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I also never liked IPA's or dreamed of making one, until I tried Stouds's double IPA. It was my awakening! Well, sort of. I went crazy sampling IPA's, and hated most of them. But, Stoudt and consequently Brooklyn Brewery's IPA have shown me the rarity of this gem. I have an IPA brewing right...

Hello Everybody! I just got home from a restaurant supply store, and they had an item called Rapi-Kool (http://www.zesco.com/products.cfm?subCatID=617&PGroupID=ZP99158002) that I had never heard of before. It is a heat safe plastic paddle, that gets filled with water and frozen. It was only...

So the deed is done. I remembered that I had a few food grade, 5 gal buckets lying around from my job. I took one of them and fit it with a spigot, and with the other I drilled about 100 small holes in the bottom. I then attached some insulation to the outside of the spigot bucket so it could...

Ah thank you all so much! For those of you that have tried both fly and batch sparging, does fly sparging produce a noticeable difference in efficiency and ultimately taste? Thanks

Ah thank you all so much! For those of you that have tried both fly and batch sparging, does fly sparging produce a noticeable difference in efficiency and ultimately taste? Thanks

Hello, Due to the crazy high cost of DME and LME, I think that it is time to move onto all-grain brewing! Not to mention, it just seems so much more legit. I have John Palmers book on the designs of MLT using picnic coolers, of which I have a very crude understanding. However, I still...

Hello. I am a fairly new brewer, this will be my first time using a food grade bucket and hops. My question is regarding the quality of the food grade bucket. I got them for free from my place of employment which is a Japanese restaurant. The buckets smell of soy sauce, and it seems impossible...