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Going to brew my annual wee heavy with Wyeast 1728. I typically grow up my yeast from a fresh pack but I'd like to repitch this time. Does anyone have any good recommendations for a lower gravity beer using this yeast? Particularly, anything that's not just the average Scottish 60/70/80?

I live in MN and have about 5 months of lager temps in my garage. I'm considering building some sort of chamber out of 2x4's, plywood, and rough insulation as a space in my garage to store kegs of beer that are lagering or in need of cold storage. If I wired up an STC-1000 to a heating...

I'm going to brew my first Baltic Porter this week with the grist loosely based on Jamil's recipe from BCS. I like the way the grain bill looks but I don't have the hops he lists. What would be a good hop for a Baltic Porter? I have Hallertau, Perle, Liberty, German Magnum, and quite a few...

I've never used WLP007 before but I want to give it a try for my IPAs in the future. What beers would you recommend brewing with this yeast for the first few generations before repitching later to an IPA? I'm looking for something with low gravity and that's tasty to start with.

I recently starting brewing more and more lagers and I'm running into a storage problem. I keg all of my beers and counterpressure fill to bottles for competitions and to share. I want to age some of my bigger beers (doppelbock, dunkel, etc.) to see how the flavors develop over the course of a...

I got trigger happy on Ebay when I ordered some new ballvalves and ended up with some SS reduced ports. They are the exact same as the valve shown here: http://www.brewbrothers.biz/Ball-Valve-12-SS-STD I had ordered four of these to use on the input and output to my HERMS coil in my HLT and...

Hi all, I brewed my first lager on 6/28/13 and checked my gravity on 7/21/13. I brewed an Oktoberfest with an OG of 1.055 and I was hoping to get it down to 1.015-1.016. When I checked the gravity, the hydrometer first read 1.015 and then after 15 seconds or so the sample had created enough...

My local water report reads as follows: Ca: 72 Mg: 24.5 Na: 10.0 S04: 46 Cl: 5 HC03: 317.2 I got this from John Palmer's calculation in How to Brew. Alkalinity listed as CaC03 on report: 260 I've been using RO water with salt additions to fine tune my water profiles for my last...

Here is a picture of some yeast I pulled from primary about a week ago. I rinsed the yeast once and then decanted it into two large flasks. After those two flasks settled, I poured that yeast into a smaller flask to measure it. I'm going to be brewing a 1.050 Pale Ale soon and was wondering...

I recently upgraded my Top Tier system to use three burners. Does anyone have a good use for the Shelf Tier that I used to use? The stand only comes with enough support struts for three tiers, making the Shelf Tier now useless.

I recently upgraded to a 10 lb C02 tank and would like to move it from inside my keezer to the outside to allow for extra space. Running the line outside the keezer is easy enough as I can drill a hole through my wood collar and put the tank behind the keezer. There's spare space under my...

Hi guys. I recently bought a Top Tier with 2 burners and a shelf tier. After I had everything installed, I got a screaming deal on a third burner. I'd like to have all three burners attached to the mast and use the shelf tier as an overgrown "utility shelf". I won't have a lot of weight on...

I have a slightly used Banjo Propane Burner for sale. This is model number KAB4 which is 14" wide and 30 psi. It has a 10 inch cast iron burner and is great for oversized pots up to 120 quarts because it puts out 210K BTUs! It is a one-piece design that is 9-3/4 inches high. It is made for use...

I'm looking for some advice for the future. I'm starting to acquire everything I need for a brew stand I'm the future but I don't want to overshoot what I'll need. Right now I have a 15 gallon SS Brewpot and I use a 10 gallon cooler for a mash tun. I have one banjo burner and I brew 5 gallon...

I brewed my first Saison 8 days ago and it appears that fermentation is already complete... Impossible? I brewed Jamil's Saison from BCS and the OG was 1.063. After 6 days in primary I tested the gravity and it was 1.006 with an ADF of around 90%. Before I brewed I heard stories that this yeast...

I finally got around to having couplers welded into my boil kettle. I had hoped to just use a 90 as a pickup tube as I'd saw that on another post. However when dry fitting, I noticed that I'd leave a gallon or so in my kettle if I went that route. Instead, I used a half inch hose barb as a...

Hi all, I'm looking for some advice for my next brewery purchase. I have about $100-$200 burning a hole in my pocket and I want to get the best bang for my buck. I'm currently an all-grain brewer brewing in a 15 gallon mega pot with a cooler MLT. My girlfriend gave me a March Pump for...

Does anyone think this could replace an alcohol lamp? I'm thinking of making this and filling with alcohol instead of lamp oil. http://www.instructables.com/id/Light-Bulb-Lamp/#step1

I posted this in a different area originally but thought it'd be a better question/topic for this one. Does anyone have pictures of their conicals in fermentation chambers? Any links to threads? I have an stc-1000 wired up to control a chamber and I'm thinking of using a chest freezer but...

Does anyone have pictures of their conicals fermentation chambers? Any links to threads? I have an stc-1000 wired up to control a chamber and I'm thinking of using a chest freezer but I'm not sure if it would be the best option for a conical. I am mostly interested in a conical for...