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So I decided to brew tonight. It’s an extract 20 minute boil. I didn’t have time to get the yeast out earlier today and so I’m wondering if it’s cool to just smack the cold yeast pack and dump it in right away? Will that cause any problems?

Decided to go through my garage and sell off the stuff I don’t need or use anymore. The beer gun, I bought it and never used it, you can have it and the accessory kit for $60. The Blichman Therminator chiller and hoses is $100. The Rip Tide pump, I’d like $200 for it, I bought it and never used...

At a garage sale recently, I obtained a few cans of Billy Beer and they told me that since it’s over 40 years old not to open the cans and drink them, the guy said it’d probably taste like rust. Since I was born a few years after Billy Beer went out of business, has anyone who had it remember...

I got a free three tap draft beer tower and so I was thinking I’d just drill a hole in the keezer lid and put the tower on the lid. Are there any sort of articles or YouTube videos out there showing you how to do such a project? Pretty everything I’ve seen online has been about adding a wood...

I got back from a week long vacation this past Sunday. The garage has stunk since I came back and figured I must have thrown some sort of food in the garbage can in the garage. So last night I pulled the bag and took it out with the rest of the trash but this morning before work it still stunk...

Basically, I have a chest freezer with a temp controller. i have three kegs and cobra taps. Pretty cheap and easy set up. Last night I had family over and some stupid family member (probably my careless brother who once unplugged our fridge full of food while we were on vacation) removed the...

About six months ago I bought a used keezer from a guy who had stopped homebrewing and who has since moved about 1200 miles away. It worked great for about 5 months until Mother's Day when I went to pour myself a beer from it and it was room temperature warm. I plugged it in without the Johnson...

So I was cleaning the basement and my package of Nottingham for tomorrow is inflated and soft. It says not to use it if it's like that. Should I use it or go back to the store and get a different package?

I'm making a Nugget Brown Ale today and I ended up with an OG of 1.074. (I took a sample right before I ended the boil and let it cool in the snow). I have a packet of S-04 and I'm wondering if one is enough. If not, I got a bunch of US-05 that I found on sale for $2 each and can pitch two packets.

I'm about to start my second growing season. My first had mixed results. I got a Centennial rhizome that did a pretty good job, ended up with a half ounce of dry hops. I was a bit discouraged by that at first, but I remember my mom telling me that her first year of growing her new raspberry...

I decided to brew a Dopplebock after having a lot of fun and success with my first lager last winter. My basement garage is usually between 48 and 54. The lowest I've seen it was 44 and that's when it was about -20 outside. There's nothing like that coming up anytime soon. So the Monday...

It's windy and cold out. Can I just leave this in here and use it with the door open? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I ended up only getting 5 ounces from my first year growing them. I originally planted two Centennial rhizomes, but one of them died and never grew. I took it back to the LHBS and the owner gave me a Willamette rhizome, I planted it and it promptly got flooded by the the June flooding here in...

This is my fifth time making a yeast starter. The first four times, I had no problem with it, in less than a day I had a lot of yeast settled to the bottom of the flask. I made a starter yesterday morning. This morning I woke up and there still wasn't a colony of yeast settled to the bottom. Is...

Yesterday my brother and I were at our parents house for lunch and as I was leaving, he handed me a 1/2 gallon growler that he bought from a local brew pub (that had beer in it that he finished off). He asked me to fill it up for him and bring it over to his place. I guess I could. I said to...

Can the handheld tap and line leak co2?

I just finished off a delicious IPA that I dry hopped. A few hop particles made it's way in to the keg and now I got a few stuck at the bottom that won't come out no matter how many times I rinse out the keg. Can I just throw in some PBW and let it do it's job?

I got home from work this morning and decided to have a nice cold beer. I got nothing from the keg. I guessed that it was empty, so I unplugged the kegerator and took a look inside the keg. It was over half full. Turns out that I have an empty co2 tank. Are the 2.5 pound tanks supposed to last...

Last week, I bought this kegerator for $299 on Wal-Mart.com. I was excited to start kegging my beer instead of having to bottle it. On Tuesday morning I transferred the first batch from the fermentor to the keg and set it up to force carbonate in the fridge. I was pretty happy with the...

I have iBrewmaster on my iPad and take it with me to the homebrew shop when I get my ingredients. Anyways, in my haste, I put in half a pound of Briess Caramel 120L instead of half a pound of Briess Caramel 20L. I didn't realize it until I got home with my ingredients. Is this going to be a...