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Selling all my brewing stuff after 1 use. I thought I would have time to get back into my hobby but not entirely the case. So up for grabs are the following: Grainfather G30 110V all in one system with all necessary attachments to include the counter flow chiller. Works amazing andonly used...

Question regarding bottle conditioning as I haven’t done it in over 2 years. I have my experimental Dunkel ale that I bottled Monday and decided to check the process and so far carbonation looks like it’s going well no volcanos and such. However I noticed a small sulfur taste to is. Everything...

Last night during bottling I had my caps sitting in a small plastic bowl with sanitizer and my wife mentioned a weird smell described it as rotten eggs. Mind you this was 3/4 of the way through the bottling. The beer smelled fine and looked fine but does star San interact weird with some plastics?

Hey odd ass question but I recently got back into brewing and my family adopted a cat not long ago. The cat loves getting onto things, to include my Anvil crucible. So how much could this end up effecting beers if at all. I’m switching up to a glycol setup soon but but concerned that something...

So drawing up a belgian blond with 11# pils, 0.5# aromatic and 2# candi sugar clear. East kent goldings 1oz at 60 min and 1 oz at 10 min. Yeast is lellamand abbye ale 2 packets. Mash at 150 with a mash out at 167. 60 min boil. System is the Grainfather G30 110v

If you had to choose between starting to can beers or having a glycol chiller for temp control which would you pick and why? I am looking at getting either the brewbuilt glycol chiller or the cannular top can seamer. Any advice would be great.

Ok so I haven’t brewed in 6 months due to having a child, buying a house, dropping my claw hammer and breaking it. So I bought a Grainfather as a Christmas gift to myself. I have wanted to brew a Dunkel for awhile just have no way to control my fermentation temp. So I reached out to my LHBS for...

So brewed a clone of Allagash’s Tripel using WLP500 for my yeast. Used 2 packs made a 1 liter starter. Fermented at room temperature between 68-72 within the parameters. Around the first week to 10 days the smell when pulling a sample was pleasant with some fruit and bubblegum like aromas. But...

Need some help on why this wheat may have gone sour. It was brewed mid Aug opened a bottle today notice a sour smell may a bit like ester. Taste was sour nothing like a wheat as I wanted. Mashed at 155 for 60 mins, biab system. Fermented for 5 days in primary then 10 days in secondary with fresh...