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For the five years I’ve been brewing, I’ve used a small igloo cooler to do mini matches. Discovered the other day that the oven in this house we’ve moved to can be set as low as 105. Which means I can hit mash temps in an oven. This leads to several questions, then. 1) Does it make sense to...

Out of curiosity, where do you fine people keep your excess star San? I figured that I could keep a bottling bucket filled with it, and just fill up a spray bottle from the tap when needed, but the plastic valve on the bottling bucket cracked and I wound up with a really sanitary garage floor...

Sister-In-law did a nice thing and bought me a Brooklyn brew shop Afternoon Wheat beer kit (just the refill - grains, hops, & yeast.). There's no date code on much of anything that I can see except for the yeast, which has 2016 05 on it. The box was apparently on sale at bed, bath, and beyond...

Hey, all. Didn't see a link to this, so here goes.... Cask & Kettle Homebrew, Poor Henry's Pub & Restaurant, and Final Gravity Podcast have organized the 2nd annual Tri-State Homebrew Fest this weekend (June 1/ Raindate: June 2) from 12:00-4PM. It will take place at Poor Henry's in Montville...

Looking at setting up a kegging system... the line cutters at Brewmasters Warehouse look like cigar cutters. I quit smoking cigars a while back but still have a cutter or 2 around; any reason not to use those instead of dropping $15?

I have 5 gals of Northern Brewer's dark cherry stout in primary now bubbling away madly. :) It is brewed like a normal stout, and then they send you a 4.8 ounce bottle of cherry extract to add at bottling. All well and good, however, the recipe just says to add the extract to taste. Not having...