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Hops Direct has great prices on hops, especially if you are willing to use prior year hops. Another cost saver is either using dry yeast, or washing and reusing your yeast. I buy my grains at LHBS, but I used to get cheap sacks of 2 row at a local brewery before they closed.

First time for me with an all-rounder as well. I’m sitting at 10 days with the pressure at just over 15 psi. I bought a picnic tap off Amazon to take gravity samples. Tonights attempt at a gravity reading: 1) Beer geyser from the hose to ball lock connection. In my haste to stop the eruption I...

I usually pitch at 80 and ferment in a 65 degree basement. I primarily use S04 and US05.

Last weekend I was chilling my brew with an immersion chiller. I normally use 25 gallons to cool 10 gallons, and I was at 30 gallons and it wouldn’t cool past 130 degrees. I had my hose hooked to the hot tap instead of the cold tap.

Thanks! I think the youngest brought it home, all of the rest of us have been vaccinated. It’s been like a bad cold so far.

Today‘s issues started Sunday. I came home from Texas and wife and youngest had COVID. I quarantined in my basement and my house ale keg was draining fast. Threw an ounce of cascades in the house ale that was in the secondary. Keg ran dry Thursday, so I racked the secondary into it. There was...

Hopefully brewing on my 3 keggle system for the last time until next summer…65l Brewzilla expected soon. Making 10 gallons of IPA with my 2 new fermzillas. I’ve got lots to learn about low o2, pressure transfers, etc. Unless I have COVID. Wife is just getting over it, one kid has it, and I got...

I’d be more worried about infection. I always dump the coffee in at the end of the boil.

Hung the last of the drywall in my basement brewery tonight. I’ll mud this weekend but can’t sand for a while. Wife has COVID so I’m sleeping in a hammock in the basement brewery…don’t want to sand mud while I’m sleeping there. Also finished developing a new IPA recipe for Saturday.

I was in the same boat a couple weekends ago. I only brewed 5 gallons instead of 20, kept a simple hop schedule, and didn’t get into the minute details. He was curious about the pH meter and hydrometer though. I’ve lent out my 20 year old copy of palmers book numerous times.

I put them about 30 yards from my garage and the deer eat them within a couple days. I’ve dumped them after the mash and deer have been eating them when I cleaned my BK.

Two 7.9 gallon all-rounders with pressure kits.

If it is in a keg you could boil some lactose in water and add it.

I have some lids with grommets that work fine. I have some with 1" or so holes that take a carboy bung. The great thing about those is that you can pull them and take a quick gravity sample with a turkey baster with minimal O2 intrusion. That's old school 2005 technology right there.

My first brew I primaried in a 5 gallon filled to the neck with a S airlock, just like I did for wine. The next morning my ceiling, walls, and floor were covered in wort. I hadn’t heard about krausen yet.

I love drinking my FG samples. Does that count? BTW, my dad switched from keeping a keg in the house to cans of PigsEye Lean when my brother and I were teenagers. I never stole one, but he gave me one when I was around 19. It was awful, worse than the Milwaukee’s Best Light and Bush Lattes I...

A couple of sauna brews!

Wired in a couple of outlets in my basement brewery. I hope to get a couple of sheets of drywall hung tomorrow. Also worked on a recipe for a wheat beer…considering using apple cider for part of the water. Any thoughts on this? I’m thinking 4# wheat, 4# Munich, 14# 2 row, cascades at around 30...

I booted up the computer from a thumb drive, and was able to get on the C drive and transfer files to the thumb drive. Some of the files were missing. It’s a handy trick. I learned it when my kid fell for the ransom ware scam.

I had a backup drive that I learned after the fact was not backing up several of my folders including that one. I was able to fire it up with windows on a thumb drive. I got my wife’s stuff, but my BeerSmith files were gone. It was version 1 so no cloud backups.