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I had my water tested from my hot water heater to see if there was any difference than the water straight from my tap. I did this because if the water is ok to brew with, it would save me some time heating up strike water. Anyway here is my results from 2011 ward report. pH 9.9 Total...

Anyone have any experience with the BBQ guru for a WSM? Been looking at them and they seem pretty nice, but for 300$ not sure if I could just build one myself.

I love brewing on Friday night!!

I have no plain 2 row at the house right now, what I do have is 18lb of Weyermann Munich Malt. I also have a number of Crystal and specialty malts. The problem is all I have are American Hops, and I need to use them up. I have Chinook, Simcoe, Centennial hops. Here is what I was...

Hi I'm planning to do a 10 gallon batch of a grain bill of 10lb Pils 8lb White Wheat Malt 2lb Flaked Wheat 1lb Oats What I want to do is split this in 1/2 after the boil and pitch 1/2 with wlp300 and 1/2 with wlp400 My problem is the spice additions. I was thinking of taking some...

I'm brewing a extra stout sometime soon and I need some help with the mineral additions. Grain bill is 14# 2 row .75# Roasted Barley 10oz Crystal 40 10oz Crystal 80 .5# Chocolate Malt starting water is Sodium, Na 50 Potassium, K 6 Calcium, Ca 20 Magnesium, Mg 20 Total...

Ok I just got my water tested, now what is this telling me??? pH 9.9 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est 287 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.48 Cations / Anions, me/L 4.9 / 5.3 ppm Sodium, Na 50 Potassium, K 6 Calcium, Ca 20 Magnesium, Mg 20 Total Hardness, CaCO3 133 Nitrate, NO3-N...

Just as the title says. I got a Kolsch that is going to need to be racked off the primary in a week or so and i want to save the yeast. Any other styles this yeast is good for? Anyone use this for a ALT style?.

recipe for 5 gal. Per Beer Calculus OG 1.052 IBU 41 (tinseth) 4LB Pilsner 4LB American Two-row Pale 1LB Munich Malt 1LB American Crystal 10L 8oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine 60 mins 0.5oz Warrior 15 mins 1.0oz Cascade 1 min 1.0oz Centennial Mash...

Here is my stir plate I put together a while ago. I had all the parts laying around the house. I used a cigar box. I cheated and hooked it up to a variable power supply I have for building and testing circuits. and here is a couple of action shots. I thought I had a...

Hi I have a Bock that need to have ready by 11-27. I started making the starter yesterday and will step up a couple of times before i brew it on Sunday or Monday. My question is this. I usually ferment for 4 weeks. I see that i should lager this for 4 weeks. Well i'm going to have...

Hi I have an question regaurding a high FG on my latest beer. It was supposed to be a honkers clone recipe is 10lb 8oz British Pale (Maris Otter) 1lb 0oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L 1lb 0oz American White Wheat 39 0lb 2oz Roasted Barley Yeast was safale 04 pitched 1 packet...

First off I need to thank all my friends and family that help me build this rig, and also all the great people on this board. This would not have happened if it was not for this board. I didn't get too many pictures of the whole building proccess but i figured i would add to the pics of...

and the increase of sales of craft brews. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/DCF953D9C256817B862576B700171409?OpenDocument good little article.

Hi I've got 2 regulators. Can i just attach one to the other through one of the highpressure side ports to make a dual regulator or am i missing something?

I have a problem with a Hefe I bottled about 18 days ago. When I went to bottle I overheated the corn sugar and it made a thick goo when I cooled it down too fast, so I heated it back up and poured it into my bottle bucket. Well when I was done bottling there was a bunch of the sugar stuck...