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Need suggestions, I have some left over grains and hops and was wondering what to make with it. I prefer lighter dryer beers 5lb 2 row 2lb 6oz caramalt 40L 2lb 14oz victory malt 28L 5lb 13oz Munich 10L 2lb 2oz Carafoam 2.9L 3lb 15oz chocolate 400L 5 oz Special Roast 40L 1oz Liberty 4.3% 1oz N...

I have to vent about My Pit Boss Tailgater. It has been nothing less than a headache with all the repairs I've had to perform. I've owned it just over a year. It started with a bad ignitor right out of the box, after ½ hour on hold I got to talk to a real person and a new ignitor was on it's...

I see Sierra Nevada released their pale ale recipe. I'm planning on making it and was wondering if the 2oz hop addition at flame out should be left in the wort during fermentation or filtered out on it's way to the fermenter?

This is my first try at pressure fermenting. I have a ale that has dropped from 1.052 to 1.021 at which point I attached the spunding valve on my corny keg. I added 5 PSI of pressure and it quickly bled off. I messed around with it. I wound up adding 15 psi of pressure and bled it off to 10 lb...

I've read a lot of info about pressure fermenting but I still have a question or two. For those who pressure ferment in a corny keg how full do you fill your 5 gallon kegs and do you use Fermcap? Also do you start pressure fermentation right after pitching yeast? I have an old bottle (2Years...

I have a couple of sankey 1/6bbl kegs that I came across and I was thinking of using them to do pressure fermentation. I found this at Williams Brewing which should work well: https://www.williamsbrewing.com/Sankey-Keg-Ball-Lock-Tri-Clamp-Conversion-Kit-P4767.aspx The next hurdle is the...

Any one from Williams county Ohio. Looking to get together with others that enjoy brewing and share ideas.

A friend of mine that no longer brews gave me his old bottle of StarSan that looks old and syrupy plus his bottle of BLC cleaner, it also looked old yellowed and syrupy and had a crusty cap. There's no mfg date on either bottle. What would it be good for any ideas? Maybe use double or triple...

I received a stainless steel fermenter for Christmas this year. After taking it out of the box I gave it a quick wash before putting it away. It looked clean and shinny as I started to dry it, but I quickly found my towel was turning black, I was like “what is going on.” Had to be from the...

I'm on my 3rd brew with the 10.5 gal Anvil and the first 2 brews went well but my Mash Efficiency was low according to BS 3 and I just chalked it to learning curve. Well I got serious with the 3rd brew and my mash efficiency is still low at 66%. Using my cooler it's in the upper 70's. I'm...

There's lots of threads on gap settings which it seems everyone's is different. So for arguments sake I'm talking about a 2 roll mill and your doing a mash/sparge.

My local water treatment plant is reporting alkalinity as: Alkalinity, Phenol………….….….3 mg/L and Alkalinity, Total..……….……….111 mg/L The software I have chosen to use is EZ water calculator 3.0.2 and it only ask for Alkalinity, so which should I use?

I saw a show that explored the history of oil and it's impact on our lives. In part of the show it talked about in the early days oil storage tanks would explode because static would ignite the built up volatile gases inside the tanks. The solution was to make the roofs of the tanks float up and...

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200589679_200589679 Anyone ever come across this pump? Looks like it would work and it's only $50. Says it not for potable water but with a cast aluminum body and stainless steel shaft I don't why it wouldn't be. I thought about posting a...

Last year I tried freezing yeast for the first time and so far everything has gone OK. So this week I thawed out a WLP -800 white labs strain that I have. I pitched it into a 1 cup starter and after 24 hours on a stir plate the yeast where happy. Then I pitched it into a 3 cup starter and...

This past year I have experienced yeast that for the most part is dead when I go to use them. Late last year I bought 2 vials of White Labs from a LHB shop that's an hour’s drive away, only to have one vial be bad. I had one smack pack be bad in a kit from a mail order shop and just...

I made a starter Friday that had a gravity reading of 13 brix (1.051) plus I added yeast nutrient to it. After 3 days on the stir plate it just didn't look like anything much was happening so I took a reading and got 10 brix (1.039). So it's at least doing something. After some head scratching...

I finally built my stir plate and acquired everything needed to do a yeast starter, but I have one question. How long do you leave it on the stir plate running?

I have a March 809 Magnetic Impeller Pump mounted under my brew stand and connected to my mashtun just like you see in all the photos people post. My problem is I have the worst time getting the air to purge out of the lines and start pumping. The air gets as far as the pump and it stops...

Hey all. It's been a while since my last post, I'm more of a reader than a poster, but this weekend something happened that I thought I would pass on and hopefully save someone else some headaches. I bought a new fermenter (plastic bucket type) and it had the gallons marked on the side...