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No sparge, recirculating BIAB.

After looking at the blingy tri clamp sight glasses that are going for $80, I thought I could build one that uses 1/2" NPT for a lot cheaper. I made this assembly in google sketchup from parts off of McMaster-Carr to see how it would look and fit together: The model can be downloaded from...

I found this in my stepdads garage, he's a welder/fabricator and he said his mentor built this years ago. I'd never seen this configuration, so I thought I'd share some pics with you guys, the welds look really nice and the inside is a lot smoother than the pics make it look. Wonder what it...

What can I say, after a "1 pint 6 oz" bottle (over the course of the evening), my opinion is biased. I'm pairing it with a loaf of fresh home baked whole wheat bread with sweet cream butter and honey. I'm the closest to heaven that I've ever been. I've never had a barley wine quite like this...

Excuse my ignorance, this is my second lager and I didn't do the first one correctly either. I brewed a Munich Dunkel that had an OG of 1.047 I pitched a 1L starter of healthy active yeast (probably underpitched) It fermented steadily for a LONG time, the airlock bubbled slowly for almost a...

I bought a 55 lb sack of each of these right before I brewed my Munich Dunkel and since then I've been burning through the pale malt a lot faster than these two. I'd like if you kind folk could make some suggestions on beer styles that utilize these two base malts heavily or link to recipes...

Help me understand what goes on with fermenting yeast. We pitch a certain number of yeast cells to perform the fermentation. How rapidly do the yeast reproduce? How long do the yeast live? I hear about "fresh" yeast and "exhausted and stressed" yeast, if the life cycle is short and they are...

A buddy of mine doesn't drink alcohol, but is interested in brewing, so he made a root beer. He really likes the idea of making something from scratch and the root beer extract and sugar wasn't doing it for him. We got to talking about making a soda from barley malt and adding natural flavoring...

I live in a very small house with a small fridge, but I won't let that stop me from having beer on draught. My only gripe is that it's hard to read the gauge and the CO2 doesn't last as long as I'd like. Can't really force carb, but I can maintain even pressure manually as I serve.

Not mine, found on Craigslist. http://eugene.craigslist.org/for/1958367055.html Cheaper than a 10 gallon brewpot!

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I was wondering if it would be feasible to fill a cream whipper with carbonated beer, then charge it with nitrogen and dispense into your pint glass simulating a nitro tap. Thoughts?

http://www.patsbcb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=18 So apparently they are trying to market a beer concentrate for backpackers. You pour the syrup into a nalgene bottle, add water, then using a carbonator cap for the nalgene bottle, hit it with CO2 to make...

Saw this on Jalopnik, thought you guys might appreciate it. http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4889441-Bar-is-open! Sorry if it's a repost.

Trying to design a heatstick that is all metal, water tight and able to be disassembled for maintenance. I modeled this then realized tri-clamps would be cheaper/easier/simpler, so I'm working on the tri-clamp version.

I had a disastrously stuck sparge last weekend on a coffee porter that called for a couple pounds of black patent. My partner milled it, and used the same setting as the lighter malt, but the black patent was pulverized into a fine powder. I realize I should have recognized right away when I saw...

I recently brewed a stout that I thought was pretty fantastic (I usually think both myself and my brews are pretty fantastic :ban:). I decided it stacked up pretty well against commercial brews, so I bought a Samuel Smith's oatmeal stout and a Deschutes Obsidian stout to do a blind taste test...

Question: Is it legal to trade your homebrew for goods/services? Is there a lawyer in the house?

Started building my 10 gallon system for as absolutely cheap as I could make it. Let me know what you think. Here's a few pics of the kegs and the angle grinder jig I made. Drilling the holes with step bits is a PAIN in the ASS. Don't get a cheap step bit, this one lasted...

I bought the wife a 6 gallon wine kit, and it says I need an 8 gallon fermentor for primary. I have several 5 gallon glass carboys, could I just split all the ingredients in half and divide it into two carboys, then mix them when the volume is low enough for my 6.5 gallon carboy, or will that...