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With a few ale batches under my belt, I decided to try a lager. Since moving from Philly to California, I miss my Yuengling lager. I found a clone at Annapolis homebrew so I decided that would be a good first lager to try. I will be using my kegerator as my fermentation chamber (I purchased a...

I made a yeast starter for the first time according to the instructions on this post: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/how-make-yeast-starter-pictorial-76101/. After 24 hours, I see no visible signs of activity and it smells pretty bad; not like beer at all. It smells sort of like rotten cider...

I have left a solution of oxiclean in my plastic Better Bottle fermentor for about 3 weeks now. Is it OK to just rinse and sanitize before using, or did the prolonged contact with oxiclean ruin it?

I’m planning on building an immersion chiller and had an idea to incorporate my kegerator into the design. I live in a part of Southern California which sees temps over 100 during the summer. With the hottest months coming up, I’m not sure if my tap water will be cold enough to cool the wort...

I have a single tap kegerator with one corny keg full of homebrew already hooked up. I am thinking of ordering a second corny and making another batch of brew. The problem is that the second batch will be ready well before I finish off the keg that's currently in the kegerator. Can I just untap...

I haven't been able to find this elsewhere on the forums. After sanitizing equipment in a no-rinse sanitizer, where are you supposed to let the equipment air dry? So far, I have been placing everything on a clean towel, but I'm concerned that the towel might still be contaminating the equipment...

I am brewing a Blonde Belgian Ale I found at 7 Bridges Coop (http://www.breworganic.com/organicRichardsFarmhouseBlondeBelgianAleeasybrew.aspx). The directions say that fermentation should last 5-7 days, at which point you should rack to secondary or go ahead and bottle/keg. I am planning on...

My corny keg has black rubber on the top and bottom. It leaves black marks everywhere it touches, including my hands and the floor. It doesn't affect the beer at all but it gets really annoying after a while working with black rubber all over your hands and marks all over my tile floor. Has...

I am brewing my first batch of beer: Seven Bridges Red Ale. I pitched the yeast about 24 hours ago and attached a blow off tube to the top of my glass carboy. I placed the other end of the tube into an empty bucket which i thought was used to catch the excess foam (the wort was filled close to...