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I used the chest freezer sizing sticky to select the freezer to use for my serving bar. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything as useful for mini-fridges. I'm looking for a fridge to use for the 10 gallon corny I intend to use as a fermenter. Does anyone know where to find details or a...

I got my kegging system all set up about a month ago. I'm currently using picnic taps inside my chest freezer. When I went to get a beer yesterday, I found my tank empty. Does anyone have any tips on how to find a leak that slow? There are a lot of places to look, because I swapped almost...

4% of the US hop crop was burned in a fire at a Yakima warehouse. The CNN article doesn't say what varieties were involved. Hopefully it wasn't a large percentage of a smaller production hop. We'll see what, if anything, this does to hop prices. cnn article

A friend of mine brought me a bottle of alpha king back from a trip to chicago. I loved it, and as far as I can tell it's not distributed in MA. Clearly the solution is to make my own. Web searching found an old email from the Nick Floyd. Does anyone have any other info, or a copy of the old...

I'm kicking around recipe ideas for the centennial single hop IIPA I've been planning for a while. I'm pretty set on the hop schedule, but I'm wide open on changing the grain bill. I do partial mashes in a 3 gal cooler, so I can mash up to about 7lbs of grain. Current recipe shows an OG of...

I'd appreciate some comments on my ESB recipe. I'm planning to make this with RichBrewer's Mini Mash system for extract brewers. 5lbs Maris Otter 1lb Crystal 55 2lbs Muntons light DME OG 1.052 Color 10.0 SRM IBU 36.0 Batch size: 5gal Wort Size: 3gal 0.5oz EK goldings + 0.5oz...

What makes steeping grains different from a relatively inefficient mini-mash? It seems to me that steeping and mashing both involve holding the grains at 150F or so for a period of time. But I see mentioned that certain malts can't be used for steeping due to lack of conversion. What's the...

What do people generally use for monitoring the temperature of wort while steeping and cooling? I used a digital probe thermometer, but I seem to have killed it. It now reads 70F sitting in a glass of ice water. From reading online, it seems that these don't like having their probes fully...

I've just started homebrewing, and I'm gearing up to a batch a week schedule to build up a stockpile. This coming Sunday will be the first day with multiple things to do, so I'm seeking input for what order to do them in. The to do list is: Bottle the Rubber Pail Ale (currently in glass...

How can I calculate how far to chill my partial boil wort to achieve a 75 degree pitch temp? ie: I boiled 3 gallons of wort. I'm going to top this up to 5 gallons with refrigerated water (say 35 degrees). What temp should I cool the wort to before pouring it into the fermenter?

I'm in the process of brewing my first batch, a pale ale extract kit. Things have been going swimmingly so far, until now. Fermentation had slowed greatly, so I opened my fermenter and took out a sample to check the SG. SG is down to 1.012 (final is supposed to be 1.008), so I decided to rack...