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I have attempted to purchase a herms coil from stainless brewing company. I have been informed you can buy a SS coil and they will coil it for you. I have attempted to contact them twice in last 1 week with no reply. Has anyone else bought from this company and how was the customer service or...

Wanted to know how many brewers are using Stout Kettles (conical-fermentor.com). I love what ive seen online but unfortuantely i have never seen one in person. Blichmann can be found at most LHBS and ive had the opportunity to look it over. Plus many people have brewed on blichmann so there are...

Considering different keggles designs. Wanting to know if anyone has cut the top off the keggles? If so, how did you create a lid? This open top design seems appealing? If anyone has cut their kegs this way and have pictures would love to look at them. As always thanks in advance for...

I am attempting to convert 2 keggles into a herms HLT and MT. I have been looking at many different set-up options. I am wanting to build a SS Herms coil with triclamp fittings. The Stout Kettles look awesome and I would love have one but the wife is not going to allow me to drop that kind of...

I have read that some suggest carbinating thru the out valve. In other words, some are pushing CO2 thru the dip tube allowing the gas to diffuse from the bottom up thru the keg. I read others are carbinating by just placing the CO2 in the out valve and filling the head space with CO2 and...

Brewed a belgium wit (first time brewing a wit) and I pitched the yeast 6 days ago, 1 week tomorrow night. It has been in my fridge/fermentor for 6 days at a constant 67 degrees. It still has a nice size "cake head" on top and bubbling approx 6/min. I am use to my previous brews to have...

Wanted to start a topic addressing the many different ideas and/or objects used to heat your fermentor or what you use to keep your beer at a constant temp.

I bought powdered form of campden tabs (sodium metabisulfite). I read a tab weights 0.44g. 0.44g/20 gallons of water is 0.022g per 1 gallon of water. what is everyone using to measure such a small quantity of powder for 5-20 gallons of water? Has anyone found a form of measurement for accurate...

Using powdered sodium metabisulfite, LHBS does not carry campden tabs. I have read that 1 tab is good for 20 gallons thus 1/2 tab for ten and so on. How much does everyone use in powder form for 20, 10 and 5 gallon batches? thanks in advance for all the help

I use a charcoal filter and was wondering is it "overkill" if i also use campden tabs. what about pH stabilizer, how does everyone feel about using this in conjunction with campden tabs and filter? thanks for the input

Below is our first attempt to creat and brew our own original recipe, an imperial IPA. I would like the forum to add suggestions and/or opinions about the below recipe. 5.5 gallon with 70% brewhouse effeciency 60 minute boil 10# 2-row pale malt 2# crystal 40L 5# American vienna...

Below is our first attempt at creating and brewing our own homebrew recipe, an imperial IPA. Would like the forum to read and add suggestions and/or opnions about the below recipe. I would also like to ask what others would suggest for a yeast strain that would work good for an imperial IPA...

5.5 gallon with 70% brewhouse effeciency 60 minute boil 10# 2-row pale malt 2# crystal 40L 5# American vienna although beersmith shows only german all cascade hops 2oz first wort hops 2oz 60 minutes 3oz 45minutes 3oz flame out IBU 101.5 ABV 7.57 SRM 12.2 OG 1.078 FG 1.020...

It appears that my evaporation rate is near the 20-25% after a 60 minute boil. The obvious answer appears to be to add a lid during the boil to decrease the amount of water im losing during my boil but i consistently read that you dont need a lid on during the boiling process. I maintain a nice...

pitched 1 package of WLP001 yeast to 5 gallon batch for sierra nevada pale ale clone. Yeast exploded and didnt get all of the yeast into fermentor. It took almost 12hrs to start burping. Is it OK to pitch another package of WL 12-16 hours after the original pitch of yeast. Im afraid attentuation...

About to start building single teir brewstand after lonnie macs design and wanted to know everyone thought about SS versus plain black metal tubing. Black metal square tubing is much cheaper but didnt know if is has the durability of SS. In addition what thickness of steel tubing does...