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So about 18 months ago I build my keezer from a GE chest freezer. I attached a collar with 2x4 red oak. Since then, i have been trying to come up with a way to attach my drip tray (which is a 19x4 stainless steel tray) so that it looks nice and is easily removable. I don't want to drill into the...

OK HBT, I need some help, and pretty badly. I just kegged beers for the first time on Sunday. I had a full, brand new CO2 tank connected to a Governor regulator, which was going to a 4 way distributor. Two ball lock kegs which were connected to that via quick connects. Here's the setup: Now...

I need a little advice and assistance. I'm building a collar for a keezer which I'm putting together. The freezer is the GE 7.0 Cu. Ft. FCM7SHWW. I'm planning on using 2x6's for the collar. Now, I should note that while I'm handy in lots of ways around the house, woodworking isn't something I...

I have been brewing with aluminum kettles for a couple of years now, and I really like them. The price was great and I've had zero issues with them. These days I'm trying to come up with anything that will make my brew day a little faster and easier on my body, while also improving the beer. One...

So next weekend I'm planning on brewing a stout with my brother-in-law who is just starting to get into brewing. He's done a couple of batches with me before and he has enjoyed it and now wants to get more adventurous. He's a big stout fan, and mentioned that he had picked up some oak spirals...

I put together a recipe for brewing an IPA this weekend. I plugged it into Beersmith, as I'm wont to do, and check the recommended numbers for my mash and the sparging. Lo and behold, for a 5.25-gallon batch, it's saying I'm going to need 11.75 gallons of water. I know that I'll lose some water...

So I was brewing an american wheat yesterday. I plugged my recipe into Beersmith as I'm wont to do, and it spit back out some numbers in terms of temp and volume of water for my mash. Around 3 gallons for my grain bill on the mash, at 160, to get an actual mashing temp of 148. So that's what I...

I brewed yesterday and put around 15 pounds through my barley crusher mill. However, at the end, I noticed that some of it wasn't really milling, and lo and behold, after a hot second of looking, I saw that the rubber banding between the two mill stones had broken. The result was it would send...

I picked up a packet of Wyeast 1272 back in January, anticipating that I would be brewing with it shortly after it arrived. It was produced on 12/28/12. It has been kept in the refrigerator since arrival, but because of life happening, I haven't had a chance to brew the beer I meant to. Now, I...

So after getting some advice here on setting my barley crusher (which was great and appreciated) I found myself with another dilemma. The drill which I had gotten specifically to run it wouldn't turn it. This is the drill I had purchased and which I now need to replace after a lot of hand...

So I'm hoping to brew up an apricot wheat. Here is the grain and hop bill on it: 4# Wheat malt 3# 2-row 1# Vienna 4 oz. Crystal 40 8 oz. Rice hulls 1 oz. Saaz - 60 minute .5 oz. Saaz - 30 minute Wyeast 1010 75 min mash at 150 Now, here's the thing. I'm looking to give this a nice...

I just got my mostly new Barley Crusher back and put together. I'm planning on brewing this weekend. Right now I assume it's set to the default crush, which I believe is .039. I was thinking of adjusting that down a bit, but how far should I go? I use a stainless steel false bottom in mash tun...

So I'm getting a bunch of Pilsner malt that was too good to pass up in a group buy (around 27 lbs. worth). However, I do not have the capability to lager things. What would be the best choices for yeasts for something like this. I was thinking a California Common yeast strain, like the WLP001 or...

My wife got me a barley crusher for Christmas last year. When I first tried to use it, I couldn't get anything at all to push through it. Seeing as it had a lifetime warranty, I sent the whole thing back and asked for a replacement. I didn't realize they had only wanted the actually mills...

So my wonderful new wife, when cleaning the basement last week, decided to (completely on accident I'm told) toss the stir bar for my stir plate in the trash. I'm hoping to brew this weekend for the first time this year (been kind of busy with getting married) and am looking to get a new one...

OK, so I've taken on a gargantuan task, agreeing to provide a minimum of 500 bottles of homebrew for some friends of mine at their wedding. What I was planning on doing was brewing it up in 10 gallon batches, rather than my more typical 5, and then splitting it between two different 5 gallon...

So SWMBO is getting me a grain mill for Christmas. I can pretty much get what I want, within a budget of around $150-$200. As I've moved to AG brewing this year, I figured it made the most sense as my next purchase, so I can start getting my base grains in bulk and save some money. I've...

I need a bit of help coming up with a recipe. I've looked through the database and I'm just not sure if anything that I found there will work. Let me explain my conundrum briefly: Some very good friends of ours are having their first baby in mid-February. The husband is English and they...

Interesting things happening in Illinois today: http://www.suntimes.com/business/13193144-418/budweiser-battle-with-state-officials-could-come-to-a-head.html New craft brew laws here could actually seriously hurt InBev or it could cripple craft brewing distribution here. I'll see if the...

So I'm hoping to move from extract and partial mash to all-grain brewing by the end of the summer. The one big hold up is making a mash tun. I don't want to just buy one, because for one, I feel like they are way too expensive to simply purchase, and second, well, it seems like it could be a...