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1 - Fridge. Only used for beer and yeast. Lower level - up to 4 Corny kegs (currently 3). Upper level - yeast on slants, hops, whatever. Fridge is immaculately clean, no spills, no mildew - it is pristine. 2 - APA in keg. About 2-3L left there, been sitting in fridge for ~2mnths, QD on OUT...

We are going to replace two aircons next week. Both are mechanically fine and no problem with pipes and all that whatever there is inside. Control units are long gone though. One of them is really very little used and nearly immaculate, except for the controls (this is the one I think I want to...

We are going to replace two aircons next week. Both are mechanically fine and no problem with pipes and all that whatever there is inside. Control units are long gone though. One of them is really very little used and nearly immaculate, except for the controls. Both are discontinued and...

Hi, I wanted to clear out my grain storage before buying more. So this is what came to me: 1.32 kg Pale Ale 2row (6.9 EBC) 1.00 kg Pilsen (2.0 EBC) 1.18 kg Wheat Flakes (3.2 EBC) 0.40 kg Rye Flakes (3.9 EBC) 0.20 kg Oat Flakes (2.0 EBC) 0.40 kg Cane Sugar...

Ladies and gentlemen, My best friend is turning 40 on Nov, 4. I must make a killer beer - not for the party, but as a present to be relished away from other people's eyes. I've brewed since last summer and feel somewhat confident I can handle it but of course my recipe database is quite limited...

Looks like I recently find myself in fallunder situations much too often. OK now it is that two packs of Wyeast 3463 Forbidden Fruit Yeast in my fridge are dangerously swollen, and I absolutely have no time to attend to them in a proper way. (a proper way would mean opening the packs, making a...

Hi everyone, I smacked a pack of 1272 by an accident :( Now I urgently need some simple recipe with this yeast BUT preferably NOT APA and NOT IPA. Thing is I am brewing a double batch of APA today (2x5gal) and I already have 2x2L flasks with other yeast starter on the mixers... smacking that...

I have two leftover kits of basic APA - nothing outstanding but a fine drink when you open a fridge with no particular idea what to find there. Normally I use liquid yeast but I found a pack of US-05 and another one of Nottingham in the fridge door that I once bought just in case for whatever...

Never brewed a Belg before. Planning to take Randy Mosher's Three-Nipple Tripel recipe (from Radical Brewing) as the basis: 10 lb Pilsener 2 lb Munich 2 lb brown sugar I'm planning to use WY 1214 yeast for this beer. Now, questions are, a) I want to pour in some oatmeal and wheat flakes. Talk...

I live in a flat. (long desperate sigh) OK I stole the guest bathroom from our home and turned it into a brewery. 3 sq m (1.65*2.05 m) including the toilet and the basin that I don't want to remove for obvious reasons. There sits all my brewing gear: a 50+L (some 11+ gallon) BIAB system...

I feel like I'm interested in digging deep into yeast. I'd like to study, cultivate, separate strains, all that and perhaps more. Have no background in microbiology whatsoever but willing to cover up for that. My question is what equipment I will need. Clean chamber with air filtration...

There is a kinda sect in diving, called DIR - Do It Right. They are indeed probably the best divers on planet Earth but other diving folks never stop joking behind their backs because of the air around DIR divers... you know, like The Divers. The Ones Who Know The Truth. :) Only black dive...

Are there any known examples of successful commercial brewing on an "in-a-bag/basket/bucket" setup? Doesn't have to be big, but needs to be an established commercial brewery. Would be nice to know how this technology can manage heavier workload, strict consistency requirements and all that.

I'm modifying my setup, and part of it is making a few holes in pretty tough 2.5 mm stainless steel pots. I had drilled SS before (very little fun) but never done that on curved surface. What do you people think is the best tool for the job? The best way to make a hole in a kettle (or whatever...

Just a quick question gentlemen... What exactly is low power density? I don't mean definition, I mean numbers. Like, 20W per 1 square cm - is it low density? (I believe it is not). 10W/cm^2? 5? 2? At exactly how many watts per square cm or inch do we agree it is a low power density...

Hi guys I was wondering about how to pass copper tubes through stainless steel kettle wall. I am going to install a coil inside the kettle for dual usage as HERMS heat exchange and after boil pre-chiller. If it was stainless steel tube I'd weld it and that would be it but it is copper. (why...

Copper and zinc, right? OK, they say tossing a few pence in the kettle will solve the copper problem but what about zinc? Has anyone ever tried simply emptying a vial of liquid zinc gluconate into the kettle or fermenter? There isn't much - 5 ml usually - so it'd hardly set the taste off, but...

Hi, I bought an American Pale Ale whole grain kit and will brew some day next week. However the leaflet included in the kit reads: mash at so-and-so temperature, in 12L of water, then sparge at so-and-so with 18L of water. (total brewing volume should be 25L, and about 20L to ferment) The...

Gents, I know this question is popped up every now and again but the problem is everyone who asks has his own stack of titles to choose from! OK I have read Randy Mosher's Mastering Homebrew (great work) and now I'm having the following sitting on the corner of my desk: - I Hornsey...

Sorry guys if this sounds absurd, I'm a new kid in brewing and sometimes have "bright" ideas... :o OK, now I'm playing with an idea to use a spray head at the end of kettle to fermenter transfer line. Suppose we sanitize the spray head and the fermenter, then insert the head into fermenter...