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I am an all grain brewer with a few years experience under my belt. I absolutely love Sam Adams Boston Lager, and I want to brew it at home. The problem is at this time, there is no real practical way for me to brew a lager. Now before I get a bunch of messages from people telling me how...

Hello all. When I brew, I brew 10 gallons at a time, and I get 5 gallons and my dad gets five gallons. We are both now kegging, and I am using a converted chest freezer for cold conditioning/carbonating. The problem is, even when the keg is pouring crystal clear, as soon as I move the keg...

Hey all, brewing tomorrow, shooting for a stone smoked porter clone. Here is the recipe that I found so far, but it seems too big for a Stone clone, since Stone smoked porter is only 5.something % ABV, and this recipe is huge. My main question is the recipe calls for smoked peated malt...

Hey everyone. I am converting a Sanyo 4912 into a kegerator. Currently am using a freezer that I converted which works great, but it would be better served for cold crashing and conditioning. I already have Perlick faucets, so I am looking for a 2 tap beer tower that has no faucets attached...

Hello all, I am planning on brewing 10 gallons of a Levitation clone as per Jamil's recipe and I did listen to the show about it, but there was something that I did not understand. They said they only mashed for twenty minutes. I was going to go ahead and mash for one hour at 157, but I am not...

Alright, well, I have been brewing for one year now, and I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, my first “massive failure”. I am not sure how my mistake will impact my brew, but here it goes. Upon my last visit to my local brew store, I was telling the guy behind the counter about...

Well everyone, I have just successfully brewed my second all grain batch on my home made brew stand, and I believe that all was a huge success. My first all grain batch was a little shaky, as I was learning my brew stand, having no idea how well it would perform, and I was also doing my first...

Hi all....brewed my first all grain brew last night. Volume was a little low, and the gravity should have been 1.064, but I ended up with 1.060, so I did not want to top off with water and bring down the gravity. My main area of concern are two things: My hot break was almost nothing...

Hello all....This may be a dumb question, but here it goes. I just got done brewing an irish stout, using dry yeast, I believe it was nottingham ale yeast, if I remember right, and it was 11g worth of yeast. I made a starter, 1/2 cup DME with 1 quart of water. It fermented almost 2 days...

Hello all....I am experimenting with my brew stand right now, and I am having second thoughts on my decision to run temp. controlled gas valves. I am still only an extract brewer, and have never all grain brewed before, so I am at a dis-advantage here. I had always intended on going to...

Hi all....I am building a brewstand using two 23-tip jet burners with several of the jets plugged off and Honeywell gas valves. I am tweaking my natural gas pressure for an optimal burn, and am curious about how long it takes other people to bring 5 gallons of water to a boil. I am using the...