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so copper transfers heat a little better , well that all care about .. why pay more for stainless steal if it transfer heat a little less and cost more.

hey all i was just wondering wich is better stainless steal wort chiller or copper? cause im looking at grabbing a 50foot wort chiller for my new 10gallon stainless steal stock pot i just bought because its way to big to put in the sink for a ice bath.

well i got the 40quart http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FNLTCU/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 that should do the job right?

oh sorry i will be doing indoor brewing

hey all i been brewing for a little over two years and looking at buying a new stock pot. i was looking at a 32quart stock pot but was wondering is that big enoff if i want to do a 5-6gallon all grain ? also what are good brands of pots to look at i was looking at amzon but see alot of pots...

ok what temp do u roast it at and for how long?

ive been brewing for a few years and i know using nibs is not going to turn my beer into samual smiths chocolate stout by its self. This is my 2nd brew of making a chocolate stout and this time im altering the recipe to try and get it a little closer and one of the changes im going to be...

hey all im making a chocolate stout and i decided i want to try using cocoa beans this time. Now has anybody ever used cocoa bean in there brew before? if so can someone answer these questions for me 1) how many ounces woudl be good to use for a 5.5gallon batch? 2) shoudl i use it durring...

Would anybody know of any good brand and model mini fridge that i can put in a half barrel or two 5 gallon kegs that i can conver into a kegerator? i had a edge star kegerator that i spent over 500 for and ends up dieing on me wiht only being 3 years old

hey all need to find a good fridge to replace my edgestar kegerator i bought 3 years ago thta died on me... and dont want to spend a nother 500+ for something that is not going to last. so wanted to knwo if anybody know of any fridges i shoudl take a look at, so i can convet into a new...

hey was wondering if anybody would know a good clone recipe for magic hat #9 not quit pale ale. Im not set up for ag brewing so a extract recipe would be needed and I can steep.

ok I got a batch of hard cider that has been sitting in the carboy sense early November. Im going to be moving it to a secondary carboy and add honey. Now how is the best way to add the honey? should I boil some water and add the honey to the boiling water then add it to the secondary? or should...

yes the cider was preserve free, as for the 1.05 1.07 that was from different batches sorry should have been more clear on that.

to add sweetness just throw in a can of apple concentrate or two

hey all ive had my hard cider fermenting for a little over 3 weeks now and I just took a gravity reading and I got my readings between 1.05 and 1.07.. Now after three weeks I would have thought it would have been lower then that..does that sound right? or should I be thinking about doing a 2nd...

i did not taste a finshed product.. i had extra cider left over that did not go into the fermenters and i drank a glass and found it to sweet with snappyness or tartness you normaly get in cider.. but anyways i did a little messing around with a gallon of reg cider i had left over and found a...

give it time... checking it in a nother 3-4 days

hey i made some hard cider.. but the cider i got was just sweet and had no snappy/tartness u get from apples and i want to add some citric acid to cider.. the fermenters have about 6.5 gallons in each.. Now how much shoudl i throw in ?

when u made your beer did you do a full 6.5 gallon brew.. or did u boil a 2-3 gallons of water and put it in the carboy and then make the wort out of 3-4gallons and then mixed it up in the carboy? cause if this is what u did then probly u just did not get all the sugars mixed up enoff to get a...

ive used safale s04 sense i started making cider and every time it came out great..