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We're finally building a home and I'm currently working up my plan details. One piece of planning is surrounding my future brew room. I want a trench drain with a sloping floor. One thought that I've had is where to send this waste water. I think, based on my review of applicable code literature...

The Warrenton Brewers Guild will be having our kickoff meeting of 2020 at Powers Farm & Brewery in Warrenton, VA on February 6th, 2020 at 7:00pm if anyone is interested in joining. Educational topic will be building your own keg and fermenter washer. We'll do a bottle swap and have some...

Looking to make a clone of Bling Bling Bon Bon, have an idea of the hops bill, but looking to fill out a malt profile to get that awesome body with the subtle clean sweetness. Thoughts?

I’m in the process of outfitting a brewtroller electric brewery. I have looked at the various configurations and designs. It seems like folks are either down 2 elements or 4 elements (commercial settings). I currently have a Brutus 10 propane setup and I direct fire my mash tun. Originally I...

So my wife has been after me to make her Cider for a long time. She handed me a recipe and wants to try tonight. I have 5 gallons of preservative free apple juice, but she didn’t get yeast so I would like to just use the Trappist ale yeast that I’m going to have left after I take my Belgian...

I was watching a video with my son and then before I knew it I found myself watching how to make a skittles cake and its components for the last 30 minutes...

I’ve got a Saison, it’s at day 9 and has gone from a starting gravity of 1.086 to 1.032. It’s still putting along but isn’t very vigorous at this point. Not that I’m throwing in the towel yet, but at what point would y’all consider adding champagne yeast to dry it out? [edit] I should mention...

So I transplanted my hops two years ago and he last two years I’ve had about one to four poorly yielding bines that managed to climb. So here you can see they’ve surfaced for 2018. I want to improve their climbing and yield but I need to know where to go from here. I’m thinking about trimming...

So in my time time homebrewing ~6 years. I've been through 2 keezers. Both have just stopped cooling with the compressor running which I figure is a coolant leak down. Am I just unlucky or have others had reliability issues with DIY keezers? I'm debating between buying a new chest freezer to...

One of our club members has a banana bread amber beer that turned out poorly. It's under attenuated and has a bit of a funk. He doesn't want to dump it so I've considered the possibility of him souring it to potentially have some Brett or Pedio sour and clean it up. He already tried repitching...

My Brutus 10 system has developed some brown staining on the inside of my stainless components and silicone tubing. While the tubing is easy enough to replace, I have to figure there is come sort of cleaning substance that will remove this material. Perhaps a caustic cleaner? Are there any...

Good evening HBT, Tomorrow evening will be the monthly meeting of the Warrenton Brewer's Guild at 7pm at Black Bear Bistro in Warrenton, VA. If you're interested in joining come out and meet the crew.

Monthly meeting on August 3rd at Black Bear Bistro a 7PM. Everyone is welcome.

Ok so I just got some competition results back and generally they were favorable with no real surprises. Things I expected except that one judge flagged DMS. Went on to say beer was good but hiding major flaw. Said there was potential for too high mash temp or bad cooling. I know neither of...

Can anyone tell me what DIN size these are? I'm hoping for 1/16, but I'm not sure.

So in the next month I want to buy two mini-refrigerators to use with my BrewPi system for fermentation temp control. I think I'm going to order online, but that means I can't test fit my buckets. So.... Any recommendations on a fridge that could fit a 5 gallon fermenter bucket and or a SS...

:drunk: A pox on the National Homebrew Competition, how dare they avert their pallets from my heavenly swill in favor of mere mortal ales. May their goats find no solace and their socks forever effervesce of elderberries! A pox I say! :goat: In all honesty the other beers were probably...

The Warrenton Brewer's Guild is putting together a big brew day sometime in the end of April to brew a single hop ale. Each Brewer will use identical recipes save for the hops. If you're interested in helping us with the trial let me know.

So I have four cascade plants that have flourished over the last 3 years. Unfortunately they have gotten far too large in the area next to the deck and are literally conquering my deck in the later half of the summer. I'd like to move them to a proper backyard hop yard where they can grow to...

So when I initially polished my kegs I'm not sure if I get all the old bits of label adhesive off. I ended up with some darkened sections from where I think it smeared. Anyways, is there something I would wipe them down with before continuing to polish? Something that will remove adhesives and...