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Kegged two beers on the same day. My usual method is to put under 30 psi and check every so often until I cut it down to serving pressure. One keg has carbed wonderfully. The other is as flat as is was out of the carboy. No leaks. Would've emptied the tank. Checked the pressure on the...

Putting on the final touches today. I think it even makes the beer taste better. Lol

Hi ~ I have a bourbon barrel I've used twice for bourbon barrel stouts. I keep Makers Mark in it when it's not holding beer. After I bottle, I rinse out the barrel and dump in another bottle of Makers. My question is, can I dump out the bourbon, rinse it really well, and pour in a...

Does the temperature of the beer have an effect on dry hopping? I'm planning on a two week dry hop in a keg while the beer is carbing up in the kegerator. If it's too cold to extract the aroma from the hops, how would I go about pressurizing the keg for dry hopping and leave it at room...

Hi, 2 days ago I racked a 10% Imperial Oatmeal Stout into my 5 gallon oak barrel that's been holding Makers Mark in it for a few months. I poured out the remaining bourbon and transferred the beer right in there, purged the head space, and shoved in an airlock. My question is.... how long...

Please let me know what you think about this recipe for an Imperial Oatmeal Stout. I have time for some minor changes, but tomorrow will be brew day! 10 gallon batch - 14 gallon preboil volume Grain Bill 28 lb 2-row 1 lb Roasted Barley 2 lb Chocolate Malt 1 lb De-bittered black malt...

I have several hops plants I grew this summer in I think about 4-5 gallon pots. Well, I'm moving and can't plant them in the ground or store them inside. Will they survive the Chicago winter outside in their pots? This was their first year. I will plant them in the ground come spring when I'm...

I cold crashed my beer in the chest freezer down to 43 to drop out the yeast before transferring into the keg. Well at some point while it was cooling it decided to suck up the water out of the container and about a half gallon of it is sitting on top of the beer. It's clearly separated having...

Hello, I just got natural gas ran from my basement out to my garage for my brew stand. I have 1/2 pipe on the brew stand with 3 banjo burners. The pipe coming in from the source is 1/2 as well. However, when I hooked it up the pressure was a little low. Could the size of my flex hose be...

So I brewed two different 10 gallon batches and now have 4 carboys full of beer stuck at about a full point short of full fermentation. One is an APA and the other is an oatmeal stout. I'm looking for a way to get these going again to get them to ferment out all the way. I used California...

This is my recipe for today that half will end up in a secondary of a 5 gallon toasted oak barrel from Old Sugar in WI that's been holding a bottle of Makers Mark for about 2 months. It's a 10 gallon batch so the other half will remain a regular oatmeal stout that will get a spot on the tap...

Anyone have a heads up where to grab some simcoe pellets? No luck for quite a long time now.

Call into chugger pumps today if you want a stainless head impeller pump for your brew stand. Site is down but they will take phone orders. Great deal and the next shipment doesn't come in for another 2 months.

Any ideas on what happened here? Ok, so I wanted to enter a pale ale I made into a competition a few weeks ago. The beer was kegged and in order to get it into the bottle I just turned the gas down to around 4 or 5 psi and let it trickle into the bottle until I had a handful of bottles...

Hello, So I'm going to start my build soon of my single tier brew stand. I was able to aquire all the steel parts and gas plumbing from this lovely web site with all of the specific parts listed. Single tier Home brewery So when I get it all welded up in a couple weeks, thanks to the bro...

I brewed a batch of pale ale yesterday and pitched it with the yeast slurry off the bottom of a batch of Belgian strong ale. The og was 1.056 and after 18 hrs still no activity. Does anyone think it will take off and begin fermenting? The Belgian came out great!

It looks as if I had a leak in one of my kegs. I left for the weekend and had under half a tank of co2 and when I came back it had dropped 25% to just about empty. Poured some water over the lids and found the culprit. The problem is I can't understand why it would be leaking? All of the kegs...

So I made a ten gallon batch of Belgian Strong ale and split into two fermenters. However I pitched the yeast prior to racking to primary. Both fermenters exploded with activity within 4 hrs and continued for about 3 days or so and both have completely stopped bubbling through the blow off...

What will the result of my Belgian Strong Dark Ale be if my mash temp went too low (143ish)? I put together a huge grain bill and filled my mash tun to the very top and ended up losing some temperature. I was shooting for 148 but it dropped to 145 and then slowly to 143 or 142 at the end of...

Hi, I've been getting into brewing over that last couple years. It has been a long and fullfilling process slowing upgrading from small extract brewer to 10 gallon all grain. Even if my setup is a little "ghetto". I'm always reading on here but have not joined up until now. I'm starting to...