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I'm fairly new to kegging. I bought a kegerator that came with four used cornies and I'm having trouble with one of the kegs. I've replaced all the o-rings, and I just filled it for the first time. I have Perlick 5 series taps which I cleaned and put in new beer lines after taking possession of...

The attached pic is my first beer dry hopped in the keg. It was an IPA with blackberries and a bit of lactose. Used some flaked oats, but after the first few glasses, it cleared up to a nice purty, but clear purple-red. But now, with probably less than a half gallon left, I'm getting this. Did...

So I did something stupid. I started to fill my new stainless steel fermenter with water for a leak test from my garden hose. Big mistake! I caught it immediately after about 4 gallons and drained it, then filled it with 6 gallons of hot water from the kitchen sink. Will this rinse and maybe...

Time to buy my first pump. It won't be my last, so I don't need the best or the most powerful. Upgraded from 10 gal kettle to a keggle so I'll be doing both 5-6 and 10-12 gal batches. Gonna use it to move mash and sparge water from kettle to mash tun, Possible future mash re-circulation, wort...

Finally took the kegging plunge after years of home brewing. My first beer has been in the keg almost three weeks. Originally I was keeping pressure on it for a few hours every day, but the carbonation was great last weekend, so I'm not keeping the gas on all the time. Is that a mistake? Tuesday...

Hey Pittsburgh area home brewers. Looking for some recipe help. My son has been living in the area for the past two years, and has become hooked on the NEIPAs from Grist House, especially Floodline. I did get the chance myself to visit him once, and I agree, this is one tasty brew. So here's my...

I'm new to kegging, and I think I understand how all the connections and such work, but this one has me stumped. How can a brand new bottle leak it's entire contents in 24 hours with the main valve turned off? The back story: I have a brand new cannonball draft system (1.75 gal keg) with...

Brewed my first beer on Saturday with new equipment, including the Blichman tower of power PID controller. I had set the PID for 162 to heat my strike water. Completed Dough in, let it rest 10 minutes, then kicked it back on for a recirculating mash. Wort is circulating back through the HLT and...

First, I really searched for this. Having trouble believing I'm the first to ask this question, but I didn't see it anywhere. New to kegging. I bought a Cannonball 1.75 gal keg with hoses from Northern Brewer. I ran about 4 gallons of sanitized hot water through the picnic tap hose. But my...

My partner and I are in the startup stage of putting together a Nano brewery. We're going to start with a one barrel brew house and several half to one barrel fermenters. We started with a half barrel fermenter from Ss with neoprene cover and internal coils. But we really want fully jacketed...

I have the opportunity to acquire a brewing rig that can brew up to a full barrel of beer. The HLT, MLT, and boil kettle vessels are 45-50 gallons each. But I still want to brew some small batches for now, in the 8-12 gallon range. Eventually working up to 15-30 gallon batches once I'm more...

Thinking about buying a Minibrew 15 gallon conical. There seems to be another site other than Minibrew selling this at over $200 less. Here's the minibrew site listing it for $478: http://minibrew.com/product/15-gallon-conical-fermenter-kit-f15bt/ And here is another site selling what looks...

First off, yes I know, airlock activity is not the be all, end all sign of fermentation. But this one is pretty odd, and had some unusual occurrences, so looking for some thoughts. Beer is a session IPA. OG of 1.048. I wanted it to finish high for a little more body so I was planning to mash at...

I live in Houston, and a close friend is coming to visit in a few weeks. He lives in Champaign. What excellent beers should I ask him to look for to bring down for us to drink that are readily available near him? He's not a huge beer nerd like me, so I'll need to be specific. My favorite styles...

Totally bored at work. Decided to peruse RateBeer and stumbled onto the worst beer in the world - top 50 list. Who knew? So most of the highest (lowest) beers on the list were your expected American light lagers just getting bashed by craft beer drinkers. Natty Light was number one, but clearly...

Don't get me wrong, I love drinking beer. But I'm not anywhere close to a big drinker. Most nights I'll have one with dinner. Even on weekends rarely more than two a day. Unfortunately my body just can't handle it any more. But brewing - that's a completely different story. I think about it all...

I'm brewing a beer with a friend next weekend. I had planned on a hoppy brew, as I'm running low, but he didn't like my original suggestion, and we ended up settling on a dunkel. So I got to thinking, what about a hoppy dunkel? Figured I would come here and get some opinions. I know that 3...

After reading this thread and not getting any feedback, I decided to start a new one. Looking for input from brewers who have used Simpson's GNO in lower gravity beers. NOT looking for arguments as to whether Session IPAs are a thing or not. Take those somewhere else please. As Yooper said in...

I recently bought an immersion chiller and saw how another member here used it to automate temperature control in a swamp cooler setup. So I purchased an Inkbird temp control unit and assembled a similar configuration. If you want to see pics and more details, see this thread. To summarize, I...

First off, I don't keg. I only bottle, by choice. No plans to change that anytime real soon. But what's the deal with those chincy plastic spigots and bottling wands??? In almost every other area of homebrewing there are high quality options for those willing to spend a little more money. Why...