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I'm building a brew stand around Blichmann floor burners. One of them will be automated using the typical parts - auber PID, RTD, Honeywell standing pilot valve, RV LP regulator, etc. Where can I get the correct orifice to run low pressure propane through the Blichmann burner? I contacted...

If you live along a state route in a western Pgh suburb at the top of the hill up from the on-ramp to I-79, please PM me! I'm purposely trying to be vague about the exact location, but I drive past your hops on the way home each day and would love to talk to a fellow Pgh brewer & hop grower...

What do you do when your hop bines reach the top of the trellis or, in my case, twine? My garden is set up such that the bines climb on coir yarn that is tied to the top of my shed (12-14' high). This picture was taken 10 days ago. The leftmost bines in that picture (Spalt Select) have...

What's the most priming sugar you have ever used per gallon when bottling? If you're trying to go for style-appropriate carbonation levels, you might need to use 1.25 oz. or more of table sugar per gallon of beer to reach ~3.5 volumes. Have you ever used this much priming sugar? How did it...

I recently built a fermentation chamber from a chest freezer. I posted about it here. I have my first beer fermenting in it now. I'm finding that the temperature reading on the Love TSS2-2100 might not be quite right. For instance, the controller is reading 65.8F, but the stick-on LCD...

As I attempt to transition from occasional brewer of OK beer to serious brewer of good beer, one of the first things I need to do is get fermentation temperature under control. To that end, I've built a chest-freezer-based fermentation chamber. The design is based on many of the keezers I've...

Hi. I brew beer. One day I hope to brew good beer. I've actually been brewing for a little over eight years now, but only recently have I decided to become serious about it and try to make the best beer I can. To help document my progress, I created a little blog that I'm calling "When...