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Hello - I picked up some 34/70 last year thinking I would have time to brew during our COVID lockdown and that never happened! Anyway, I want to make a pils this weekend and the packs have a date of 10/20. So the classic question: Use or throwaway? FWIW, I was going to use 2 packs and they...

I am looking at picking up an Inkbird IBS-TH1 to monitor my mash temps and/or my wort temp when I start cooling but was wondering if the external probe would be OK in hot liquid. I know it says it measures up to 212 but would the cord withstand those types of temps? Seems like a decent price...

I’ll be darn if “life” didn’t get in the way (not to mention winter!) and I haven’t brewed since early September and I’m itching to make something! I picked up some yeast and I was going to make a pretty basic ale on the stove top with stuff on hand this weekend but my garage door opener had...

I want to try and ferment a small batch (3G) in a keg but it won’t fit in my mini fridge “as is”; however, it looks like if I cut one of the rubber handles off it will slide under the freezer shelf. Half of the keg will still be accessible so I will have room for a spunding valve. Anyone...

I usually do 5.5G batches outside but decided to do a 2G batch in the kitchen this weekend and really enjoyed myself. I was able to stay inside and spend time with my wife, clean up was easy since the sink is right there, easy to move stuff around, etc. I have a Spike 10G but it’s too big...

Think Spike will release a low cost SS fermenter/bucket similar to Ss Brew Bucket or the Anvil product?

For my last two batches I mixed the “traditional” starter days in advance and just did a 4 hr vitality starter on brew day and it seems to work quite well. I’ll take 50g of DME and 500ml of water, boil, cool and pitch a pack of newish yeast. Let this spin for ~4 hrs and pitch. The last...

Came home from work Monday and went to get a beer...crap, it’s warm! Seems like the ol’ chest freezer gave up the ghost and died a peaceful death sometime between Sunday afternoon and Monday night. I blew out the coils and tried cleaning things but it doesn’t seem to help. If I unplug it...

I am going to bottle a batch and want to try the individual sugar cubes but can’t find the <3 gram cubes anywhere - including Amazon. The Domino Dots I see there are 453 grams. Where do you guys (who do this) find the right size cubes!?

I've been playing around with the best way to incorporate LODO into my BIAB set up and 2 areas concern me: adding grains to my strike water and dough balls/stirring; and lifting the bag and letting it drain/splash. As a work around I was thinking of doing something like this: 1) Heat strike...

I am getting ready to brew a jalapeño cream ale and started thinking - will this leave a lingering taste in a plastic fermonster? I haven’t brewed a pepper beer in a long while and can’t remember if I used an old bucket and/or if it left an after taste. I guess I could always do a long oxy...

I don’t get a lot of brew days anymore so thinking of making a watermelon wheat on the 4th (using all American ingredients of course!). Anyone else brewing July 4th?

I started a new job/career and it’s been hard to find brew days. Throw in winter and days are even narrower. I planned to brew today but had a LOT of things to do before I leave town and was going to “bag it” and try to brew in a few weeks. Well, my wife said she could paint the bathroom...

This may be addressed elsewhere, if so I apologize... I am going to try my hand at spunding on my next beer and have a few questions re: spunding and dry hopping: As I understand it, you transfer the beer from the fermenting vessel into a keg with ~4 pts remaining for natural carbonation. I...

Whew...got in my last brew day for 2017! Due to changing jobs/career this fall, my life has been turned upside down (in a good way) and the ol' pipeline has sure suffered so I wanted to try and squeeze in a brew day. This was the day! It was 60 degrees today so I stopped working/studying...

I have a 5 tap keezer and usually keep 2, maybe three “go to” beers on tap and rotate the other taps. My standards are an English IPA with lots of rye, a house ale using citra and mosaic and a Pilsner. I’ve pretty much dialed these in and don’t change the recipe now. I rotate the other...

OK, I am confused (so it's probably something simple I am missing!). I am adding some honey and want to add at flame out. In the specific ingredient there is a box for "Late Extract Boil time" which allows you to enter the time in mins. When you hover over the field it says, "time to boil a...

I'm looking at doing my first Alt beer and so far here is what I have put together: Perle Hops (I have 2 oz) WLP036 HAHA! That is as far as I've gotten! :ban: I already have the hops so I am looking at doing something with them and thought I'd try this style. Anyone have a good...

It amazes me how much knowledge can be found on this forum and I'm lucky (glad!) that I stumbled here a few years ago. I have learned a lot and (hopefully) contributed a little. So this got me thinking...how long have you been brewing? I have always wanted to try this so my wife got my...

I have a 5-faucet keezer that is sitting there with 4 empty faucets and one hooked to about a 1/4th of a keg. Sitting next to my keezer are six empty kegs. I need to get my rear busy and make some beer! I do have 2 cases of stout aging in bottles, and another stout which I am going to keg...