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You didn't change the temperature did you? If you drop the temperature the pressure will drop.

I never got the runs from beer. Is that normal?

Yeah, I noticed NB took out the wheat as well. I've brewed two great NB Kolsch's in the past and just ordered the kit again without the wheat. I hope it's as good as the old recipe.

The AG version uses a lot of Marris Otter, which they sell at $2/lb. The extract version uses a generic "gold malt syrup". You could always use a more generic and cheaper base malt for the AG version and save some money.

Make sure the probe is tape over an area of the keg that contains liquid.

Yeah, making it look like furniture is the key. Right now I have what you see in the pictures above sitting in my living room and my girlfriend has been asking me to move it to another room. But she says she can't wait for it to be finished an have it in the living room, assuming it looks as...

I haven't been able to work on this for a while now, it's kind of sad. Though I have been enjoying cold beer on tap. I just moved last week to a bigger apartment. I'm now redesigning this to be a larger/wider bar with the built in keezer for beer on tap, but maybe with a refrigeration unit...

That's not an issue in my design, because the taps and shanks are not attached to the freezer or collar. I'm building a cabinet, so the taps will be on the back wall of the cabinet and the beer lines will just be feed through the back of the collar, up behind the wall of the cabinet, and then...

It looks like lead to me, but it's probably not. Is it soft, does it get nicks easily if you hit it on something?

That reminds me of the first time I went to Massachusetts, Cape Ann specifically. When the guy who ran the bed and breakfast I stayed at first spoke to me I almost laughed because I guess I didn't realize people spoke that way outside of the movies. I live in NYC now, but I'm from Arkansas...

So I just looked up most of these terms in a German dictionary and they're spelled very differently than the words we use in English. So I would just pronounce the words as you would using English pronunciations. But I still don't get why "wort" would be pronounced "wert". Maybe it's an...

I'm going to be in Germany for a week in the beginning of April. Does anyone have recommendations for good beer related places to go? I'm going to be in Berlin and Munich at least, but I'm thinking about traveling around small towns in Bavaria. I also speak German, so that helps with the...

As someone who speaks German, I can give you a few tips. The "w" in German is pronounced like the "v" in English. Wort is pronounced in German like the English word "vort," with a long O sound, no "er" sound. Wit, as in Witbier, is "vit". Tun is pronounced like "toon", as in cartoon...

Definitely go all grain and build a mash lauter tun out of water cooler. Then you'll just have to boil your wort and hot water on the stove. I never did partial mash, but it seems much more complicated without the same results. You can also find pots in all shapes and sizes. My 15 gallon...

Go with the heat stick. I live in a tiny apartment with one of those smaller sized gas stoves. I have a 15 gallon kettle and I have pushed over 11 gallons of water from 40 degrees to a boil in under an hour using the burners on the stove in addition to the heat stick.

So I played around with my three other new Perlicks and another one of the same shanks. Two of the other Perlicks attached fine and where relatively easy to remove from the shank. But another one of the Perlicks stuck to the shank, though I was able to get it off after quite a bit of tugging...

Has anyone else had this problem? I just got some new Perlick 525SS faucets and these shanks: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?products_id=10625. I put the faucet onto the shank, making sure that the threads were aligned properly, and then tried to tighten the nut all the way...

Good call. I thought I had scuffed up the PVC well enough. But after my first use of the heat stick, the JB weld had separated from the PVC and I could easily break it off. So I built another heatstick with a lot less JB weld on the outside and none on the PVC. It sucks that I ended up...

It is JB Weld. When playing with electricity I like to cover all my bases. I imagine you could get a good seal with a compression fitting alone, but I don't like to take chances. Hot water has the tendency to loosen fittings, so I wonder if it would have an effect on the PVC compression...

I got my new 15 gal megapot tonight and wanted to see how long it would take to boil 11.5 gals of water with my heat stick and stove combined. I have one of those smaller apartment gas stoves (with all four burners on) and just built this 1500 Watt heat stick. The water boiled in just under...