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After a year of burning ice like crazy for recirculating ice water through my unitank's chilling coil, I decided it was finally time to look into a glycol solution for maintaining fermentation temps. Looking at all of the different commercial options and realizing that I really didn't want to...

Afternoon, I wanted to spread the word about a new Discord channel for homebrewers. It is setup to allow people to discuss all sorts brewing/fermenting topics, chat about new beers, get help with an issue, or just chat over some drinks. Here is a link: https://discord.gg/ANgNsrB Hope to see...

Looking on Amazon, there's a ton of different pH meters, but it seems a lot of them are the same thing just in different colors. For the most part, the different brands seem to all have pretty good reviews, but they're all reviews based on getting free or reduced price meters. What pH meters...

Does anyone have a league going? Is there a thread in general chit chat for leagues this year? Anyone interested in forming a homebrewtalk league?

As a life-long Royals fan, I could almost cry thinking about the Royals winning the World Series! This has been one of the funnest post seasons to watch that I've ever seen! 7:07 pm just can't get here fast enough!

I finally had a brew day from hell yesterday. After 4 years of brewing, I had never really had any major problems brewing and everything seemed to go off without a hitch. Yesterday, that all changed! I believe that all my good luck in years past had finally caught up to me and gave me...

One of very few traditions I have is to have a hot toddy when brewing up a batch of beer. I love it because it's always something new with each grain bill and I usually try to change up the bourbon/whiskey that I use. Yesterday, I was brewing up a 10 gallon batch of a Tart of Darkness clone...

Hey guys. I'm slowly rebuilding my all grain brewery and am utilizing the orange rubbermaid round style cooler for my mash tun. I'd really like to be able to put a permanent thermometer on it to keep an eye on my mash temperatures, but can't figure out what style of thermometer I should use...

I'm currently in the market for a new burner for my setup and have had my eyes on a banjo burner for quite awhile now. I only have one concern with it though... It would seem to me that the somewhat rounded bottom on my keggle would not sit very well on the top of the burner stand. I've been...

Here's my dilemma... Last night, i finally got around to bottling my cider and after racking it into my bottling bucket, I realized that my bottle brush is missing. Just recently, I moved into my new house and cant find my bottle brush anywhere! I have a dirty 2.5 gallon carboy that I can't...

About 6 months ago, I decided to make some JAOM using bread yeast, but I did up a 2.5 gallon batch with 10 lbs of honey and ended up with an O.G. of 1.122. I was a little apprehensive to use bread yeast like the recipe suggests as everything I had been reading about the yeast said that it...

Ive been pondering the idea of building a devoted beer cellar and stumbled across this thread online. Lots of good information in it regarding collaring beer. http://scenicbrews.com/summer10/cellaringbeer.html Now I'm off to find plans for building a beer cellar!!

Quick question.... I use a lot of brewers yeast from the health food store for one if my other hobbies so I usually have quite a bit of it laying around at any one time. My question is would brewers yeast be a decent enough yeast nutrient in a pinch? From my understanding, it is dead dried...

Tonight, I'm gonna make up a 5 gallon batch of soda using the soda stream syrups and have a quick question regarding proportions. How much water per container of syrup do you guys use? I was reading the directions on how much water to use, but I kept confusing myself on quantities. Any magical...

So here's my problem guys. I had my wedding this past weekend and I served 10 gallons of my homebrew at it. It's now tuesday and I am attempting to get everything cleaned up, but it turns out that after my kegs had been emptied, the bartender completely dismantled my regulator attempting to turn...

I'm brewing a batch of deception (reception) stout right now and the mash smells incredible! Whoever makes me a candle that smells like my mash will probably find me dry humping your leg. I LOVE THAT SMELL!!!

Just a quick question guys. I have a 2 day old batch of mead in primary right now and everything seems to be going great except for one thing. I have trouble degassing the mead due to a very small opening at the top. I don't really have anything that effectively works for degassing and I came up...

I've been doing a lot of reading on mead recipes and really want to make sure I've got everything worked out before I do anything. I believe I've got a good ingredient list made up, but I've got a question about something that confuses me. Some recipes call for boiling the water and honey and...

7 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 57.1 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 2 8.2 % 12.0 oz Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 4 6.1 % 12.0 oz Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 5 6.1 % 12.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 3 6.1 % 8.0 oz Barley, Flaked...

Hey everyone. I've got a quick question about my beersmith. I've got the Premium edition of Beersmith that doesn't seem to be working right. When I click on one of my recipes, it will show me all of my information, but it won't bring up the ingredients that I have put into the recipe. I can...