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Spring cleaning time, and the missus wants me to get rid of the stuff I don't use anymore. Apparently, she finds it unreasonable to dedicate half of our apartment's floorspace to beer gear. W.T.F., right? I'm in upper-Manhattan (Washington Heights, very close to the A-train). I'll hold things...

Okay. So here's the thing. The universe has somehow conspired to make the lyrics to Vanilla Ice's 1990 hit "Ice Ice Baby" important to my professional life. I'm not proud of it, but there it is. The trouble is, I can't figure out one of the lyrics. Specifically: Jumped in my car / Slammed on...

Yeast immobilization is the weirdest brewing technology I've ever stumbled upon. The idea is to suspend living yeast cells in a semi-permeable solid, producing "beads" with the mystical ability to turn wort into beer. The advantages are obvious: if you start with a few hundred macroscopic...

I like bottling. I tend to keep several dozen different kinds of beer on hand, and a kegerator of any size would need to pay rent if it wanted to live in my very small New York City apartment. The only part of bottling that I find at all time consuming or tedious is washing the bottles. No...

Hello, I've been gradually automating my fermentation chamber, particularly the mechanisms I use for pressurized fermentation. I use a mass flow controller to gently bleed pressure off of my fermentor in response to measurements from an in-line transducer. I use the PID library on an Arduino...

Hello everyone, Is there an easy and surefire way to reset the integral wind-up on an Auber 2362? I've got a switch between my SSR and my element, and of course anytime I've got the thing off for more than a moment the PID winds up and overshoots when I turn it back on. I'm looking for the...

Hello, I'm looking to make a sealable junction box for a heating element, and part of that involves getting a nice, clean 1.25" punch made in a blank steel cover plate. (See description here: http://theelectricbrewery.com/heating-elements?page=3). I suppose I could buy the punch myself, but...

I ferment my beers in a pressurized corny keg, as described in WortMonger's thread. This kind of set up seems to offer a particularly efficient way of oxygenating. After I fill the corny and close it up, I can hook up my O2 welding can to one of the posts of my keg and let the thing pressurize...

Hey, new forum! Let me start it off by saying that I had a great experience buying from brewhardware.com. I ordered their combination sight-glass and thermometer and had it in my hands in just a couple of days. The installation guide videos are also top notch.

Hi all, I've got a $150 Brooklyn Brew Shop gift certificate that I don't want. I hear their 5gal all grain kits are pretty tasty, but I don't use kits. Make me an offer if you'd be able to use it. -MalFet

Hey folks, I'm trying my hand at a wine kit. I'm reasonably competent with the beer stuff, but don't know much beyond what I've read here on wine making. With many of the beer kits, it seems like the best advice is to throw the instructions away. What should I do differently (if anything)...

My brother-in-law just bought an old house in Cleveland, Ohio. While looking through some old pictures, he was delighted to discover that it was briefly the site of a commercial beer garden in the years following prohibition. His plan is to host an annual party to commemorate it, and I'd like to...

Hello hello, I am in the process of gearing up to do some frozen yeast banking and -- thanks to the kind work of FlyGuy, Kaiser, and many others -- I've put together a procedure I feel comfortable with. The conventional wisdom seems to be that using glycerin as a cryoprotectant in a ~25%...