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I am at a bar and I see the manager walk by with this keg. Two sanke connections one of which looks broken and two other... Ports? Is there a name and/or use for this bad boy?

I had a second hand Spartan keg with a broken handle and wasn't crazy about spending half the cost of the keg on a new handle, nor was I feeling particularly like working with metal so I hired a friend to craft something up for me. This is the second revision and still needs to be cleaned up a...

So I dropped by an artist friend's studio located in a scrapyard and got a nice tour. I found 4 pallets of of counterflow chillers, one of which I think will be great for my future brew rig. The owner wast there so I couldnt get a price on any of those. From the tags I saw most of these...

So I am moving into having more long term batches than I have ready table space, as with my fermentation chamber I want to go vertical! Also, I want to proudly display batches of apfelwein and the like somewhere not in a closet so these need to look interesting. Ive seen some really cool...

Ive spent the last two nights checking out some local spots and tonight I have a tough decision to make New Belgium brewery is 5 min from my hotel Sierra Nevada brewery is 20 min from my hotel... Im having a really tough time choosing between the two (and I probably shouldnt do both...

I made a batch of Yooper's Pale ale following the recipe to a T. Unfortunately I must have been somewhat inebriated on bottling day because out of 12 batches bottled so far its the ONE that I did not make any notes on bottling day. The issue is that past he first bottle (opened ~10 days...

I decided it was time to make a stir plate since I had... most everything laying around. I initially purchased magnets from harbor freight, but those more or less sucked and I quickly tore apart an old hard drive for a free much stronger magnet. I cut a bunch of holes in a cigar box and...

I made a 5gal SMASH with Marris Otter and Challenger 10lbs Marris Otter 1oz Challenger 60min .5oz Challenger 30min .5oz Challenger 15min .5oz Challenger 0min .5oz Challenger dry hop 7 days safe ale 05 yeast I brewed on the 10th OG 1.055 by the 22nd the samples were consistent at...

I have been brewing BIAB all grain since I started, but I recently acquired a Diabolo can as part of a bulk equipment buy. I want to make this up today and I know that prehopped LME can be made without a boil, but since its an old can I feel like the hops may have dissipated a bit. I also want...

So this week I decided that Ive maxed out my fermentation capacity at 4x 1 gallon carboys in a mini fridge from college... And I also decided it was time to do something about that! My main concerns are having a small footprint, and at least meeting my near future demands/goal of being able...

I saw an ad for free bottles, of which I know I will need. I dropped a line for the bottles, and went out on a limb "any chance you have a kettle for sale" He shot back 8 gal SS kettle for $40 I ran to the other side of town today and brought a wad of cash assuming there might be more...

Today I had a bunch of firsts First brew outside First brew with propane (instead of an electric stove) First brew with nylon sparge bag (instead of cloth sack from previous kits) Let me say, even with a borrowed rusty propane burner, temps were quicker to get to, and easier to maintain for the...

So today started great, the quick trip to a LHBS turned into 2 hrs and (only) $80. I made 2 gallons of wort and as soon as I started my boil the **** hit the fan. Work called with an emergency, I tried to fend it off, however the urgency/money was too good. I made my boss come to my house to...

I have my first batch of beer ready to rack to bottles, and since I finally got my auto siphon Im ready too! (For some reason I had no problems racking batch 1 to the carboy, but batch 2 proved very frustrating to rack, so I grabbed an auto siphon from amazon since it seems to be one of the few...

I just saw this gem while perusing Amazon, someone obviously didnt know what the product was, or how to use it...

I have a can of 1982 world's fair beer that I found many months back at an antique store. I'm considering popping this bad boy open and trying the beer, do I need to consider anything aside from throwing this in the fridge overnight?

So for my first homebrew project I built a temperature controller with an Inkbird ITC and a bunch of spare junk I had laying around. I didnt take any pictures during the process, but its all self explanatory, and the wiring diagram is as the manufacturer specified. I used an old cigar box I...

Hi, I have previously attempted a Mr Beer kit back in college and was underwhelmed with the barely passable beer that I ended up with. Roughly a decade later I saw the brew kit on bespoke post last month that seemed like a good deal with a 1 gallon glass carboy and all grain BIAB process...