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I have made two 1500w electric element wands and have been brewing for years with one. I have 4 batches on the new one i made. I was brewing last Friday and the new one started bubbling very hard all the sudden and then stopped a few seconds later. i unplugged it and pulled it out. It was...

I brewed this recipie: 7 lbs row 2 1 lb crystal 40 2.5 lbs Honey 1 oz fugal yest is White Labs California Super Yeast 090 I think... Starting Gravity 1.059 final a week later 1.025 I havent brewed in a couple of years and I always remember getting down to 1.01. Is this normal. I only used...

I remember seeing someone that had used hydroponics to grow hops in their house with a fogger. I can not for the life of me find it (I have used the search). Can anyone point me in the right direction. I do think it was on this forum.

I have already put a heater element into a 10 gal picnic cooler. With a Rancho thermostat and a outlet timer. I have set the termostat to 175 deg. and set the timer so that when I get home from work my water is ready for the mash. I want to basically setup a MLT system that can do the mash...

I bought 11 lbs worth of cracked grain from my LHBS 5 months ago. I read it only lasts 3 weeks... Is this correct? Its onluy a $14 loss. I would rather use fresh grain and not waste my time with bad grain. What do you think?

hey guys, I have a quick question. When you carbonate kegs with sugar there is going to be sludge at the bottom right? Will it clog the out pipe? How do Local beer distributors keg, force or sugar?

Anyone know where the projects are for the portable draft boxes? There were two and I cant find them.

Hey guys, I usually have a lot of sediment after racking to my keg, as I do not rack to secondary to clear. Has anyone ever just attached a inline filter to a keg with good results? As I have a full keg of beer for tonight with a bunch of friends who are picky about yeasties in their beer, I...

hey guys, Whats the best Temp. controller to get for a 10 gal Picnic cooler MLT? Or maybe my question should be: What's the difference between say the Ranco's and the Amber Interments ones? I want to incorporate it into my bio-diesel production as well, as a side note.

Hey guys, I just got a paintball tank to regulator adapter from my LHBS. I picked up a 20oz paintball tank at walmart and when I took off the cap I realized that walmart refills used ones and resells them. The top was slightly discolored in spots (probably from being a year or so old [i used...

Hey guys, I saw this like a month ago. A homemade mash tun that had a heating element in it with a thermostat hooked up to it with a 10 gal cooler to automatically control the mash temp. Does anyone know where to find this project. I really want to make one tomorrow.

I posted this in general, however I think that might have been the wrong place. I think in this subject or recipes is more appropiate. Hey guys, I was listening to the brewing network Jamil show Blond Ale episode. I followed Jamil's recipe with 8.3 lbs of DME Pilsner light, 0.5 lbs of...

Hey guys, I was listening to the brewing network Jamil show Blond Ale episode. I followed Jamil's recipe with 8.3 lbs of DME Pilsner light, 0.5 lbs of crystle 10 and 1oz of willamette hops. I only used 7.25lbs of DME Pilsner Light by DL, because in promash I calculated that 8.3 was too high...

Hey guys, The last 4 batches of beer have had the same aftertaste. I thought leaving it alone would mellow it out. This, however, is not the case. I don't know how to describe it. Its almost a bad kind of starchy to me, but you can smell it from a room away. My wife says to me when i...

Hey guys, I am going to be making a Blue Moon Clone soon. The recipe calls for 2.5 lbs of orange blossom honey. I can not find this anywhere. I have 5 lbs of alfalfa honey. If I use the alfalfa what differences can I expect, if any?

Hey guys I went to my local orchard again to pick up four 1 gal bottles of apple cider to make hard cider with. I left it out on my counter to get to room temp and did not get around to cleaning the fermenter for 3 days. So they sat on the counter for 3 days. Well I cleaned out my fermenter...

Hey guys, I made a raspberry cream ale on 10-03 of last month. I put it in the secondary on 10-23, and primed two 16oz bottles of it on the same day. Three days ago I put one in the fridge and had it last night. It had a very bad aftertaste. Here is my recipe: 11lbs American Pale Malt...

Hey guys, I made a raspberry cream ale on 10-03 of last month. I put it in the secondary on 10-23, and primed two 16oz bottles of it on the same day. Three days ago I put one in the fridge and had it last night. It had a very bad aftertaste. Here is my recipe: 11lbs American Pale Malt...

Hey guys so if you read my last post about the false bottom tube failing, then you know I'm not on any kind of a roll when I tell you that two of the three thermometers I had were failing during trying to keep the temp at 152. It was soo bad that it told me it was at 131 at times and so I added...