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Hello, Recently picked up a nitrogen tank for free from a local homebrewer. He warned me that the screw on the regulator was slightly bent (it was free, so I can't complain). It's the screw which increases or decreases the pressure. I have tried unscrewing it to either replace it or put it in...

Took off my liquid and gas posts in order to clean out a finished keg. When hooking the keg back up, I noticed that the gas post was stuck in the "open" position, meaning the piece you pull in order to hook it up to the gas post was locked in the pulled back position. I also notice that my CO2...

Was planning on doing my first batch with Philly Sour soon. Reading through some of the other threads, I've seen people say 2 packs for a 5 gal batch is ideal, and that it doesn't do well repitched. I was wondering if anybody had success with a yeast starter. Buying two packs plus shipping is...

Brewed a milk stout, OG 1.070, with half a pound of lactose. Fermentation looked great the first few days. Dropped from 1.070 to 1.039 in three days when airlock activity stopped entirely. I tried placing the fermenter in a warm bath tub and swirling the wort gently to restart fermentation, I...

Currently experimenting with pressure fermentation in a corny keg. I've read a lot about people saying the biggest drawback to fermenting in a corny is that you get a little bit of trub and yeast while transferring. My first thought was "Oh, that stinks. Less beer." But my second thought was...

Fermenting under pressure in a corny keg. Filled up to the weld, pressurized to 10 psi, attached spunding valve, and let sit overnight. By morning, pressure was at 0. I checked for leaks with star san and there were no bubbles. Tightened gas and liquid post, re-seated the lid, even went through...

When kegging in the past, I would purge my keg with CO2, open up, put my hose all the way to the bottom, and auto-siphon from my fermenter. Pretty standard. I would love to avoid opening up the keg if at all possible, though. My thinking was to hook up my line from the auto-siphon to a barb that...

Brewed up a Belgian Blond Ale today. I'm brewing on an Anvil Foundry 10.5 and got nearly 70% Efficiency (a new high for me. Excited about dialing it in on this thing. Still relatively new to me). Recipe down below, but I'm relatively new to Belgian beers. Any tips/feedback/thoughts on the...

Hey, I want to make a fruited Gose, but I think the best way to impart the fruit flavor I want is to add either puree or fresh fruit or something into the primary a few days after fermentation has started. My question is, if I'm adding it in to the primary, what's the best way to calculate the...

Recently brewer an American Wheat Beer. Recipe Below. Ended up with a slightly lower efficiency that I wanted. Forgot to ask the homebrew shop to double crush. I know my PH ended up being just slightly high as well—about 5.6. Might add some acidulated malt next time to compensate. First...

Just got a spunding valve and am planning on fermenting my next beer under pressure in a corny keg set to around 10 psi. For pressure transfers, I've heard you need to equalize pressure between the two kegs, and that you can do this by hooking up the Serving Vessel (SV) to a regulator set to the...

Putting together a mash tun using an old 5 gal cooler. I got the necessary hardware (Dernord 1/2 inch stainless ball valve system) and attached the new spigot. Maybe it's just my cooler, but there's enough insulation that the 1/2" hex nipple doesn't quite have enough space on both sides for the...

Made a whiskey stout from a Brewer's Best extract kit. Followed the instructions to the letter, and our SG was 1.040 instead of the 1.065 the kit projected. My buddy and I have no idea why. Our fermenter was even under the 5 gallon mark by about 1/4 gallon, so we didn't overfill or anything. FG...

I looked through a few old forum posts, but there wasn't much info on this, so I thought I'd ask again: I want to bourbon barrel age a stout, but they're a bit expensive and impractical for me to try right now. I've also wanted to add coffee beans to a stout. Thought I'd kill two birds. I have...

Did a ginger beer recently - finished a little dryer than I wanted (1.012). Not a big deal. Bottled it (3 oz. Priming sugar mix to 3 gal batch), and I was worried that it was going to over carbonate and become a bottle bomb, so I burped the bottles a few times (they were reusable bottles), and...

So, I want to consistently stop my mead fermentation at a certain FG so it has a little bit of residual sugar left. I've tried cold crashing it and racking it, but in the past, fermentation has started up again when I bottled it (even had a bottle explode on me once. Whoops). As far as I can...