident enough on what I think is the deal with my situation. Did basic hard cider which ended at about 1.003. I kegged it a few days ago, carbed it for about 48 hours and it is in the fridge where it will remain. It has...

Hi, Attempting to build a stir plate. Have looked pretty extensively on HBT and the web. My understanding is that a 25 ohm 3 watt potentiometer, like those sold at Radio Shack is a good pot to go with. Problem is that I am in Canada and can't order that. Haven't been able to find pot with...