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I'm completely new to electric brewing, and am putting together a parts list for an electric brewing setup (Sorry if my questions here are terribly ignorant.) I am interested in this P-J diagram: http://www.pjmuth.org/beerstuff/images/Auberin-wiring1-a4-4500w-30a.jpg What kind of fuse...

Today, I pitched a fruit fly into my beer. I saw it in my starter. The shape of the vessel and the location of the (dead) fruit fly made it impossible to remove, so I pitched the little bastard. Haters gonna hate, but I'm hoping some of you out there have had a fly in your wort/beer without...

Perhaps this is a goofy question or answered elsewhere, but is there any reason why one couldn't install a HERMS coil in a vessel smaller than a keggle/boil kettle? Wouldn't it be easier for the heating element to maintain the desired temp if the HERMS coil was installed in a one gallon pot...

I was tooling around on the inimitable braukaiser.com and I struck upon this: http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php/Kompensatorzapfhahn This looks like a great thing to have for us keg-at-home types who often have setups that request a shorter serving tube length. Basically, the needle...

After reading several descriptions of steam mashing rigs here on HBT, from Yuri's electric keg design to the more basic pressure cooker setups, I've come away with the notion that steam mashing may be the most efficient and lowest cost method of heating a mash. Especially if using a simple...

I'm going to St. Louis! What's there to see beer-wise? Any recommendations about breweries, beer bars, or LHBSs? WOOHOO!

My fiancee and I recently got an awesome juicer. This one's a Breville. Great value if you're into making juice. Anyway, as soon as we tried it out I immediately started to wonder about the applications in making vegetable and fruit beers. Anyone out there used a juicer to add fruit to their...

So! Thanks to HBT, I've finally built myself a fermentation chamber. It's 64" wide, 32" deep, and forgot how tall, but as you can see from the pics, it's tall enough to accommodate corny kegs. Not shown in these pics is a 5,000 btu window AC unit I'm using to cool it, and the A419 controller...

I was brewing last night with my SWMBO and we were happily on our way to cooling our 10 gallon batch of sweet delicious tripel through our counterflow chiller. After joyfully watching about one quart of cooled wort flow through the line and into a better bottle, everything stopped. We screwed...

Timmy's Tripel A ProMash Recipe Report BJCP Style and Style Guidelines ------------------------------- 18-C Belgian Strong Ale, Belgian Tripel Min OG: 1.075 Max OG: 1.085 Min IBU: 25 Max IBU: 38 Min Clr: 45 Max Clr: 6 Color in SRM, Lovibond Recipe...

I suggested a friend of mine try a bottle of Tripel Karmeliet. He did. He then told me he thought it was "super hoppy" and dumped it because he doesn't like hops. Never mind that he doesn't like hoppy beers. Tripel Karmeliet ain't that hoppy, right?! Wtf?! WHO DOESN'T LIKE TRIPEL KARMELIET?!

This goes out to anyone who's going to try stove-top pasteurizing: READ THE FINE PRINT! If there's any amount of doubt as to whether your batch of cider is over carbonated and thus overly pressurized in the bottle, DON'T TRY TO PASTEURIZE IT! Pappers_ is very clear about this in his...

I've got a 5 gallon batch of some graff I made with Safale-05 that has fermented for several weeks. I've back sweetened now with about 20 oz. of maple syrup, which was probably more than ideal for taste, but putting flavor aside, does anyone have a general sense of how long cider takes to...

What it is, HBT! I'm just a dude in Chicago with a Penrose kettle and a 10 gallon cooler making the occasional attempt at a decent beer. Technically, I live outside of the city in beautiful Oak Park, IL. I'm definitely looking for some folks to brew with and learn from in the area, as...

SO, On October 31, 2010 my SWMBO and I made a cider from 5 gallons of pasteurized, preservative-free Indian Summer Apple Cider. We made a 1/2 gallon or so starter with some of the same juice 2 days before brewing day with some dry montrachet champagne yeast. We then used the remaining juice...

why didn't anyone tell me about primator dark lager?! this beer is correct.

I am new to brewing and definitely new to kegging, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense to me to just go for the kegging system. Here's my question: In your guys' experience, does it make sense to shell out the extra cash for a dual line regulator, or is a simple...

I am gearing up to try this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f81/mapfelwein-22221/ I noticed that it does not include pectin enzyme or a yeast nutrient. Would it work better if I added those items? Thanks!

So, I went ahead and put myself together a 10 gallon mash tun with one of those orange cylindrical coolers you can get at Home Depot. I followed a tutorial on HBT about constructing a spigot for it to replace the dinky plastic one it comes with, and that all seems nice and tight. Now what? Do...

I'm new to all grain brewing and I bought myself a 5 gallon rubbermaid cylindrical cooler to use as a mash tun. I intend to fly sparge with a sparge arm. Is this big enough for my purposes considering most of the recipes I look at are for 5 gallons, and the max size of my fermentors is 6...