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hey, here is a link to my fermenter on craigslist. I made it from a european sanke with the sanke fitting from brewer's hardware. great fermenter, have done two amazing batches in it. http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/hsh/1795552134.html here is the link to the igloo with the false...

So I just filled my fermenter up with a Basil Rye Amber. 6 lbs Two row 2 lbs Munich 2.5 lbs Rye Malt 8 oz Crystal 60 8 oz Biscuit 6 oz Roasted Barley 8 oz Dextrose Simple single infusion mash at 151 for a quick and dirty 7 gallon batch. .5 oz Magnum for 60...

I had a friend gift me a 30L Heineken sanke keg and I cannot figure out how to get the spear out. the "slinky" clip shown in all of the tutorials i've looked at doesn't appear to be there. I have reason to believe that it may be a different spear design? european sanke? maybe? Any input is...

just got a digital camera for the holidays:rockin: here are some pics of the pellicle on my currant/strawberry lambic.

I brewed the AHS coffee malt stout kit yesterday. Hit it with amazing efficiency and ended up higher than the 1.052 the kit claims. I came in around 1.062. My mash tun is a converted keg and when I woke up this morning I started doing clean up. I put my old 3 gallon brew pot underneath of it...

So I'm due to bottle three batches (10 gallon and two five gallon) in the coming weeks and have no spare bottles as they are all full in my closet:ban: it is a very bittersweet problem. I called the local waste company's recycling number and inquired about buying a lot of bottles. they said...

I have Yuri's thunderstruck in primary right now with wlp013 London Ale. It has reached attenuation and I am looking to transfer to secondary soon (week or so) to get it off all of that pumpkin trub. Since the london ale yeast is low flocculating can I cold crash the primary, transfer to...

I usually order from morebeer because of the cheap prices and free shipping that only takes two days from concord to here. I decided these last two batches (berlinner-weisse and thunderstruck) that I'd place an order with AHS. I like that they combine grains into one bag, ground together. I...

Last night I started flyangler's spurhund zunge and pitched a white labs lactobaccilus d at 120 degrees. Should the bucket have an airlock on it? does lacto show visual signs, like a krausen of some sort? I want it to be on the puckering side of sour, I'm thinking like 48 hours or so before I...

I am going to brew the Thunderstruck all grain batch this weekend and have some amylase that I picked up with my grain bill. My thinking at the time was that some extra amylase in the mash could help convert the starches from the pumpkin. my thinking at the time was that that is an aweful lot...

Hello HBT think-tank. I just bottled ten gallons of a heavily hopped american amber. It got 8 ounces dry hopped and smells/tastes great. It is my understanding that some of that delicious aroma does disappear after bottling. Is it possible to quantify the loss of aroma? How long before it...

I have been searching the amazing internet for the lagunitas cappuccino stout recipe from the September 2005 BYO. If anyone has this recipe, or this issue, and wouldn't mind sharing, it would be much appreciated. a link to a site that has it works too. I am looking for that specific recipe...

I have my 5 gallon batch in a rubbermaid container that i rotate 1/2 gallon frozen jugs into. I have had pretty good luck with this, maintaining 66-68 according to a floating thermometer, but My water gets cloudy looking in three days or so and it takes me a day after I change it to get it back...

what pitching temp should I use for orval dregs? pitch before, after, with, or without neutral ale yeast?

Hello, I am working on a sour mash beer right now. It is a one gallon experimental batch that I am attempting to sour with 1/2 lb of milled two row. Any advice on how long to do this for? what are visible signs of lacto infection? I plan on souring it for ____ (not sure how long even), then...

So I step outside (2 am) after cleanup from a long, messy brew day and sure enough I saw an abandoned rotten smelling minifridge. it is a pretty ancient kenmore 4.6cu model. It cleaned well with oxyclean. It is a bit noisy but still gets very cold. it doesn't allow for a bucket or carboy (it...

So...I searched and didn't come up with anything for this, so here goes (I hope this isn't taboo on this forum!)... My friend grows pot at home (legally, of course) and has two ounces or so of clippings that he wants me to incorporate into an ale. I was thinking a simple pale ale or amber...

I'm working on a hop head read-ish clone right now. its getting two rounds of dry hops. question is can i just dry hop in primary once yeast has flocculated and final gravity is achieved, or should i take it off of the cake, to a secondary, to dry hop. thanks note: i've always gone to...

So I found this recipe below... I like the idea Sourdough Beer Classification: sourdough, extract Source: John Carl Brown, ([email protected]), rec.crafts.brewing, 5/21/92 Very cloudy beer, aroma has a tinge of sour. I'm not really sure how it tastes, kind of like beer kind of...

So I just bought two 22's of the alesmith ipa. while enjoying my libations i noticed that they have yeast on the bottom and the painted on label (damn painted on labels!) boasts having "brewers yeast" inside. On a whim (yes i have a good buzz going) I made a 1/2 gallon starter in a gallon...