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This weekend I am planning to brew an Imperial Stout and a Stout with some buddies. The plan is for each of us to do 4 identical mashes (20 lb. grain bill each). Take the first 7 gallons off our first runnings and brew a 5 gallon Imperial with a massive 2000ml yeast starter (001). Then take all...

Fellow beer peeps, I need your wisdom and advice. I have a 3 shank tap system in a refrigerator located in my garage. Last week beer stopped flowing and I realized I had frozen beer lines. Further inspection showed I had frozen kegs as well. I researched here and followed the advice to let...

My first AG batch in my new 20 gallon kettle had a very low amount of wort that went into the primary. I shook it off to inexperience. 2 more batches later and the same problem was occurring so I decided to take some accurate measurements. Nut Brown Ale 8.5 lb grain bill Mashed with 3...

Hey guys. Yesterday I got my 3rd all-grain batch under my belt. I've seen steady improvement in efficiency. 55-64-77!!! Feeling pretty good about it but I have a question on the best way to take a temp in the MT. Currently I'm mashing, adding a gallon or so in a high temp mash out, and...

I have searched for an answer to this here and I can't seem to find and answer to this direct question. I have 1 tap which currently has a beer on it. I racked a bath to a second corny last night and put it back in the fermenter chest. I set the psi at 10 and hoped it would carbonate this...

I have a buddy who has a few solo brews under his belt and I'm trying to help him out. I'm going to outline what he's shared and the information I've gleaned and where I've hit a wall. I'm hoping he will register and answer your questions first hand. Thanks in advance for your help. He's...

Me and a buddy started brewing about 6 years ago after initially trying our hand at wine making. We could never agree on wine and it was funny how we always drank beer while we argued so.... We recruited 3 buddies to join us and we brewed our first beer when my son was 3 weeks old. When we...

I'm hoping to learn what went wrong with my first all-grain brew today. I've done 30+ extract recipes but bit the bullet and bought an igloo mash/lauter tun. The grain bill was 12.5 lbs. I mashed 3.5 galls at 146 degrees for 1 hour. I did a batch sparge of 4 gallons at 152 degrees (went with...