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So after about 6 months i am very close to finishing my man cave/ brewing room. When i started working on the room all i had was sheetrock on the walls. I went with acid staining the cement for easy clean out. I went with conventional cabinets and granite in case a ever get out of brewing and...

I have been toying with the idea of making a sparkling wine. All the info i have found online suggests using a champagne yeast and bottle conditioning. I make a Strawberry/Mango wine that i think would be great as a sparkling wine. So my question is could this wine be made like normal...

So I work in the Drilling Fluids industry and work with Caustic (sodium hydroxide) and Phenolphthalein on a daily basis. I need to start checking my acid on my wines. When you ordered the test kit (they want 20buks for shipping to AK) they use .1N sodium hydroxide. So to mix my own I would use...

http://www.homewinery.com/cgi-bin/concen.cgi They look like they have a good list on conentrates to choose from. Has anyone ever odered from them, if so is the wine any good? I ask how good could wine from conentrate be? The guy on the phone told me that the Wineexpert kits are made from...

Any one every brewed with Galaxy. Just ordered a few pounds and i am thinking of a Vienna/Galaxy SMaSH. How does that sound?

These Brats turned out great. So here are some pics start to Finish. Shoot the bear!!!! Then I ground the meat. I cut all the fat off the bear, making sure not to get any in the meat. Grind all your lean bear. Buy ground pork or get a pork shoulder and grind it yourself. Mix 60% black...

Has anyone every use these adjusting gauge's on there CO2 lines. I was thinking about putting one on each of my 2 gas lines so i can keep one at serving pressure while carbing the other keg up. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y5SFHS/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Has anyone ever used a scale to get SG’s of beer while it’s fermenting? This is what I was thinking about. You could get a weight of the empty carboy and take the SG before you add the beer to the carboy. So lets say the carboy is 5 lbs and the beer is 1.050. Now you just put your carboy...

I made 10gal of Ed Worts APA hoped with all Amarillo. I picked S-05 in one and S-04 in the Others. Those 2 Yeasts are Night and Day. I mashed @ 154 for 60min and then batched sparged. The S-05 finished out fairly dry @ 1.006 but it was very clean and good. I might mash higher next...

So i just got about 8lbs of WLP002 English Ale Yeast slurry for a Mirco Brewery in my town. Have any of you guys done this, should i use Mr. Malty for the amount to pitch. Its a fairly thick slurry. What sucks is that there is no possible way i can use it all in the next 4-6 weeks. I think i...

I hate cleaning hop bag when i get finished brewing. So i said screw them who needs them anyway. I just added all my hop pellets to the boil kettle with no bag, after reading how some people do it on the board. So after a good whirlpool then i used my auto siphon with a paint strainer bag...

I have been using S-05 and S-04 alot. Rehydrate the yeast in warm water and not really knowing why i was using the warm water. This write up explains why you need to use warm water and what happens if you do not. Anyhow its good info...

I know many people have added faucets to a 3" tower but has anyone tried to add faucets to a 2 1/2" tower. I have a single tower now and want to add 1 or 2 more faucets to it. I was thinking this might work...

Has anyone else stopped doing late boil hop additions? I Normal did a 5 min or flameout hop addition. But after doing some research I found the CO2 drives off most of the Aroma of the Hops, so why do it. If I want a good Hop Aroma I will just dry hop after fermentation has slowed way down...

I have been wondering this for awhile now. When people submit a recipe, like this “Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 4 days at 68 Degrees” Are you guys talking about ambient room temp or temp of the beer? I keep my Fermentation room @62F and my beer temp is 68F or so

Well after trying to mix up my mash with a cheap plastic spoon i made this paddle. Its nothing fancy but it gets the job done.

I am looking for a new tower for my kegerator that has 2 faucets. Anyone have one PM me please.

We have a new homebrew club and have been having meeting in one of our local mirco-brewerys. We have been having great turn outs and are growing fast and running out of space. So my question is where do other clubs hold meetings. We have limited funding now so renting out some place nice is...

So, I have a 10gal cooler mash tun and am doing a 10.25 gal batch. I am using 20 lbs of grain with 1.25 qt per lbs or 6.32 gal of water to mash. Beersmith calls for 9.73 gal of water to batch sparge with. So how do you fit 9.7 gal of water with 20lbs of grain to sparge. Do you add 2...

This is for a 10.25 gal batch 12.00 lb Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 59.26 % 6.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 32.10 % 1.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 7.41 % 0.25 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 1.23 % 3.00 oz Spalter [4.50 %] (60 min) Hops 24.1...