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How do you guys do it? If the system is sealed from keg to tap when not in use, you should just be able to rotate the next keg in and the lines will then be consumed with the next beer, right? If the lines become discolored, then what? It seems like cleaning is a waste in one of 2 ways: 1...

Long story short I had some kids and never got around to brewing a batch I'd purchased. I've got 2 batches including yeast, but I'm pretty sure the yeast is toast (dry yeast packets). The grain is uncrushed, since I mill my own. I've had it for about 18 months. Is it still good? If still...

I've been brewing for years but I can't figure out where I went wrong. This time I took apart everything and cleaned/sanitized everything. I've only recently started using Starsan, however. I was brewing a winter ale. When I cracked the lid open there was zero obvious signs it was bad...

Hey, So I have these 2 tap handles I received as a gift and when I tighten them all the way up they point about 90 degrees too far to the left. Is there some special technique I'm missing here... or should I just be slapping in washers?

I'm having this problem where I get too much volume of beer when I'm done brewing and I'm not sure where it's coming from. I do 5 gallon batches, which is approx 19 liters. Here's what I've tweaked my new settings to be in my equipment in beersmith: Efficiency:65% Boil vol: 27.28L Boil...

Hi all, I just moved and space is pretty limited, however I do have an area where I can build a good sized shed. I started to think a "brew shed" would be a good idea, however I don't know enough about mold and moisture. Obviously brewing equipment is going to be wet to some degree most...

I'm looking for advice on brewing sculptures as I'm planning on making one soon. Why do so many people go with the gravity driven system? I found pumps online for about $100 a piece, which really doesn't seem too bad. I foresee that dumping water into the top level pot to be a bit of a task...

Hey Guys, So I just got a barley crusher and I took my recipe to my LHBS and picked up my grain (uncrushed). My target on this particular batch was 1.070. I hit a very disappointing 1.048 or 1.050 (hard to tell). My mash temperature ended up being slightly higher than the target (about...

Hey guys, A while back I was reading a thread on making a device to bottle from a perlick tap. Perhaps I cannot bottle from my kind of taps, because I have this kind of tap and when I use my device to bottle, beer leaks out of the face of it (where the circular part on the front goes in when...

Here's the deal, I took some kegs camping and one of them was my pumpkin ale. The pumpkin ale was perfectly fine when I got there, but after transporting it home again it decided to be cloudy. I figured it was yeast and whatnot just all shook up in there. So it's been in the fridge for about...

I finished my kegerator out of my danby frigdge not long ago and was wondering if anyone here has found a good solution for running external CO2

I recently picked up a Danby DAR446BSL. I have read posts of people that have converted them, however where do people get the information on where they can drill holes?

If its not my water (I don't do anything special to it like adding chemicals like some brewers do) it must be something I'm doing. Last night I brewed my 6th or so all grain batch. I get my mash water to 161F, as beersmith tells me in my recipe, I then pour it into my cooler mash tun. I let it...

Within a few weeks or so I'm intending on buying a danby mini fridge (http://www.walmart.com/ip/Danby-Designer-Compact-Refrigerator/5893621) from the united states, but I am not sure where the best place is for me to buy perlick taps and anything else I may need. I live near vancouver, bc, and...

I have 2 corny kegs and a 20lb CO2 tank. I'm wondering 2 things: 1. Will a 20lb CO2 tank fit in some kind of mini fridge? 2. Has anyone made a mini fridge Kegerator that stores 2 corny kegs and a 20lb CO2 tank?

I have started to make a cooler mash tun. Based on what I was able to buy today at several random stores, I have the following: 2 o rings 1 ball valve 1 nipple 2 washers (can't remember the name, but we will call it piece X) - 1 piece for the inside of the cooler that screws on the end...

So I've been pretty lazy to getting around to this, but I have a Sanke Keg which I have cut the hole in the top of to convert it to a keggle. I purchased the hardware (thermometer with sight tube, drain tap) and was wondering: What would be the best locations for these to be put in? I'll...

Hey Guys, I just bought my first kegging/CO2 setup. I just kegged beer for the first time and my regulator sprays CO2 and hisses out of underneath the knob/handle you use to open up the CO2. This is a brand new regulator. Is my regulator bad? Is it possibly to fix easily? edit: Perhaps I...

I want to brew 10 gallon batches desperately, but I'm having trouble finding a keg I can modify to make a keggle. Anybody know of a place (online, perhaps?) I can buy a Keg for hopefully cheap-ish?

I already started brewing this last week when I noticed the recipe called for caramelized pumpkin at @60. It was far too late for me to run to the store and bake it. I decided I'll just add it to secondary. Will this really screw up my beer or will it just be less pumpkiny flavour?