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Hey, I'm visiting Baltimore. I'm looking to visit a brewery or 2. Are any breweries kid friendly? In my town (Asheville, NC) most all the breweries are cool for little kids. Wondering if Baltimore has a similar child in the brewery acceptance policy. Specifically looking at Union and...

I'm currently mashing in a 15 gallon morebeer pot with a false bottom and it's a bit small. 20 gallons is really what I need. I recirculate during the mash and direct fire to maintain temps. my needs... 20 gallons stainless false bottom 1/2" drain valve thermometer some sort of sight...

I've built a Brutus style brew rig. Low pressure propane, honeywell standing pilot valves, PID controls, direct fired recirculated mash, etc... I did my first brew with the new rig on Sunday and everything was going great until I finished the sparge and tried to boil. The low pressure...

I have a KAB6 burner like this I'm trying to automate this burner with a PID controller and a Honeywell furnace valve. I know I need to drill out the orifice at the burner to work with low pressure propane. My question is can I use the existing hose to connect the burner to the...

I'm building a brutus style rims system. I need a box to use as a control panel. What do you think about this one? The price is right.

I'm building a brutus style system. Low pressure propane. I decided to go with the Honeywell VR8200A2132 gas valves I'm thinking I will get my PID from Auber because they seam pretty popular with other brewers and I have already bought some RTD temp probes from them. What model is appropriate...

I'm working on a brutus style system. My fule choice is low pressure propane. Are needle valves a good idea for controlling the burner flames? Are ball valves just as good?

I'm using the inline chugger pumps. I understand that they need to be placed below the brew pots so that there is some head pressure from the liquid flowing into the pump. My question is how far below the pots is needed?

I'm putting together a new all grain brewing system and the mash tun will be direct fired and I will constantly recirculate the mash with a pump. It's a single tier brutus style system so I will fly sparge with a second pump. I don't have any automation but I will probably add that in the near...

I'm doing 12-13 gallon batches in a 15 gallon pot from more beer and it's just a wee bit small. I'd really like a 20 gallon blichmann but I can't afford it. So... What do we think of this pot on Amazon? It's actually 75qts but maybe that's just enough for me. I'd add a weld less valve...

So I had some friends over the other day and we were enjoying some homebrew on the back deck. We were marveling about how clear the beer was and I started to explain that I used gelatin as a fining to clear out the yeast. Then it dawned on me that my friend is a vegetarian and gelatin is made...

I currently brew with high pressure propane burners. I have a KAB6 and a SQ14. I'm considering moving to low pressure so I can have a PID controlled direct fired RIMS type set up. How much of a reduction in heat can I expect when moving from high pressure to low pressure?

I know a lot of people love this yeast and I'm considering making it my goto belgian strain. What is your experience? More specifically what flavors can I expect at various temps?

Anybody ever try to make a hefeweizen type beer with wlp500 Trappist ale yeast? How did it turn out? What does everybody think of this idea?

Hey Ya'll I'll be staying near clearwater for a week. What are the must do beer destinations in the area. Cigar City? What else?

I have some friends that often will do a stupid long boil for barley wines and strong scotch ales to build up the malty caramel flavors in the beer. I'm talking like 2-4 hour boil times. Does everybody do this? Personally, I've always stuck with a regular 60 min boil. For recipes with lotsa...

I have an clone of Arrogant Bastard and I'm brewing a batch of Janet's brown ale that I'd like to enter into a competition. What BJCP style would these fall under?

Has anybody used one of these? What kind job do they do on filtering the trub from the wort? Anybody every used them with rice hull instead on hops just as a filter? What's your experience? TIA

I've recently changed my brewing set up. New larger pot and mash ton so I can do 10 gallon batches. As a result I need to get a handle on my new boil off rate for the big pot. Would it be accurate to do a test boil with water? Like fill the pot with 14 gallons of water and then boil that...

Are the byproducts of brewing detrimental to my home's septic system? For example oxiclean, starsan, yeast and trub all go down the drain in large amounts at my house. Will this harm my septic system?