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So I've brewed a couple of fruit beers using canned puree that turned out fine, but I'm wanting to step it up and try out some fresh fruit. The only thing I'm really trying to figure out is how to avoid the fruit while racking. I could either ferment and carbonate in 1 single Sabco fermenter, or...

Hey guys, I'm looking to do some fancy cork and cage bottles and was wondering if anyone on here has done this? If so, which corker did you buy and which size corks for the traditional 750ml champagne style bottle? What about cages?

I have been slightly underwhelmed with the character I've been getting from both sweet and bitter orange peel. So my question is, when does everyone add them to the boil? 99% of what I read says 5 mins, but it's not contributing much of anything. Anyone ever experiment with adding them earlier...

I've got some chicory I want to use in a variation of a stout. Has anyone used this before? Is this something that needs to be boiled, or can it be put into a fermenter for a couple of weeks of aging?

I am interested in doing some refermentation techniques to create higher alcohol beers. I cannot find much information regarding the topic though, whether on here or on google. Basically all I know is you produce wort at as high of a gravity as you can and then after most of primary...

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone ever tried to use the distilled or co2 extracted hop oils to dry hop with? I did a huge barley wine last week and used hop shots for the 60 minute bittering addition as well as at 15 minutes for some flavor and aroma. I also tried to dissolve another hop...

I've been using Avangard malt for a while now and it's a fairly good price. I use their Pale Ale, their Pilsener and their Wheat. However my efficiency has not been coming out where I want it to. I can't seem to find any information regarding what to enter into Beersmith for the potential...

Hey everyone, Our brewery uses a small 1/2" ball valve into a 3/8" barb to connect co2 tanks and oxygen tanks for oxygenation and carbonation. I am having problems finding where to buy replacement parts for this item. Does anyone know where I can buy a small 1/2" ball valve like in the...

So our mill has had an absolute ton of grain through it and it no longer pulls the grain down through to crush it. It just spins and spins and spins but the grain just sits on top, not going into the gap. I believe we have worn the knurls down on the rollers too much. Is this possible? Has...

Hey guys, I would like to being inline oxygenating my small batches of beer. Currently we have an oxygen tank that we hook a hose to with a stone on the end. We drop the stone in the fermenter an oxygenate away. I would rather figure out a way to do it inline so we don't have to have the lid off...

Hey guys and gals, does anyone know of any good inventory and supply tracking software for brewing...or maybe not specifically for brewing but that would work for that application? I have BeerSmith and love it, but I'm not real big on their method of tracking inventory. Looking for another...

Hey everyone, I am trying to decide whether I should continue running a sanitization cycle on my Brew Magic before I brew on it. I bought the system used and it came with instructions from a long time ago, back when they were still suggesting to do a protein rest all of the time. Anyways it says...

I've been using the K97 strain of dried German ale yeast to make a Kolsch, and the past few batches have had a sulphur aroma that doesn't seem to go away. Does anyone have any experience with this? What could the possible reasons for the sulphur aroma be? It doesn't seem to produce much flavor...

So I have a fairly unique situation when it comes to rehydrating my yeast. My city water is chlorinated, so we have a charcoal filter that does a great job of filtering that out. The only problem is my only filtered water source is not heated, so it comes out at water temperature the ground...

Anybody on here use the Sabco carb wand with their carb stone to carbonate beer in a Sabco fermenter/brite tank. I love them, but one thing that is a giant pain in the arse is getting the co2 hose off the barb of the carb wand every time. We're using metal clamps to tighten the hose, and...

Hey guys, We purchased a used Sabco Brew Magic and it worked great for a few brews, then we started having problems. Went back and forth with Sabco and ended up replacing the heating element and the thermocoupler. When that didn't fix it we replaced the relay on Sabco's advice, and that...

New Sabco user here and I love it so far, but have a few questions. One thing that was slightly different was the instructions telling you to fill your mash tun up to the false bottom, then add your grain, then let the water fill the rest of the way until it's an inch over the grain bed. This...

Hey guys, I've got a custom built horizontal brew stand with 3 BG-14's. I am interested in converting these to natural gas that is ran throughout our city so I no longer have to deal with propane tanks. An employee of the natural gas company told me I should only need new orifices, does anyone...

So we're in the process of completing our new horizontal rig. We just purchased a Blichmann HopRocket and Therminator plate chiller. We have not yet purchased a trub/hop filter. From what I've read, you need to do a whirlpool to effectively use Blichmann's HopBlocker. I've considered this...

My last few brews my runnings ended up below 1.008 in order for me to collect enough volume. The beers have all turned out good and my efficiency has been good as well, so I'm not too worried about it. I am curious though, as everything I've read said to stop collecting the runnings once it hit...