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Hi all, I've been homebrewing for 11 years now and have finally decided to build a home bar above my garage. I'm looking for a 4 tap kegerator that has 3 doors, but can safely be built into a bar and not overheat (front vented). Something like this...

Hi all, About 2-3 weeks ago I decided last minute to brew a lager. I got all my ingredients but I didn't have enough time to step up a large enough starter.That's OK, I thought, I'll just sanitize everything really well and pump it into my unitank at boiling and pitch later. So I did that. I...

My friend and I are going to be making a Double IPA this weekend hopefully using the heady yeast we gathered. We poured the last ~20% of 2 cans into our flask and added starter wort and left it at 68 for about a month (because we forgot about it, tbh). After that we cold crashed and decanted...

Hi all! It's been a busy spring / early summer and time has flown! I have a company event coming up on the 25th of next month and I was planning on brewing a beer. The soonest I can brew is next weekend, which gives me a little under 4 weeks to ferment and carb. I can quick carb the beer...

Hello everyone, I am sad to say that, after 4+ years of infection free brewing, I have an infection. The beer was fine in the primary. The infection seems to have been developed during the process of secondary-ing. I have confirmed it's an infection, it had that white-milky stuff and a bubble...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for an NPT threaded... valve (I guess) that spins when water is run through it at a low pressure. I know there are CIP balls, but they are very high pressure. Kind of like those joints in commercial dish washers. I can't imagine these don't exist, they're pretty...

Hi all, I brewed a single hop APA using Comet hops. Got a nice yeast starter and pitched at 68F. Been fermenting at 18C. I came downstairs after work on Monday and could hear it chugging from ~20 feet away, in my ferm chamber. My ferm chamber smells powerfully of Pineapple. This morning I...

Hi all, The longest lasting reoccurring issue in my brew day is handling all the god-damn hop goop formed during boil and dry-hopping. It really takes a huge chunk of my beer! I'm a bit of a hop head, and like to make APAs and IPAs with a ton of hops. Yesterday I made a APA with 6 oz of...

Hi all, My brew partner and I are ramping up our brewing this summer and we're looking to improve out mash temperature stability. Our plan is to mash in a 10 gallon rubbermaid cooler with a false bottom. The idea is we are going to attach a pump to the spigot and pump the wort through my wort...

I posted this in the general beer discussion forum on accident, and since I can't move it... I guess I'll just post it again in the correct forum: Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my equipment a bit. I brewed with my friend's father in secret for my friend's wedding in his gorgeous brewery...

Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my equipment a bit. I brewed with my friend's father in secret for my friend's wedding in his gorgeous brewery setup and I was completely infatuated with the cleanliness and ease of his quick disconnect / chugger pump setup. Pricing out my upgrade to 1/2" ID...

I've never used this strain of yeast, could someone tell me whether or not it is supposed to kind of smell like Apple cider vinegar / kind of fart-y? I pitched a little warm and it's been going for about 9 hours on my stir plate. No krausen but plenty of growth, by volume.

Hi all, Long story short, I bought yeast today to make a starter for a wit I'm brewing on Saturday. Low O. G., 1.048, but I only have ~66 bil cells and need 406. I have a stir plate and a 2L flask, do you think I have enough time to get 400? I'm planning on doing a 1.5L tonight and then...

Hi guys, I know this isn't technically soda brewing, but I figured you all would be the best to ask. Normally we homebrew and keg our beers, but we're planning on a dry spell for a bit and want to keep the kegerator in use. We're huge fans of Coke Zero, but I can't find any information of...

Hi all, A quick backstory is that the guy I brew with and I wanted to try our hand at making our own recipe from scratch as a good way to learn more about brewing. We decided we wanted to work towards making a good Belgian Pale Ale. Our first attempt ended up with a weak body and tasting like...

Hey all! My first big beer was also a 1.12 OG'r and it's been aging since July, we're cracking the keg in December, pretty excited! For that one we did a step-up starter and added a lot of DME to get that daunting number. My buddy and I are now considering a Barley Wine, which we also plan...

Hello all, I'm working on my first batch of cider, it's currently fermenting happily on S-04. Our goal here is to make a pumpkin cider by secondarying on pumpkin, cinnamon sticks, nutmeg seeds and a vanilla bean. My question is: all of these things are safe in beer, is there anything I...

I transfered my RIS into a keg to age @~18C about a month ago now (will be done in December) and we tried a little bit of it and it's grainy. Most likely from the cocoa powder we added. Will cold crashing fix this? It wasn't the most pleasant thing in the world.

Hi all, 100% new to cider, fairly experienced in beer. This would obviously be considered an infection in beer-land, but since I don't know anything about cider I figured I'd ask. We bought 5 gallons of local unpasteurized cider to ferment over the weekend, but all our LHBS which are...

Hi all! I have a big RIS that I'm going to age in a keg until December, but I have a couple questions. 1. Should we cold crash it before we trasnsfer it to the keg for aging? I know cold crashing is mostly for clarity, but I've never aged a beer this long and I worry about it sitting on...