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My wife and I recently got a wine kit and added the water. It said to rack to a secondary after a week. Unfortunately, we missed this date by two weeks due to unexpected events. Were this my beer, I wouldn't be concerned and don't usually secondary anyway, but it seems like it's more...

Hello electrical gurus - can anyone tell me what this is? (see picture) It runs off of a 240v 30a single-pole square d breaker in my garage which is labeled "compressor" and turned off. Just oustide the garage, there is a little custom shed that was built to house a large compressor tank that...

I have a bizarre situation that I'd love an answer to. I have a 25lb C02 tank that was at least 1/2 full as of last week. I went to draw a beer a couple of days ago and had no pressure. Here are some notes on the situation: I'd had these same two kegs hooked up for over a month. As of a...

I've finally purchased a modest mill and have my first fairly satifactory crush following a couple of lbs to adjust. any suggestions? i picked upa lb of rice hulls as weel, and might toss in a couple handfuls for good measure. the mill is a Millars b3..seems nice enough so far.

HI All I just completed my mash. Nailed the dough-in, lost one degree over the hour. Mashed out, fly sparged trickle-speed with my false-bottom in a 10G beverage cooler. I don't know what happened, or what to do. My pre-boil should have been 1.079, and I'm at 1.048. Should I dump it...

I'm brewing a recipe today that calls for steeping a couple of oz for 30 to 45 minutes after flameout. Ive always rushed to cool the wort as quickly as possible on flameout as it's been driven home in every book or article I've ever read as imperative. Should i throw the hops in and start...

So I just listed some brewing goods on Craigslist, and as I do habitually, searched for homebrew. And well, I found a real strange one today. I suppose there are ways in which this might be helpful, but I couldn't help but LOL. Let's take a glass carboy at 10 lbs, fill it with 6 gallons...

I have an opportunity to trade a pin lock keg for a CO2 tank and am getting it all cleaned up for the other party. I was going to convert it, but hadn't gotten around to it and find more value in a second CO2 tank than another vessel for my needs. It looks to be in excellent condition, but I...

For christmas, I gave my Aunt a selection of my beer, and a case of any beer of her choosing. She's always been a brave beer drinker, every-time I saw her over the years she had a different beer, or selection of beers. Always one to try something new...I envy that to be honest :) Anyway...

I'm using Wyeast 1968 London ESB for the first time, and also using my DIY stir-plate for the first time, so I've nothing to compare my experiences to. I read that this is a highly flocculant yeast, but if I pick up my starter off of the stir plate, it sets up like cement within 15 seconds...

Perhaps someone can help me here. I'm a bit groggy and trying to figure out where I can adjust dates in Beersmith. It seems kind of rigid in that regard, but maybe I'm just missing something. I tend to be pretty laid back with my fermentation schedules. I adhere to a general set of...

Would someone mind going to Northernbrewer and adding any beer kit to your cart. I'm curious if you can select any yeast other than safeale? I can't seem to get anything but safeale04 for any kit and I don't know if it's just me or not. It's the same in each browser I've tried, firefox...

I thought I read on here at some point that a lot of people will kick a corny keg, leave it pressurized and then rack the next batch of beer directly into the keg without so much as a cleaning or for some, even a rinse (provided the beer is of similar style). Did I dream this? I've finished...

So there are a ton of threads here that outline the process of force carbing. The sticky thread in this forum has a half-dozen links to charts on pressure/tempurature and more than ample coverage on the process of force carbing. Yet each post I read on kegging has but a fleeting mention of the...

I'm brewing a batch today based on one of Beirmuncher's award winning recipes and it calls for 2.5lbs of Toasted Malt -2-row. I toasted it this morning and got my starter all prepped. Then I happen to read in one of my books that I shouldn't' use it for two weeks. Is this true? I've...

I have a recipe for an American Amber that is an absolute smash hit. I love it, my friends love it, my family loves it, everyone who has tasted it absolutely loves it. I've recently switched to All grain and am torn between just continuing to brew this using extract and trying to AG it. I've...

Hi! I've got a line on a Beverage Air half-barrell kegerator at about 1/6th the cost. It's setup for a Sankey, with a single draft tower and looks like it can hold four Cornys. I'm planning on replacing the tower with a double, possibly a triple and wanted to know if the fastener pattern on...

The subject says it all. I have a kettle with a thermometer, a brewers edge thermometer, a floating thermometer, a digital probe thermometer and a digital probe thermometer with the long cord on it that's separate from the display unit. 16 degrees F separate the highest from the lowest - WTF...

This may be the dumbest question in the history of HBT, but what is Cane Sugar? I googled it and found info on Cane/Beet sugar, and it seems just like plain old table sugar but I want to make sure I'm getting the right thing. The recipe in question is Old Speckled Hen from Clone Brews. I...

So I built the Rubbermaid 10 Gallon Beverage Cooler MLT based on the amazing post on this board. I then watched a video by Hokie Brew on Youtube that was an overview of the process. Anyway, my pre-boil volume was higher than what Beersmith indicated it should be and my gravity was estimated to...