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Hi all. I have a keg that appears to have worn through the bottom to the rubber with two small sized holes. Is this keg still safe to use assuming regular sanitation or because of the missing bottom is it shot? It still appears to hold water and gas. Go figure. I have a picture but don’t...

So I live out in the country and I’ve noticed a nasty smell in my garage over the last week or two. The good news is found it today the bad news is it was coming from my 5 gal igloo mashtun. The mashtun is was in good shape until this. Big question is will it be safe to use if I throughly clean...

I recently brewed a triple. The beer could be delicious if it was only bitter enough. I'm not sure what happened but I cant taste any bitterness at all. I dumped a dry hop bag in thinking I'd get maybe a little aroma or something. Nada, the beer overpowers it. I managed to grab a taste of some...

Quick question. I'm making a starter for a Cali Common and I'm wondering can I ferment at room temp or do I need to ferment at 62 degrees, the temp called for on the final recipe? Not sure if the yeast or the beer I don't decant will pick up off flavors in the new wort.

I bought this aerator stone pump about a year ago and it's done pretty well by me. Recently I noticed a bit of moisture had accumulated inside the clear output tube feeding into the filter and the moisture contained trace amounts of mold. To be safe I wanted to order a new filter for it but the...

I'm having a tough time understanding the concept of FG. Now that I'm brewing big IPAs I'm looking to obtain a sweeter beer, which implies that the beer needs to finish higher, but I'm also trying to figure out how to manage this without ending fermentation too soon or drying the beer up. The...

I've been having trouble with my taps getting sticky and last night took the cake when i tried to pull an IPA and had to use so much force that I broke the brass handle while the beer was tricking out at nearly full speed. Anyways I ordered some replacement SS levers but I'm trying to figure...

I have been soaking some oak cubes and bourbon in a ziplock Baggie for over a month now. Today in a senior moment my wife managed to lodge the Baggie between a cabinet and the microwave puncturing the bag and leaking most of the bourbon out. She then put the Baggie in the sink to clean the up...

I took the advice of some of you and decided to dry hop in the keg for this latest IPA. I didn't do anything extravagant, I just filled a sanitized paint strainer, tied the bag shut and dropped it into the keg. It's been about two weeks now and the beer is doing nicely but I'm getting ALOT...

I'm going to pose what would probably be a stupid question but I think my brain tells me there's some logic to it so I'm gonna go with it. I have been extract brewing for years now and have changed my procedures a bit such that I fill the brew kettle with very little water and instead brew...

Since I started brewing years ago I made a conscious decision to skip 2ndary. A lot of this decision was based on feedback in this forum. Since I had a couple of batches go south and I didn't see the benefit of risking exposing the beer to another transfer stage I just didn't do it. Well...

I kegged a DIPA a couple of weeks ago and I had quite a difficult time racking in between the trub and the dry hop mess all over the top. I managed to get everything in there but apparently a lot of hops went in with it, so much so that it clogged the out tube and made the beer untapable. In...

I just pushed a high gravity double IPA into secondary tonight and I was planning on pouring my new recipe (porter) on top of the yeast cake after siphoning but I was not able to align my schedule to finish both beers on the same night. The question is how risky is it to pour on top of a...

Hi guys, I recently lost my Bev Air BM23 (along with the rest of my house) in a fire. My insurance does not require I replace with the EXACT unit but I can replace with with a similarly VALUED unit. For the most part the unit gave me trouble. I bought it used off CL and I often struggled...

I have some older plastic 5 gal fermenters, maybe 4-5 years old. Battle worn but still worthy, maybe. Permanent stains from idophor and beer with the occasional krausen stains that I can't seem to get out. At what point does one retire the buckets or is it ths sorta thing where you use it...

I thought I had read somewhere on here that dumping wort on top of the trub of an fresh batch is fine, in fact I've been doing it off an on for about a year now. Somewhere I recall someone saying that when you put wort on top of old trub that you should "go darker" (light ale to dark, etc.)...

I have regularly noticed when sanitizing my fermenting vessels (in particular white ones) that after 15 minutes or so that containers that were once pristine take in these random block spots and flakes inside them. I can only guess this is being left behind by the idophor because the container...

I'm making a starter tonight for some Notty. The pack states the importance of hydrating the yeast with water before pitching but it occurred to me why can't I skip the hydration step and pour the dry yeast directly into the cooled down starter wort? It's mostly water anyways. What's the point...

Tonight I was brewing a recipe that called for 6lbs of pale extract and 1 lb of DME. The last 10 minutes in when I was ready to add the yeast nutrient I realized that I forgot to add in the 1lb of DME. After going over the pro's and con's of throwing in DME for the last 10 minutes of the boil...

About a week and a half ago I brewed a starter using some washed London Ale yeast WLP013 (I believe) and a pint and a half of DME. I had fully intended to get a brew going that week but got sidetracked to the point where I couldn't get to it. Here I am a week and a half later and I'm...