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HAZARD Homebrewing's 3rd Annual HAZtoberFest BJCP Competition is open for registering your beers today! We have a cap of 200 entries, so register today before it is all filled up! http://brewcompetition.hazardhomebrewing.org/ We are judging based on 2008 BJCP guidelines and all 23...

I use a 10 gallon round cooler for my mash tun. I always preheated it with about a gallon of boiling or near boiling water. I have been using it like this for a little over 4 years. WIth my boiling water pre-heating method, I have warped the cooler slightly and the (screw on) lid is not...

I have been using my electric brew setup for over a year now. Recently I opened up the control panel box to show a friend and we saw some melted wire on the Black Wire between the Contactor and the Outlet for the Element. I snipped the wire below the melt, stripped it back, added a new...

I just had a big revelation that I may be doing something bad, bad, bad. To speed up my chilling, I recirculate my wort through a pump back into the top of the kettle. The entire time, the wort is splashing. I usually start the pump with about 10 minutes left in the boil, to sanitize the...

So here is my process for calculating my OG when brewing. I use a refractometer and brew 10 gallon AG with batch sparge and do 2 sparges based on my mash tun being a little small. These are rough estimates of numbers, I do not have my notes from Friday's brew. First runnings: 3.5 gallons...

HAZARD Homebrewing's 2nd annual HAZtoberFest BJCP Competition is open for registering your beers today! We have a cap of 200 entries, so register today before it is all filled up! http://brewcompetition.hazardhomebrewing.org/ All 23 styles of beer are accepted (no meads or ciders...

I recently bought a 15 gallon whiskey barrel (http://corsair-distillery.mybigcommerce.com/barrels/) and am going to fill it really soon with a RIS. I just need to find the right spot to store the barrel. Obviously it wont be mobile once filled so I want to get the right spot. The best place...

This may be a stupid question, but I couldn't find the answer. There is a cheap 3-way CO2 distributor on Amazon right now and I am curious if I could buy 2 and run them in parallel and what would be the best way to do it. The reason to do this is, buying 2 of these is significantly cheaper...

I was reading the recipe thread on TheElectricBrewery about their Pliny the Younger clone (here). They used HopShots to get the IBUs without using too many hops, but ran into a sticky mess and a terrible clean up because of them. MoreBeer has a product called IsoHop that seems to be...

I recently bought a few used corny kegs and they had previously held soda. Of course it had that strong scent so I disassembled them entirely and gave them a nice long oxy-clean soak. Most of the scent is gone with the soak and new o-rings but the smell remains in the pressure relief valves...

My electric build was based off of this drawing of PJ's: I have plans to upgrade it to a 2 PID, 2 element, 2 pump system and there is more than enough room in my enclosure box for the extra equipment. I plan on going to a HERMS but do not have a HLT and have a cooler to mash in. My SSR...

A local brewery sold wort to homebrewers and I bought 10 gallons. 5 went the Belgian route and the other 5 is planned to be dry hopped. Here is the breakdown of the wort: 95% English Pale 5% English Crystal 30L 35 IBUs of Bravo at 60 Minutes 1.055 Fermented out with Nottingham at 65* NOW...

Next week a local brewery is selling 310 gallons of un fermented wort to our homebrew club. Each person is buying as much as they want. The idea is that each person would do something different to it and see the differences. We will be having a competition with the finished beers in January...

I bought a used CO2 tank from some friends. It has a sticker on it that clearly labels it as "CO2" and had a broken Tap Rite regulator on it. It was also full. I thought my friends had said that they had it filled. Last night I hooked it up and poured some beer. Today I texted my friend and...

HAZARD Homebrewing's HAZtoberFest BJCP Competition is open for registering your beers today! We have a cap of 200 entries, so register today before it is all filled up! http://brewcompetition.hazardhomebrewing.org/ All 23 styles of beer are accepted (no meads or ciders, sorry!) and...

My homebrew club, HAZARD Homebrewing, is putting on our first annual BJCP/AHA sanctioned competition. Registration started today and I want to invite anyone and everyone to enter their beers! Register Here: http://brewcompetition.hazardhomebrewing.org/ Facebook Page for the event...

The past two years I have taught a class on homebrewing through a local organization. As part of the class, attendees are able to have free samples of my beer. In doing the class through this organization, I did not worry about liability at all. This year I have decided to teach the class...

I keep a rubbermade 20 gallon tote for my mixed up star san. Usually I will maek 15 gallons of it so that I can easily submerge equipment. On Friday morning, I decided to bottle up some beer and had my bottling bucket and siphon in the sanitizer. My cat assumed the lid to the tote was on...

Hey Everyone, I have been talking with a friend, who is an electrician, and we are going to work together to get my brew setup electric. I decided I want a single 5500W element controlled by a PID on a control panel. I am using P-J's diagram, shown here: As I am creating my shopping list...

I am looking to install a heating element into my keggle, which I will use as an HLT and BK. I want to continue to mash in my cooler tun. With the very limited amount of electrical equipment that I need to accomplish this, I don't want to jump into a whole control panel build and everything...