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I've done a lot of thread research on portable setups. Over the years I have amassed a few arrangements depending on the situation: 2 tap jockey box, big trash can lined with contractor bags and filled with ice (holds 3 kegs), and using 2 liter PET bottles filled via a modified BMBF. Most...

Hi- a few weeks ago I bought a used 2 tap jockey box. I'm getting it ready for a party next week. I was repaving the Sanke connections to accommodate Corny kegs and was proceeding to flush t lines with BLC. I noticed the extra Ports on the plate chiller....this looks like a 3 beer plate...

Got lucky and scored a jockey box setup for a song. I bought it mainly for the full tank and regulator. However, now that I have the jockey box I might as well make use of it...it's in great condition. I did some keyword searches here, but am obviously not using the right keywords. I just know...

Ok - Used rinsed Pacman (2nd use) sourced from Wyeast. OG 1.053...FG 1.008!?? Pacman is highly attenuative, that I know. I use it a lot. I mashed at 155 so I wasn't expecting this. I fermented at appropriate temperatures - low 60's for Pacman. NO simple sugars in recipe. I tasted...

I'm buying a 50 of two row. I have a Food Saver vacuum sealer. I was thinking about splitting into 5 pound bags using the Food Saver and storing in freezer. Is that ok, or are there other viable methods? Just wanting to hear thoughts from those that bulk buy. I don't have a ton of space at...

I brew beer. I've done some reading re: wine making, but not much. I am making wine because my sweetheart asked me to make some wine. Admittedly, I have not been attentive to the wine. To the question: I bought some fresh cabernet grape juice trucked in via reefer to the LHBS. The store had...

I am making wine for the first time. Been brewing beer for about 3 years. Yesterday I racked my wine. There was some residue at the bottom after the initial rinse. I put in some warm water and Oxyclean. That nearly always works for beer stuff. Used my carboy cleaner attached to a cordless...

Been brewing 2 years, no infections, etc. Here's the situation: On 8/3 I brewed and transferred to my plastic carboy once down to pitching temp. I was waiting for yeast starter to get at the "right" point for pitching that evening, then bam! Had to leave town for business unexpectedly, then...

Hi - I have really grown to love APA's. I was a long courtship, but I'm now truly in love. Bordering on obsession. I travel to Salt Lake City frequently for work. I am just crazy about Wyld Extra Pale Ale. It's a session strength (4%) beer, lovely color, and pleasantly hoppy (IBU of 29)...

I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while. When I started brewing a few years ago, like many I started with a “deluxe starter kit” from my LHBS. It contained a 6.5 gallon glass carboy as the fermenter. Over time, I have converted my brewing to Better Bottles. This post will detail the “why”...

I've got about 6 oz of homegrown Cascade in my freezer. I harvested them last September. I used most in a witbier (along with some pellet hops), but thought I'd see what my hops tasted like with little interference. This was my first harvest, so I'm guessing the AA% is low??? A SMASH came to...

Hi - Brewed a Southern Brown ale and pitched yeast on 2/27. Kept wort betweem 64-66 deg (cool side of optimum range - used Wyeast 1968 with an 1800ml starter from stirplate). OG: 1.047 (expected was 1.042...got better efficiency than anticipated) Current Gravity: 1.011 (expected was...

Last night I brewed a PM recipe similar to this on HBT: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f71/belgian-pale-ale-117569/ The actual recipe I used was the mini-mash version of the Yellow Diamond Belgian Pale Ale recipe from Mosher's book, Radical Brewing. I do not keg, so it will be bottle...

I am a novice brewer who is just now starting to mess with adapting recipies to my tastes. I have .5 lb of torrified wheat left over from a recipe I brewed late last fall. Its been in a Ziploc. Question one: is it still usable? Don't know much about shelf life of grains. Question...

I've got 3.5# of dark liquid extract that I need to use and have been looking for recipes that might work. I have a partial mash London Porter recipe I've made before that calls for 4# of dark extract. I'm not sure what grain ingredients to modify to make up for the "missing" half pound...

I've been brewing about 7 months - about 15 batches under my belt, nearly all partial mash. I bought a Austin Homebrew kit - Texas Bock. This is my first lager. I brewed it, did a gallon yeast starter using White Labs 830, German Lager. (I know best would have been a bock yeast, but this was...

I've been brewing about 7 months - about 15 batches under my belt, nearly all partial mash. I bought a Austin Homebrew kit - Texas Bock. This is my first lager. I brewed it, did a gallon yeast starter using White Labs 830, German Lager. (I know best would have been a bock yeast, but this was...

Last night I racked off and bottled some brew. :) Lovely being on Christmas holiday. Normally I immediately rinse my siphon hose with very warm water after racking to bottling bucket and hang to dry. I did that last night, but thought... "Hmmm, I'm on vacation, we're stuck in the snow...

I was brewing this morning. I had my strike water at right temp, put in grain bag, pot lid, and set my timer like normal. Timer went off. Iodine test showed non-conversion. I checked temp and it had dropped a bit low (mid 140's), so I turned on the heat. I was having trouble getting temp back...

Just completed my first PM. Brewed AHS Session Brown Porter with WPL002 English Ale yeast. Currently wort in carboy with fermentation lock in place. Only has about 1/2 as much volume needed. I got over enthusiastic chilling my wort - it's about 65. My sanitized (preboiled and stored in...