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Hi all, it's been awhile since I stopped brewing but I'm really missing it and would like to get into it again. The main reason why I quit was because I was just unable to finish 5 gallons of beer before the said beer started to get stale. Pouring half a corny keg down the gutter felt like a big...

I've recently got into sous vide cooking with my direct fired rims system. I can't believe I've never thought of it before because it's great I just use a false bottom to keep the bag off the bottom... It'd work better with a herms or rims tube.. but it's still awesome. Anyway, I'm thinking of...

Hello all, I am looking for high quality mesh basket/kettle combos for a BIAB system. Right now I used a keggle with a direct fire, temperature controlled system (using a honeywell water tank heater solenoid). The only one I have found so far is this...

Hi all. I brewed a 100% pilsner lager (2 oz saaz hops) with a starting gravity of 1.059 using WLP 830 (German lager yeast). Been fermenting at 50 f. That was 6 days ago (last Sunday). Gravity is at 1.020 now, but I'm not seeing any more bubbles in the airlock so I'm worried that fermentation has...

Any ideas on how to remove this extra metal from the top of my keggle? I only have an angle grinder

I don't know why this is happening, but I made this manifold out of copper pipes and for some reason the march pump craps out when I hook it up. It starts out strong, and I get a good spray coming out of the little holes I made, but then after 30 seconds it stops flowing. If I disconnect the...

I finally got around to calculating my equipment + trub loss and I figured out it’s a whopping 1.1 gallons. I have about a quart (~1 liter) loss to trub in the kettle and the rest of it seems to be lost in the counterflow chiller and tubing. Oh, and the hop absorption... (last batch had 3...

I'm so irritated right now. I've been brewing for 10 years. I started out doing the usual thing with a cooler, fill cooler with hot water, rinse twice... I did that for 5 years then switched to a DIY RIMS BIAB system. I finally got sick of shredding bags and the horribly low efficiency (I know...

https://amoretti.com/collections/craft-purees Has anyone tried using this, or other homogenized (i.e., no bits) fruit purees in their beers? I wonder if it would retain a flavor, or just ferment out to nothing? I am dreaming of a nice berliner weisse with raspberry for this summer maybe?

hey just sharing what took me almost 10 years to figure out- I finally got that real German wheatbeer flavor. Just pitched a vial of WLP300 with no starter and I didn’t add any oxygen at all. I didn’t even stir it. Crazy! Took a little longer to start but it got down to 1.012 after about a...

I saw this on eBay and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? It’s a grain mill, hopper, and motor for only $150. Detailed description http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=232786058903&category=168754&pm=1&ds=0&t=1542794859000&ver=0&cspheader=1...

I've only met a handful of dedicated home brewers in real life (versus the usual "my wife bought be a Mr Beer once" types), accidentally. For some reason, each time I try to start up a conversation with one about beer it turns into some kind of weird almost adversarial thing where the other...

So I think I've worked it out after several days of eliminating variables. It's the co2 out ball lock connection. I have a 3 way splitter manifold and I have three co2 out connections. (you know, grey ball lock connection being fed by a red co2 hose). Turns out, it leaks co2. When I pressurize...

I put in my hops at day 3, hoping to get some cool NEIPA experimentation type haze action. The plan is to keg and carb at 14-20 days depending on the flavor. However, that seems like a long time to let the hops just sit in there. I got them in a bag so I can remove them. Should I take them out...

So I just got my stuff delivered after 2 months in a shipping container (military move) and when I went to turn on my homemade temperature controller the weirdest thing happens. I press and hold S, then it shows S1, then I click and release S. It shows 2c, and I click the "up" arrow (I had it...

Has anyone ever tried to use argon gas to preserve "real ale" (UK native style) casks after they are tapped? I've always wanted to try to brew cask ale but I have never tried because I've heard they will spoil after 3-5 days and I cannot drink that much beer that fast. I was thinking of...

Does anyone know if a motorized off the shelf grain mill for the home brewer exists? Last time I checked a few years ago the only ones I could find were thousands of dollars and were designed for pros. I am tired of fudging around with my DIY setup.

Hello all, I have been kegging my beer for several years now and I always do the same thing- 3 days at 30 psi and I always get carbonated beer. 5 days ago I kegged some white wine in hopes of making sparkling wine. I did the usual thing and set to 30 psi. Well, it’s been 5 days and the wine...

Hello, I'm trying to come up with a recipe for a rye ale that really brings out the rye as the main flavor of the beer. I've had some really good rye pale ales before and it was like biting into a loaf of really good rye bread- sweet, complex, a bit spicy... this was at a big beer show in London...

Here's my problem. Let's say I have a beer that I really like upon finishing fermentation with lots of complex hop flavor, a good head, and a nice mouthfeel/body. Beer success! Unfortunately within two weeks or so of conditioning in the keg (I force carbonate so I'm drinking it for about 10...