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I'm considering upgrading my 1bbl system to electric (two vessel, BK and mash tun). I have purchased two 5500w elements for the boil kettle. I have an extremely insulated mash tun (200qt) that holds temp quite well with all that thermal mass from this large of a batch, so no need for an element...

Hi, new to winemaking, been a homebrewer for about 3 years now. I just picked 25lbs of sweet cherries (VERY sweet, almost black in color and oh so delicious) and was going to make some wine with it. I was planning on making 5 gallons of it. So I have been reading up on it, and just wanted to...

For some reason my LHBS doesnt sell any hop bags besides those muslin ones. I don't like using those ones much more than a couple times, and so I was thinking of replacements. Obviously I could just order some nylon hops bags online, but since I own a small sewing company, I have tons and tons...

Last night I made an IPA on my new BIAB setup. This was only my 3rd AG ever, and my first IPA with this setup. Things went pretty well besides missing my mash temp big time at first, it was at 160 for about a minute or two before I quickly added cold water and got it down to 153. At the end of...

So its been 10 days since my double brew day, an APA and a brown ale. On both the APA and brown, I hit my OG's exactly, 1.055 for APA, and 1.048 for the brown. At 7 days in the primary, I took a gravity reading on both of them. APA was 1.020 and brown was 1.019. A little high for 7 days I...

Well my first AG batch was finished tonight. It was blacklab's orange pale recipe (brewed that thing at least 5 times with extract), and i hit the OG spot on. I used BIAB with a second pot for sparging. I read so much on here before finally making the plunge to AG, and it looks like it paid...

Hi, I've been brewing for years with extracts, and have finally bought all the equipment to go all grain. For simplicity purposes, and living in an apartment, I have choose to try BIAB. Since I am brewing my first batch tomorrow (my favorite pale) I would really like some last minute feedback to...

So I have finally made the switch to all grain after years of extract brews. Only problem is, I live in an apartment, so full-scale propane burners and stuff arent really an option. Because of these limitations I was thinking about just making 2.5 gallons batches, and BIAB appealed to me...

So after a year and a half of extract brewing (~15 batches), I am finally ready to move on to all grain. After looking at all the different ways of going all-grain, I tend to like the looks of the brew in a bag method. I live in an apartment, so not much room, and it looks promising as a way to...

Hi, I've been out of the homebrewing loop for about a year now, but now its time to start it back up! One of things that frustrated me in previous times of brewing was keeping the temperature right. I was constantly having to monitor it and worry it was too high. Although I made quite a few...

Hi, I tried some of Mac and Jacks beers a few years ago when visiting a friend in Seattle, and I loved them, especially African Amber. This summer I will be doing a bike tour from Canada down to Mexico along the pacific coast, are there any places that are along the coastline that serve M&J's? I...

So my good friend just purchased a restaurant/bar a few weeks ago, and me and him were talking the other day, and he wanted me to sell homebrew at his bar, but I told him that I am pretty sure that there are laws/rules against that, making it really difficult to do. Since he already has an...

OK, so I brewed up a dunkel earlier, and everything was going good until I added the hops. For some reason, I had in mind that it was only a 1oz bag, so I put in half of it, since I was only doing a 2.5gallon batch. But it was actually a 2oz bag. The hops are northern brewer pellets. I...

OK, so I'm asking someone to help me out real quick. I was all excited to brew today, and have all the ingredients, but I go to weigh out some of the stuff, and I cant find my scale (my brew closet is like the Bermuda triangle), and theres alot of small scale stuff in the recipe so I dont wanna...

Alot of my beers have turned out somewhat cloudy, and most clear up over time, but this one is by far the clearest I've ever had. its a vienna honey lager. irish moss at 15 left in the boil is the only clearing agent. My first lager though, so maybe everyones lagers are this clear? i dont know...

OK, so this was my first time brewing with nottingham. Ive always used S-05 as my clean ale yeast, but they had just got a new shipment of notty in, so I figured I would try it out. I threw it into a 1.054 american pale saturday evening after rehydrating. Before I went to bed I checked it, and...

I just bought some Cascade from LHBS and they are listed as 7.6AA on the package. They are still brand new in the package, but they say 2008 crop on them. They are whole leaf kind. Will I need to adjust the amount I use in a recipe since they are a year old? The recipe calls 1oz of pellet...

OK, so I was going to brew up blacklab's orange/cascade pale ale. It looks so good, and im pretty excited. Ive already got all the ingredients lined out except for the orange zest. My LHBS was out, but i guess Id rather use a fresh orange anyways. Now, would zesting an orange from the grocery...

I was just thinking the other day, now that I've been homebrewing, I usually have a beer a day now that I have so much bottled all the time. I was telling this to a friend and he acted surprised and said "...wow, you drink beer everyday, that cant be good". And that got me thinking...is it? I...

OK, so I brewed a cider about a month back, and its been sitting in the primary this whole time, and has cleaned up after itself quite well. It was fermented with notty and is down to 1.002, and tastes quite dry. I was planning on making it a still cider anyways, so I threw some sorbate in there...