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I am starting to "force carbonate" my beers and had a question about volumes of C02. I want to do the set to a set PSI and leave for a week to carbonate but don't have the ability to keep the keg in a 38-40 degree area so I am carbonating it at 50 degrees. My question is, if i carbonate to 2.5...

I was thinking about using corny keg to try to do primary fermentation in but i would like to have immersion temp control with it. Has anyone heard of or tried to use the ftss coil and drill the holes in the side of the corny keg to use as temp control? It should work giving the coil length...

So I recently moved and had my keezer with kegs, c02 bottle etc in storage for a few months. When I moved into my new house I opened my keezer and saw my mash paddle covered in black mold and numerous brewing equipment parts with slight mold on it. (The mash paddle looks the worst). My question...

So, i made my first batch of mead yesterday. I was following the staggered nutrient addition process. When I went to add my first addition (24 hours) the must foamed like crazy all over the place. I was wondering if there is a way to reduce that? Also, when/how do you recommend de gassing the...

I purchased a book last week called "The Craft of Stone Brewing Co." It is a very good book with a lot of their recipes, which is cool if you like their beers. The question I have is this. In their recipes, they say the pitch rate for a particular beer is 12-14...That's all it says. It doesn't...

So i have read a lot about people using gelatin or just storing their kegs for awhile in a fridge for clarification. The question i have is wouldnt that just force the particulates to the bottom and then be sucked up by the pick up tube? In my soda kegs, my pick up tube goes down to the very...

So I was transferring beer into fermenter and as it got to the bottom of the kettle, I saw a bee sitting in the wort. I stopped transferring as soon as I saw it. Will it be ruined from bacteria? Please help!!

I am trying to shorten my brew day and I hear a lot of people talking about starch conversion. The question I have is, what is the benefit of letting a mash rest for 60-90 min. If starch conversion is complete at 20 min, are there any reasons why I should let it go for a full 60 min? I read a...

I’ve been AG brewing for about a year now and started at the 2 cooler mash tun and HLT combo. I then switched to BIAB in a kettle and had issues with losing as much as 10 degrees during winter during a one hour mash. This past weekend I tried BIAB in a cooler and ran into some weird issues...

this is the first year I’ve attempted at growing hops. The weather here in northern Utah is still a little weird so i decided to start them in pots indoors. I had some shop lights and some 3k and 6.5k fluorescent bulbs laying around. Is this method advised? I seem to have a few sprouts popping...

Hey everyone. I have brewed 8 1g batches now and am hooked. I am wanting to upgrade to a larger pot for 5-10g batches but I don't think spending hundreds of dollars just for a boil kettle is worth it. I would rather spend the extra money in fermentation temp control etc. I was wondering if...

This is my first time posting on this site and to be honest first couple times brewing. I went strait for all grain because it just seems neat. Its been a few days not and I am not getting ANY air bubbles in my airlock. I have read online that it doesnt mean a bad fermentation, but I know it...