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I washed and jarred up about 6 mason jars of yeast back in November and kept it in the fridge. Still good for a yeast starter? It was White Labs 0005...

I scored a keg today from a friend that I'll be able to use with my kegerator. Pretty sweet, right? Wrong. He had it outside for about a year is about 1/5 filled with beer that's just as old. I pulled out the dip tube and it was all crusty. Took are of that with an SOS pad. The inside of the...

Leaving MA today (Medfield area) and I want to grab some brews to bring back to ME... But what do I get?? Any store suggestions?

I started some 0575 on my stir plate at around 2:00pm yesterday to use today. It's going crazy, and I was thinking of putting it in the fridge at around noon today... Is that too early??

I've been cruising the threads looking for some specs of a parts list for a hop spider with no luck... Anybody able to help me out with that? Thanks in advance, cheers!

So I have everything I need... box, fan, power switch, power supply , and potentiometer. J have looked and so many diagrams and can't figure out how to wire this thing! I am a visual guy and need pictures. My fan has a red and white wire together going to a harness that has a red, yellow and...

I have an extra rheostat from a light dimmer I was going to install. Think that could work on my stir plate to control the fan??

I have recently come across some very old dark LME that a co-worker ga e me. Not sure how old exactly but for some reason it was stored in a plastic bag and is completely solid! I was thinking of setting up a double boiler to possibly turn it back into a liquid state to avoid any scorching. Any...

I recently watched a few Brewing TV episodes (awesome, BTW!) and noticed that when ever they used Star-San, they didn't rinse anything after... Can you do the same with Oxyclean? Have I been wasting my time??

Getting ready to dry hop my IPA today and I wanted to do it right in the keg. I searched around for some tips and they're all great but my problem is I have a commercial keg with a sanke coupler. The opening is a lot smaller than a corny keg so I'm not sure how I'm going to keg the hops in or...

I am thinking of using a bunch of hops that I have sitting in the freezer for a batch tomorrow... I have Mt. Hood, Sterling, Tettnang and Golding. All between 4.2% and 5.6%. I want to use all of them just for the hell of it! Bad idea? What kind of aromas and taste will I get? We'll see!!:mug:

I have used Splenda to sweeten my cider after fermentation is completely done to avoid over carbonation in my bottles and had great success... Anybody else try this out?

Seems to be a lot of topics about this! Kind of overwhelming... I was just curious about using the bag in my water cooler-style mashtun for my AG instead of right in my SS pot that I use for the boil, and then transferring the wort to the SS pot. Anybody done this?

I recently acquired a fairly large chunk of DME that belonged to a co-worker's ex. I am assuming some humidity cause it all to stick together and then dry out. Is this still ok to use, since it will probably just dissolve in hot water anyway? There was also a couple of containers of LME that had...

Hey! My name is Chris and I live in South Portland, ME. I've been brewing since '04 (AG since '07) although with the purchase of a new house just over a year ago I haven't done much i the past year! Finally completing some projects and ready to get the brewery set up in the basement! Time to get...