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I'm preparing for an Imperial Stout tasting party I'm organizing for next weekend where I'll be doing a blind tasting of 6 Imperial Stouts including 2 of my own brewed with the same recipe except I aged one of them with oak infusion spirals. 2 of the commercial brews are Great Divide's Yeti, one...

I don't see brown malt in too many recipes but I absolutely love it in my Brown Porter. It gives such a unique and terrific flavor. I can't help the temptation to drag out the "underrated" moniker. Anybody else have any love for some Brown Malt?

It's an insanely beautiful day here in the Northeast and I've got 2 batches mashing at their target temperatures (well, maybe a degree or 2 low but what's the point of letting that get to you on a day like today?) and I just kegged 2 very fine imperial stouts to prepare for winter. They were...

Anyone have any experience with these Poly-fermenter buckets? http://www.eckraus.com/6-gallon-poly-fermenter-complete.html They look like the perfect fermenter for me right now. I've been using glass carboys with the occasional bucket when I've got all my carboys full. I carry them up and down...

I've had some trouble with a couple of my keg poppets (they're a weak design) and I want to replace all of my poppets with new universal ones which I've heard great things about. I'm going to upgrade the O-Rings to silicone as well which is what I rock on all of my posts. In shopping for the...

I made this a little while ago to pass along to my Father for wiring his Ranco temperature controller. There are several very good tutorials out there that get into more details, but this just boils it all down. The instructions that come with the temperature controller are essentially...

I'm contemplating my first sour brew and would like to primary with a yeast or yeast blend and then pitch some bugs and or Brett when I keg. This seems like a simple approach and a good way to isolate the bugs from all of my equipment except the kegs, beer lines, and taps. It also seems like a...

I sit sipping a hefty glass of Avery White Rascal by the San Diego bay, it's not quite noon but it is where I hail from and I'm contemplating my next brew. I'm looking for a spicy rustic brew that crosses somewhere between a bier de garde, tripel, and whit... I think. I'm not a fan of the...

I just ordered one of these bad boys to augment my existing kettle for side by side batches: http://www.webstaurantstore.com/32-qt-heavy-duty-stainless-steel-stockpot-with-cover/922SSPOT35.html Sweet Jebus, this thing is pretty beefy. It's about 4x heavier than my existing stainless stock pot...

I've seriously up'd my game this summer, going all-grain, getting in on the local grain buys (shout out to CidahMastah on that one!), and moving to kegs. The increased quality and quantity of my beer caught the eye of my family who now plan on consuming as much of my homebrew as possible -- my...

I'm new to kegging and have been using picnic taps so far. Last night I setup my first 2 real faucets, a stainless stout faucet and perlick 525SS. Things were a bit rocky as my perlick shot beer onto the floor when I first charged my keg-- it seems to only close when the handle is pushed 45...

I'm pretty much a kegging noob and am currently using picnic taps inside of my keezer until I prepare my beer cave properly. I'm also designing a second system for elsewhere. I have 2 questions... 1) Last night, I was nearing the end of my first keg and when I returned for a second pint, the...

I've got a GE chest freezer and was thinking about saving the hassle of making a collar for my tap lines to run through and wanted to drill a 3 in hole in the side to connect a conduit tube to... Is it safe to drill through any of the sides or are there coils on all of the walls? Any advice or...

It was real hot this weekend when I brewed and when I mashed in my temperature stabilized 3-4 degrees higher than my target. Would I have been better off mixing in cool water to dial the temperature in or is maintaining the mash thickness more important? I ended up opening my cooler and...

I kegged a batch out of one of my glass carboys last night, dumped the cake out, and filled that bad boy with OxyClean then flipped it upside down in a bucket. This morning it's sparkling, no krausen ring, and ready for my new batch. I used to scrub the bejesus out of those things to get that...

I could use some help in designing a 2 tap system. I convinced my Dad he needs a keezer at our lake house. He's obsessed with Guinness so I sold the concept with the promise of smooth creamy Guinness clones. All he cares about (and really wants to pay for) is the stout tap but I want a second...

I done did it! My first all grain batch is bubbling happily in my carboy. I used an Igloo Ice Cube Cooler MLT and the first bit of grains from the Syracuse group grain buy on here.:rockin: My efficiency was a bit low (66%) but I think I'll easily be able to tune that in. The cooler worked...

I just snapped (another) end off of one of my shoots. My hops are doing great this year but I keep being over aggressively training the bines around my deck and awning... Those things are much more rigid then they seem. Hopefully I've learned my lesson and my hops forgive me.

I'm fermenting, well not any more, my first quad and it didn't hit my target FG despite the high temps I maintained and the second pitch at mid krausen... It settled at 1.026. Should I be worried about bottle bombs and is there a certain FG that is always a danger? For full disclosure, this was...

I'm planning on making my own candi sugar by cooking white sugar with some lemon juice for my next brew - a quad. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could determine the Lovibond value so my brew calculations can estimate my target color?