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Just thought i'd throw this up here real quick to see if anyone had any hints or tricks I could try while I try and figure out how to return this thing. I ordered a KAB4 off of Amazon, with the full intentions of using the burner out of it when I complete my brew stand. It arrived today, so...

I do not have a pump, but have always attempted a spin driven whirlpool. I have NEVER come even CLOSE to having a nice pyramid of trub. Every time i've drained i've ended up with a very liquidy layer of crap on the bottom that just shoots up the cane or out the valve. I've whirled fast...

Going to Bend this weekend to partake in the local beer scene...where are the hidden gems? What are the places I MUST see? What places are over rated? Good food spots, breakfast lunch and dinner? Must do breweries? Off the map spots? I want to make the most of my day and a half...and do...

This summer I would really like to enter some beer into local competitions so that I may get some feedback. Last summer I declined to enter any beer because I was unsure if I would be breaking any rules or etiquette. All of my beer was extract and bought in the form of a kit from one of the...

Some of you may have read my post from last weekend about how I botched my first AG batch in almost every way possible (and thoroughly offended Mr. McDole's prized recipe). I had the ingredients around for my second planned batch of AG beer, Nathan Smith's 'The Dankness' IPA, and decided to...

Short Version: Today I set out to brew my first AG batch of beer...and I did just that. I successfully mashed milled grain into sweet wort, and I successfully sparged said mash into more sweet wort. I collected all of this wort and managed to boil it with plenty of wonderfully smelling hops...

I just received my fittings from bargainfittings.com (super fast, nice and clean product) and immediately began putting the finishing touches on my Rubbermaid mash tun. The pre drilled hole for the factory spigot appears to be a bit bigger than the nipple provided, and when I put the whole...

I am about to venture into my first cider experience and I was able to get a hold of a very nice 4 apple blend of cider made specifically to turn into hard cider. This cider was pressed as part of a special promotional event at an apple orchard and giving to a few people who signed up for a...

It might be easier to describe where it isn't. Ceiling, wall, doors, window, bed, and of course the floor! LOL I got my girlfriend to help me brew a Janet's Brown yesterday. This was my second brew (third if you count the 'assisting' I did on an all grain RIS), and the first time I've made...

Happy homebrew day. After only my first extract kit, I was given the chance to co-brew (watch and do what I was told) an all grain Russian Imperial Stout. 40+lb grain bill and a 1.090 target...we filled a keggle to the brim and we were able to hit 1.088. After a couple of weeks in primary...

Friday I received the rest of my brew equipment and today I put it all to use. We had a rare sunny day today, so I used it to mow the lawn and then brew my first batch of beer. I did an American Hef extract kit from MoreBeer.com. The only thing i'm disapointed with is while I was trying to...

So I came home to two boxes on my porch full of the rest of the things I 'needed' to start brewing. I got a couple of extract kits and a vile of yeast, along with a bunch of extra little tools (racking cane, tubing, beer theif, etc). I also purchased an 8 gallon kettle...a little disappointed...

Last year I was given a couple of rhizomes from a Willamette crown (from what I was told, it was a 150 year old crown from a hop farm in OR...brought to WA about a generation ago) and they did extremely well. I wanted to expand my library of hop variety so I recently ordered a Cascade, Mt...

I have not even brewed a batch of beer yet, but I have been researching the brewing process (needless to say, I'm a lurker) and have come up with a question or two about mashing. It appears that the different types of mashing can result in different styles of wort, with more or less...