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I've been using a CFC for a year now, and it's been working ok, but I wanted a way to chill my wort to below 120F as quickly as possible. A CFC was chilling 10 gallons of wort to pitching temps in about 20 minutes, but the wort sat in the kettle at boiling temps that whole time creating DMS and...

I've been using my 25' CFC for a few months now, and it's doing what I need it to do for now. Right now it's gravity fed, and with my water temperature being about 48F, I chill the wort down to about 68F. I'm wondering if I should be getting colder wort in the end. I have the water faucet...

Hi all, I misjudged by pipeline. I primed 3 kegs with dextrose on Sunday, and since then I kicked 2 kegs! I want to charge at least one of them before the weekend using CO2, but I want to make sure the 1/3 cup of priming sugar I put in each keg is fermented first. The temperature of the beer...

I'm getting ready to brew an IIPA that calls for a full pound of pellet hops. I'm using a 5 gallons paint strainer bag on my hop spider, and I'm wondering if I'm going to have any issues in my keggle. Is this too much hop matter?

I spent hours reading about formulas to calculate appropriate beer line length before I bought my draft system so that I wouldn't have to deal with the hassle of troubleshooting issues with my pour. Over and over again, I read advice here to use 10' lines, and of course I ignored it. Well, I...

In preparation for setting up my keezer, I decided to try to figure out how to balance the system before I even got it I've done a lot of reading, and it seems to me that you have to vary the beer line inner diameter and/or length from style to style in order to get a good pour. That...

My LHBS carries "Cara-Pils Crystal malt 10ºL". Would this be the same as the Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L in BeerSmith, or Carafoam?

Hi all. Just wondering if I should be able to buy flaked barley at the bulk food store, or if I should stick to ordering it from my LHBS. I'm kind of tired of paying $4/lb for it!

Hi all, I'm looking for suggestions for an IPA recipe. These are the ingredients I have on hand: Grain: 2 row Crystal 30L Crystal 60L Chocolate malt Flaked barley roast barley Hops: Cascade Amarillo Fuggles Centennial Northern Brewer Willamette Any ideas are appreciated!

Hi all, I just bought my first smack pack of Wyeast 1056 at my LBHS the other day. I'm going to use it in one of those kits with a 23L bag of pre-hopped wort. I have 2 questions. 1. Do I need to make a starter, or can I just follow the directions on the back of the package of Wyeast...

Hi all, My LHBS is more of a wine store than anything. They just sell pre-hopped kits like Coopers. Since sodium metabisulphite is commonly added to wine, it's the sanitizer that the shop carries...the only sanitizer. I've been using it to sanitize my equipment and bottles through...

So, I've been brewing the simple stuff. Pre-hopped canned kits, 7.5 litre bags, 15 litre bags, etc... Well, this grossed me out. I've been reading that it's a good idea to leave the wort in the primary for 3-4 weeks, and then bottle it. I left the wort for 4 weeks in a primary bucket with a...

I recently opened up a couple bottles of my latest beer, and I notice that they're quite under-carbonated. Not flat, but definitely under-carbonated. The beer (from a pre-hopped kit) has been in the bottle for 3 weeks, and that's normally enough time. Can I fix this batch by opening all...

Hi all, I decided to use a bit of Knox gelatin as a fining agent in a batch of my beer. The brew had been in secondary for about 10 days when I diluted a packet of gelatin in warm water and gently stirred it in. I did this to resolve this problem...

This is my fifth batch of brew. It's one of those 15L bags of wort that you don't boil, and just add 8L of water to. It's been in the secondary for 10 days now, and these little floaties just keep rising and falling. They've been there for at least 4 days. Are they just clumps of yeast...

I've brewed about 7 or 8 batches now. All were pre-hopped kits. One was a 7.5L bag of wort that I had to top up to 23L. It came with a small packet of bentonite which was to serve as a fining agent. That batch was the clearest I made. It was as clear a commercial beer. My question...

I've read that you should put your beer in the fridge for 24 hours before drinking to let it clear. This is fine except that I'm not always sure ahead of time how much beer I need. Is it OK to put it all in the fridge for 24 hours to clear and then take it out and store it at room...

My first batch from a pre-hopped kit has been in bottles for almost 3 weeks now and there is very little carbonation still. I'm using 16oz bottles, and I'm thinking I may have left too much headspace (about 1 1/2 - 2 inches). Will this increase the carb time? Do I just need to refrigerate...

Today, I was about to bottle my second batch of brew. I have 40 or so Grolsch bottles cleaned and ready for sanitizing. I look over and see an empty dishwasher, and decide to be lazy and just use the sanitize feature. Well, I'm here to tell you that this is not a good idea. When it was all...

Hi all, I have a 7g packet of Coopers yeast that comes in a gold pack. It didn't come in a kit though, so I'm not sure what kind of yeast it is. On the back, by the barcode, is the number 16508. Any ideas?