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Alright, so SWMBO is no longer SWMBO and I'm moving. I have a Schwarzbier that has been in the secondary for two weeks, wanting to leave it in there for another week and also I dont have enough bottles/time to bottle it. What is the easiest way to transport a full glass carboy? Would I be...

A few weeks ago I built my bottle drying rack. It holds 112 bottles (if I remember correctly) of any size well. It's just a 5 plastic shelving unit from walmart that I drilled 2" holes in. Today I built my counterflow chiller. I think they came out very satisfactory. Can't wait to use to CFC...

While searching my semi local Craigslist I found all this for $120. Only problem is it's over a pass that is really crappy in the winter (would take me up to 5 hours round trip). I want it badly but you all think it's worth the drive at that price? It's been up for over a week and may be gone...

In the beginning of this obsession one of the most fun parts was trying to think of a brewery name and design a logo upon that. Well now I'm stuck between a few names. I'm second generation US born German/Dutch so some of the names involve various gods from those regions (Odin and such). Two...

My second batch is in the primary now. Had to wait until I got hops so I could make it (Last time I was at a LHBS I forgot hops and the nearest one is 4 hours away or so). Its an Oatmeal stout and all went well in the process last night.

The one issue I had with my first brew was I scorched the stovetop. How do you prevent this from happening on a standard coil electric stovetop? I wanna do a brew here either today or tomorrow but would rather not piss SWMBO off more by scorching the stovetop again. Could it be as simple as...

I did some searching on the forums and found very little information on growing hops in a greenhouse successfully. So SWMBO said I can grow my own hops provided I grow them in a greenhouse. We have dogs and she has determined that hops are very toxic/fatal to dogs. Also, our dogs have a...

Was at the walmart today and decided to check if they had the turkey fryer propane burner kits cheaper than homers ($65ish, owch) and they had one that was missing some parts I could care less about for $30! Still got the 30qt pot, just need to buy some metal to make a support for the gauge...

Ok, so airlock activity (which does not indicate fermentation at all) has stopped almost all together on my first brew. Thus far I've resisted taking gravity readings (btw it was put in the fermenter 11/25/08, so fairly recently). So badly I want to take a gravity reading and do so for the next...

So SWMBO shows up at home and said there was something in the car that followed her home... and that I couldnt get mad about it. We have a lot of pets so I was thinking... **** another pet. And behold! A great package with all my supplies to start my first brew arrived one day early! Now for...

Now I ran a search on this but found next to null on what I was looking for. So sorry if it's a repost of a repost...etc. As far as checking the gravity of your beer's progress how do most of you do it? Do you just pop the lid and get beer out of there or siphon some? Place some in a...

Hello all, Being a college student I have grown to love my beer. Saves my sanity really. Just getting started with homebrewing and have some great hopes and ideas for the future of possibly owning my own brewpub... :tank: