cleaning equipment

The wine has been sobered up, the lights and music are just right, the atmosphere is charming, you are about to invite your sweetheart to share a drink, but when you pour the wine, you find that there is a lipstick sticking to the wine glass! This is an embarrassing situation that can be...

I recently got a CIP spray ball, curious if there was some magic there that made cleaning my kettle or fermentor easier. I've tried it once so far, and realized that as simple as it seems, it definitely needs the right process to make it worthwhile. In my attempt, I was hauling buckets of...

Good afternoon! I just had my first all-grain brew day Sunday and I was wishing that I had something more absorbent than my clean red shop rags when I had a spill while racking into my hydrometer. Then it hit me, that I wished I'd had some decent drying towels to dry out my kettle and wort...

A friend donated to me a couple 5-gallon pin lock kegs that he hasn’t used in years. I gathered it has been something like 8-10 years. There is a tad bit of beer left in one, and the other is almost half full. Besides questioning my friend’s sanity for leaving a keg of homebrew unfinished, what...