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Hello, new to the forum so I hope that I am posting to the right conversation. Bought a new house with an out building. I want to continue brewing there. However, there are little options for getting water to the water for sanitation and clean up. I have a stainless steel sink from my old...

I have an upright refrigerator/freezer with a Johnson temp controller installed. It works great and has plenty of room in the lower fridge section for 2 large carboys. The top freezer section is just wasted (very cold) space. It seems like such a waste to make this area so cold just to get...

Hey all, Okay, so I got a bit carried away... but boy was this fun!

I bought a stainless steel immersion chiller that I plan to pump mash wort through, as part of a budget DIY HERMS system (with Sous Vide machine as heater). What is the best way to clean the inside of the steel coil straight from the factory? TSP? Just PBW? Soap? What’s the best practice...

I'm trying to build a version of the mill from this article and I'm having an issue with the drive mechanism. I have 1/2 nipple from the drive and a 3/8" shaft on the mill. No matter how tight I get the hose clamp as soon as grain hits the mill, it slips. I've considered grinding two flat...

Forgive me for asking if I have looked over it but I couldn't find any information on this here. I would like to make my own phosphoric acid solution as it's much cheaper then the stuff we can buy from the homebrew shop here. I found a seller that sells by the 1kg food grade phosphoric acid...

I've got a 10g Spike Brewing boil kettle and had been using a bazooka tube, a counter-flow chiller and a pump. The kettle only has one flow port, so I was just hanging the return tube over the kettle when was running boil wort through the CFC and pump to sanitize them. I was able to get kind...

I started this project a little over 3 years ago, but it took a back seat right after tearing everything apart. A couple months ago I finally started putting the shambles of my basement back together, and am very nearly done so I feel better about sharing with you all. Enjoy! Before, IDK what...

One of my favourite styles is rauchbier, is there any particular wood that is better for smoking the malt grain?

I have been lurking on here for the better part of a year benefiting from the community's knowledge without sharing any of my own successes / failures. In an attempt to give back a little, I thought I would share my fermentation stand build in the hopes that someone can learn from my mistakes...

Well, this was my first metalworking and first woodworking project. I'm surprised the wife approved it, but it turned out well. Here's how it all went down. First, the finished product: So, I started by making a rolling base. I later had to find a way to cut it off because the swivel wheels...

Hi All, I'm working on a new beer recipe and was interested to see what you all think. It's currently fermenting so it's going to be more of an explanation so we'll see how this goes. I started out with 7.5 lbs of American Wheat (american because i started making it on the 4th) 3 lbs of...

After moving into the new house, I've been boiling wort at the stove instead of outside. I then have to make the treacherous journey down a couple stairs and ~30 feet away from the stove to the back patio, all while carrying 50 lbs of boiling-hot wort. This is of course a bad idea, so I...

After hours of searching for an article of someone making their own version of a robobrew or grainfather, I couldn’t find one that really came all that close to the real thing. I came up with a plan to make a hybrid of a “robofather” and an electric BIAB rims system. For anyone looking to make...

Specifically, my question is; does anyone who places their burners on stands on top of a wooden brew stand experience any charring with the wooden top? Also, can you please let me know what kind of burner you're using? I'm trying to establish the rough temperature range that I can expect to see...

I haven't been on here much lately but I'm still kickin'! So after a lot of thought and waffling on design I finally built my brew stand. Its completely built but I'm just waiting on some fittings before I can use it for the first time... So here goes: I decided on a 2-part construction for...

This is my first "post," not sure I'm doing it right and can't figure out the picture posting (tried uploading, tried linking ... I'll figure it out)... I'm sure there's already a thread for this, but I looked, and I'm lazy, so I didn't look hard. One of the reasons I got back into brewing was...

This is my first "post," not sure I'm doing it right and can't figure out the picture posting (tried uploading, tried linking ... I'll figure it out)... I'm sure there's already a thread for this, but I looked, and I'm lazy, so I didn't look hard. One of the reasons I got back into brewing was...

Hello fellow brewers! Looking for some ideas from the group. I use a pump to push the wort through a plate chiller into a FastFerment 14g. When I have a helper it's no problem, they just hold the hose into the top of the fermenter. The top of the fermenter is nearly 5-1/2 feet of the ground...

Another stab at building a cheap Window-AC based Chiller. I snagged the Frigidaire Analog unit from the clearance section at Sears for 25.00 out the door... Add a 35 dollar cooler, a trusty STC-1000, and a aquarium wave generator and here it is. First, build the cart, to keep the whole unit...