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Like a lot of brewers, I store my gear in the basement. When I want to brew, drag it all outside, brew, clean it, drag it back into the basement for storage. I recently saved up enough cash to expand my existing shed, where I had to move stuff to brew at, so I began a DIY project to create a...

Does someone have gallon markings on their Speidel 30L fermenter and would help a brother out by sharing the measurements?

I had finished brewing my first pumpkin ale of the season yesterday and had my yeast re-hydrating. I had some sanitized foil covering the measuring cup that the yeast was in. I removed the foil and there was a fly in the cup with the yeast. It must have crawled under the foil in a spot where...

About two weeks ago I was reading one of the many threads on yeast washing and there was discussion around using non-alcoholic beer since this will keep the yeast in the environment it was in and that boiled water isn't really sterile water. I had made a pumpkin ale using US-05 and had...

I have one of these and just put a 5 gallon batch (6 gallons total) in it and put it in my fermentation chamber. When I lifted it, I noticed the handles flexed a little. My question is for anyone that uses one of these, will the handles be able to support a 10 gallon batch? Have you lifted...

I have a 62 quart Bayou Classic pot. I am thinking about doing a 11 gallon batch of BM's Centennial Blonde. I have my boil off set, in Beersmith, to 2 gallons per hour which is fairly accurate. Beersmith tells me I need 13.96 gallons at the start of the boil. This would put my wort level to...

...for a stir bar. It seems that I misplaced my stir bar and in a panic called my SWMBO while she was at work. She works in a medical laboratory. I asked her if they had any stir bars. She told me they had gotten rid of all of them but she would double check. This is what she found and...

Went to get a homebrew last night and when I pulled the tap I received that pfffft sound that you get when a keg kicks. Now I knew this couldn't be right because I had only pulled one pint of this brand new keg of delicious cream ale. So I opened my keezer and found this. Not good...