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This yr i did fairly well. just finished vac-sealing everything that was drying. Hartwhick - 24oz from 3 plants which is good considering growth was hindered by some Downey mildew that took a bit of work to get rid of and i had a 3rd plant elsewhere that was cut from my main plants last yr...

so my big beautiful bev-air two tower stainless kegerator bit the dust. it's old and uses R12. was found yrs ago and given to me for free and I got about 4 or 5 yrs out of it. but it's no longer getting cold and compressor is making a heck of a racket and most likely shot. so my problem is I...

This is how my two hartwicks look. I tore out all the really bad bines down to the root and left the good ones but now the biggest good one is starting to discolor. We did get a lot of rain the last week and some of the roots have popped out of the ground so i added more soil to the raised bed...

So I ordered grain for a nut brown and some extra specialty grain and didn't tell the homebrew shop to keep it separate when i placed the order online. 100% my fault. that said, what I have is a bag with these milled grains and their denominations. Pale Ale Base Grain Malt - 12 lb Caramel...

so i ordered ingredients for bier munchers brown ale. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/aberdeen-brown-ale-newcastle-clone-ag.36912/ decided to order 8 oz of roasted barely so i had some extra to play around with. forgot to tell them i wanted it separate. here is the grain bill of the...

So I just pulled all of my Hartwhick from last yr out of the freezer. every vacuum sealed bag is loose and there are ice crystals inside it. I opened every bag and they are wet to the touch and not very aromatic. they were in the back of the freezer so i never noticed. every one of my Arcadians...

Session Belgian I planned to secondary on blueberry puree. came in at 3-4% and I fermented it at around 70 ish degrees. finished last week ( I thought) but couldn't get to it today and had nowhere cold to put it and it's been 90's regularly. It smells sourish also.

Just came back from my regular CO2 guy (the only guy in my area) they were charging walk ins 5$ cash for a 5lb tank as a favor to home brewers. The owner caught them soooo not anymore. Brought 2 5lb tanks in to get filled not knowing things changed. $25. except, he only charged me for one...

Yeah, it dawned on me today while out on the deck that I never cut down my bines. I read to leave them up for the first yr so they can pull energy from the leave and bines. then it got cold and I totally forgot to trim them down. they were 2nd yr plants I bought but first yr in their location...

I have an old dual corney that needs to be rebuilt. I found some kits cheap but this thing is a little beat up but looks solidly built. Is it worth fixing up and will it last for a bit or should I look for a new one? I have a keg-co reg I bought 3 yrs ago when I first got into kegging and that...

ok, so I stumbled upon the idea of using spent grains for dog biscuits instead of my mulch pile. So I found this recipie on a craft breweries web site. 4 cup spent grains 2 cups flour 1 cup PB 2 eggs. Bake at 350 for 30 mins. Bake at 250 for 2 hrs to dry out. I had no idea what I was doing...

With it getting cold out i'm looking for cheap alternatives to using my kitchen stove with BIAB. My pot is so big I have to take it off to pull the bag because of the vent. I have one of these in my basement just sitting there. Easy to hook up and I have a basement window I can vent it with...

So I brewed myself a 5 gallon batch of biermunchers centenial blonde. It was great and I hit my numbers so I decided to brew a double batch and came in low on the OG even though I just doubled the grain bill. I used the same mill on the same settings. I thought it was because i had more than 11...

Just carbed up centennial blonde in two different pin locks. Bother were disassembled and soaked before kegging. One is blowing bubbles like bubble bath in whirlpool tube. Checked to make sure the out connector has the dip tube. I also purged the keg and it doesn't help plus I can see excess CO2...

In threw this together a few weeks back following what I think is a standard hop schedule and had a question about the Vienna malt I threw in because it was hanging around. 7lb 2 row .5lb Vienna .25 CTZ 60min. .25 equinox 15 min .25 equinox 5 min Sf-05 yeast Dry hop with .25 eukanot 92%...

Have 4 potted hops plants from rhizoams i'm moving to my parents garden next week when my dad is back from vacation. two of the plants were doing really well. A couple of feet tall and climbing the stick i put in the pot. yesterday I came home and almost all the leaves are gone from the tall...

2.5 gallons Aldi apple juice Premier Blanc 2 walmart frozen apple juice concentrate for sweetening. So I fermented it out and sort of forgot about in my fermentation chamber for a few months in the primary. Tasted good but dry so I just racked it into my keg and added 2 cans of frozen apple...

I got my cascade and tettnanger rhizomes in about a week ago from yakima hops. It's currently 37 here in WNY but it's been low 30's the last few days and there is almost a ft of snow on the ground. I got these guys in their shipped bags which are now open inside zip-lock bags with a damp paper...

yrs ago I worked as a food service equipment tech. this was in the back of the warehouse and was going to get tossed. So I grabbed it. It's supposedly came off a sausage stuffing machine. Never saw the machine myself as it was before my time. It's been in my basement for about 17 yrs and...

never saw this before. AG Wheat beer. BIAB The yeast was harvested from Bell's winter ale. I grew up enough for a 1 gallon test batch but after 3 weeks it finished at 1.025. Probably due to the extremely difficult time I had keeping the wort at temp in my cold kitchen. I threw in the hops and...