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I only follow three homebrew forums so I might not have the largest sample to compare with but... I have noticed that on the Beersmith forum there seems to be a growing influx of responses that are generated by Artificial Intelligence. I have only noticed this on that forum. Not here and not at...

What do you know about AMCYL ball lock kegs? I'm looking for 3 gallon ball locks and they have this brand for a decent price at Amazon. Any experience? Pros Cons? https://tinyurl.com/AMCYL-Kegs

I got started in homebrewing before the internet was a thing and the liquor store that sold homebrew supplies didn't have a large selection of books for sale (The Joy Of Homebrewing was it). So by the time I learned of Michael Jackson he had passed and was already being shown to be wrong on...

I've been trying to figure this game out and right from the start in the tutorial I'm stuck. The first task is to fill a boil kettle with 5.5 gallons of water. But when I do this the checkbox in this step remains unchecked and the next task is not provided. Anyone else experience this?

I have two beers in the fridge that appear to have been bottle conditioned... Ommegang Abbey Ale and Flensburger Weizen. Does anyone know if I can harvest the yeast from either of these ?

There has been much discussion lately about using AI to create beer recipes. I signed up with a text-to-speech AI site and cloned my own voice. I uploaded a short sample of my voice from a previous video to the AI tool and then typed in a script for what was supposed to be a YouTube #Short. (The...

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I have an original style SS Brewtech 7gal Chronical fermenter with a 1.5" TC opening in the lid. I currently use that with a blow off tube. I would like to get a dry hopper as shown in the link below but how would I use it AND the blow off tube on the same opening...

1890 Truman Porter 8 lbs 8.0 oz Chevallier Heritage (Crisp) (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 68.0 % 0.66 gal 1 lbs 4.0 oz Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 2 10.0 % 0.10 gal 12.0 oz BEST Black Malt (BESTMALZ) (609.1 SRM) Grain 3 6.0 % 0.06 gal 2 lbs Invert Sugar No. 3 [Boil] (70.0 SRM) Sugar 4 16.0 %...

I had an electrician at the house recently to do some work in the basement. While he was here I asked if he could also wire my Anvil Foundry 10.5 to use the outlet for my dryer. I am not an electrician and know next to nothing about it so forgive me if I don't use the correct terms... the dryer...

I've only made two wine kits and my third is a Port. A Winexpert Apre's Desert Win (Port) kit. I misread step 3 of the instructions and racked into a secondary vessel. I was supposed to just add the flavor pack and Chitosan into the fermenter and THEN rack to a secondary 25 days later. Was...

Here is another recipe from Ron Pattinson's blog, Shut Up About Barclay Perkins. This from the Heineken brew logs in 1936. The gravity of this one makes it too strong to have been sold in Germany as a Märzen. Like their Meibier a few years later this one didn't last long in the Heineken...

This was Heineken's attempt in 1939 to make a seasonal beer brewed in the spring and served later in the summer very much like a German Märzen. It was only brewed in 1939 and then abandoned. The idea was to have a Bok strength beer but much paler in color. I made this in January and just started...

Every fall as deer season approaches gas stations and party stores in northern Michigan sell bags of shelled corn as bait. I'm wondering if this corn could be used to make mash?

I found this recipe on Ron Pattinson's blog, Shut Up About Barclay Perkins. Amstel is not a beer I know anything about except that they brew lagers. So it came as a surprise to see the word Stout attached to the Amstel name. I brewed this as soon as I read Ron's article which states that Stouts...

One of my Tilt's has been giving me this error... {"status":-5,"error":"unsupported URL"}. Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks

Who makes a good ball lock spunding valve?

I was unable to read the most recent edition of Zymurgy on my iPhone so I planned to delete the app and then reinstall to see if that resolved the issue. However when I searched the Apple App Store it doesn't even show the Zymurgy app. So I went to the AHA website and clicked the link they...

Is there any manufacturer out there who makes a small batch eBIAB system? I move my brewing indoors during the winter months and make 2.5 gallon BIAB batches on my kitchen stove. While brewing yesterday I couldn't help thinking how much easier it would be to hit and maintain mash temps if I had...

For those using 3 vessel electric HERMS systems what is your process from heating strike water and dough-in to mash recirculation and sparge. The issues I'm facing are... 1) Losing a lot of heat in the dough-in process. I heat strike water to recommended temperature but immediately after...