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Hi. I am a longtime member of HomebrewTalk and the owner of a Micro Homebrew, a local homebrew supply shop north of Seattle. I am running for a spot on the American Homebrewers Association Governing Committee. Homebrewing and the brewing community has become a big part of my life over the last...

I know this should obvious to me but I am just not getting it. If I enter the information into a carbonation calculator for 5 gallons it says I need 17psi. If I do everything the same but for 2 gallons it says 27psi. Why? Seems like under the same pressure the liquid would take on the same...

I know this is only going to be relevant for a small few of you. If it's not, thanks for your patience. We are having a Big Brew May 3rd at my homebrew supply shop in Kenmore. We would love for any of you that would like to come on down with your equipment and brew up a batch with other...

May 3rd is the American Homebrewers Association Big Brew. I am trying to get a few people to bring their equipment and brew some beer at my homebrew supply shop in Kenmore that day. Please let me know if you are interested and I will get you the details.

Does anyone out there use a Blichmann Boilermaker and the false bottom as a direct fired mash tun? I don't want to start using pumps or recirculating but I would like to be able to heat the mash from time to time and I thought it might be pretty easy to do that way.

I am storing a couple of kegs in my cellar which is 55 degrees. I have them set at 17psi for 2.25 volumes according to the chart. When I move them to the Kegarator at 35 degrees do I let it get cold then bleed off the pressure and set to the 9 psi I the chart says?

I have an opportunity to lease a perfect space for a homebrew supply shop. I am comfortable with everything I will need to do to get it going except for where to buy the product. Are there homebrew supply shop wholesalers? Does anyone here run a shop and can point me in the right direction...

I have a refridgerator at home that I have installed 4 taps in. It works great. I am about to take to kegs to a party for the first time. I will just be keeping them in a tub with ice and serving with picnic taps. What kind of problems will I have? Will I have foaming issues? What can I do to...

I am looking for a good 2 tap jockey box. I am in the Seattle area but don't mind driving a couple hundred miles for the right one. Thanks.

I am going to brew the Burton Ale recipe I found in a Zymurgy magazine. The instructions say to adjust your waters calcium to 180-220 using calcium sulfate. I need to add 2 grams per gallon to achieve this according to Bru'n water. I am still having a little trouble understanding the water...

I have a 5 gallon batch of American IPA and a 5 gallon batch of a Black IPA. They have been in kegs and under pressure for two weeks in my beer room that I keep at 51*. I want to enter them in a contest coming up and am going to dry hop them with 2oz of pellet hops each, directly in the keg...

This is probably old news for everyone but I didn't see it mentioned before. I fermented my last two beers in a bottling bucket. When it was time to keg I just put a sanitize hose on the spigot and ran it all into the keg in 2 minutes. If you are already doing this, I feel dumb. If your not...

I am 25 minutes into a 90 minute mash. I undershot my temperature by 2 degrees and the mash was thicker than I thought it should be. You guessed it, I goofed making doing the math from quarts to gallons and ended up 150 instead of 152. Put the other gallon in now to raise the temperature some...

I made a Irish Death clone that I will be kegging this weekend. I ended up with about 5.5 gallons so it won't all fit in the keg. I was thinking I would put half a gallon in a growler, throw about 3 or 4 carb drops, a few toasted oak chips and maybe a vanilla bean and see what happens. 1. If...

I have been brewing for about a year and a half. I would like to get into a homebrew club to have some people to brew with and to get some feedback on my beer. I live near Mukilteo and there are a number of good clubs around (GEBL, BREW ect.) but they all are pretty big. I would like something...

I am sure this has been explained before but I can't seem to find exactly what I am looking for. I keg my beer and put it in the kegerator with the pressure set at 12psi and leave it alone. This works great and it comes out carbonated the way I want after a week or two. Now I have built and...

I learned from NHC that not everyone can taste diacetyl in lower concentrations. I think I am one of those people because I wasn't getting if from a sample that was supposed to have some. Is there a way for me to know if my beer has excess diacetyl? I have a Oktoberfest lager that I made for...

I am going to try the Saflager S23 yeast for my Oktoberfest tomorrow. I read the instructions on the Fermentis website and it says to rehydrate at 73*. No problem there. My question is do I pitch it into the 52* wort or do I cool the rehydrated yeast down to the 50's before I pitch it?

Cold crash an Hefeweizen or not?

I have a tankless hot water heater that has a flush kit on the bottom. I can hook a hose from my charcoal filter to the cold side and get filtered 140* water out of the hot side. The problem is, how do I get it to the HLT? My RV hose can't handle the temperature. I found a hose at the local...