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In 2012 I had the opportunity to fill a corny while volunteering at Saint Somewhere Brewing. The beer is a farmhouse ale that was open fermented with brett and a saison yeast and it has been in this keg for 18 months. Keg finally blew tonight. How should I go about cleaning this keg to make...

Ok so I've been brewing for long enough now (about 6 years) but since my son was born 2 years ago my brew sessions have been few and far between, and I've not read nearly as much as I used to nor kept up with the forums here.... I brewed a 'batch' partigyle a couple weeks ago. I used enough...

I am participating in a homebrew contest being put on by a local beer distributor. It's designed to get their employees to learn more about the brewing process. Anyways, each team is allowed to have one outside member, so a guy that I know who works there invited me to be on his team. We are...

I recently built an eHERMS control box using an Auber PID/SSR. I'm curious if I can make this a dual-purpose controller... On brew day I'll use it to control the heating element in my HLT, and then I'd like to use it as a temperature controller for my small fridge that I ferment in... Right now...

I got a fancy new counterflow chiller for Father's day so I'm putting my immersion chillers up for sale. I originally had a single 25' chiller that I bought from an online vendor (I don't remember where, it was 4 years ago) and then I added another 25' of tubing. The two coils are connected by...

I'm in the process of building my new HERMS controller. My HERMS system will be very basic, I'm building it to be very portable. I'll be using a 1500W heatstick in my HLT, the controller will control this and I'm using a toolbox as the housing for the controller. I have a similar toolbox...

I have about 20 lbs of Weyerman German Pilsen that I need to do something with. Here's the backstory... I'm in charge of organizing a grain buy for members of our homebrew club who are participating in Big Brew day this weekend at our LHBS. The club is buying grain and hops for anyone who...

Yesterday I finally got around to pouring the epoxy over my keezer top.... This was only my 3rd time working with this stuff, the first two pours were for the coffin box top and then the back splash on the coffin, as seen in the photo below. All went well with the first two pours, I was able to...

Not sure which forum this belongs in so putting here... On Wednesday I had the amazing opportunity to help out with a brew at my local brewery… I’m sure a few of you have heard of it, a little place called Cigar City Brewing You may be asking yourself, how does one get such an...

Is it possible to power multiple PC case fans in series off a single DC power adapter? If so, any pointers on how to do this? I'm planning to start construction on my new keezer this weekend and will be using multiple case fans to cool the coffin box as well as to move air around the freezer...

I built my first coffin keezer back in the summer of 2010 using an old Whirlpool freezer that was the perfect size to hold 6 cornies on the floor and 2 on the hump with a collar. It was my first attempt at a project like this and I learned A LOT from the build. Unfortunately the compressor...

I just purchased a used GE 7.0 freezer off Craigslist that I'm going to use for my upcoming keezer build. This will be my second build, my first keezer died about a year ago. I learned A LOT from my first keezer build, including the fact that my design for that keezer is probably what lead to...

Cigar City and my local beer bar put on a raffle during the month of November and the grand prize winner gets to be 'brewer for a day' at CCB... Whelp, I WON the raffle! Not sure how much say I'll have in what is brewed, they did this same thing last year and the guy who won brewed one of their...

I brewed up a citra pale ale about 6 weeks ago that has been kegged and is waiting patiently to be consumed next weekend. I'm thinking it would be good to hit it with some dry hops but I've been out of the game too long and I can't remember how much to use... I'm going to be using whole-leaf...

Is it a bad idea to do a 'delayed' dry hop? I brewed up a sessionable citra pale ale that I'm planning to serve at the tailgate party for the USF-FSU football game on September 29th. I jumped the gun on brewing it a little bit. It will be ready to keg this weekend so I'm thinking I might just...

I'm thinking about using these to bottle a batch of beer for a homebrew contest I'll be participating in later this summer. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=23674&catid=805&clickid=searchresults I contacted the company and they said that these are not marked as food-safe...

I have been invited to participate in a private homebrew contest that is being put on by a local beer distributor. It's for the employees of the distributor but they can have outside folks as team members. It's a pretty fun event, I did it last year as well, very unlike any other homebrew...

I went to SAVOR last year and had such a great time that I bought tickets for myself and a couple buddies to go once again this year. Unfortunately life has gotten in the way and it turns out I won't be able to get up to DC for this afterall. I have 3 tickets available for the Saturday session...

I’m looking for some guidance regarding collecting and reusing yeast dregs. My situation is a little different than most who are trying to culture the dregs from a bottle… I have a 5 gallon corny keg of Saison Athene from Saint Somewhere brewing that I received as payment for volunteering...

I just got an email about a new piece of equipment that my company is selling.... I work in a different division so I have no idea what it costs, but my guess is it's gotta be at least $50K+... I'll be at a convention in a couple weeks where they'll have one, I might have to see if they'll let...