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Monday is my 'clean the cabinets' day. Piecemealed the thing below to use up odds and ends. Am I going to end up with a keg of horse pee, or will this pass muster? If you experienced guys see something that isn't going to work out, please shout it out at me; drinkable beer comes before my...

Looking into doing something to cut down on the pellet and trub in my fermenter. Keep reading about hop spiders and mesh containers. Seems the issue concerning everyone is immersion chiller getting in the way and losing some utilization of hops by lost circulation. How about attacking at a...

This brew has been carbed up for couple of weeks now. All nice small foamy bubbles. Last couple days there's a lot of large bubbles in the head. Normal 10psi and co2 tanks are full. Any ideas what's causing the larger bubbles?

3.5# Pale Malt 2-row 3.5# Morris Otter 2# Vienna 1# Dark Munich .5# Biscuit Malt .25# Crystal 120L .25# Caramunich .25# Roasted Barley 1.5oz Wilamette 60min 1/2oz Challenger 15min 1/2oz Challenger 5min Washed 810 yeast Primary 4 weeks Secondary Age in Keg

First draft is below. Trying to use up some bulk grain buy 2-row, that's why no pilsner and don't have lager fridge yet. Needing some honest harsh opinions :: Will this come out as a quaffable brew for playing BlackOps2 or sewer water? BEER SMITH FILE 5 lbs Pale Ale 2row 3 lbs...

SilicaGelProducts, Amazon associate. I ordered "20 - 2,000cc OxyFree Oxygen Absorbers for Dried Dehydrated Food and Emergency Long Term Food Storage " and recieved a flimsy cell phone cover. Wow. Even if it was a mistake; I'm not at all sure it was, do you want to trust a company that...

Well, I'm off to build these things. Havent' stained the first 'test' one yet. I figure after they are stained I"ll put one of those clear baseball card pouches on the front square and print out what each beer is when I keg it. -- I did not come up with this, read about it on the net...

My regulator has a check valve and 50-55psi safety valve built on. Integral pressure relief valve for safety: Pressure Relief Valve Releases at 50-55 PSI Since it has the 50psi safety outlet, could the Co2 manifold be built out of schedule 40 PVC which has a rating of 120 to 810 psi...

I brew 5.5 gallon batches and try for 6.5 boil volume. I've only done 3 all grain brews. I batch sparge as below. 1 Add 4 gallons of 165 water and fold grain in. Mash gets to 154-155 for one hour. 2 Vorlough (however you spell that) and drain at 1/2 open. 3 Add 2 gallons of 168 water...

When I transfer the wort to the bottling bucket I put the auto syphon into a paint strainer. Been working like a charm. During the transfer this time, a lot of air got into the line and into the bottle bucket underneath the beer. Do I need to worry about oxidation over this? Really looking...

I get the older the better mead tastes. But is all the time in secondary just for clarity? How would this work out :: 3 weeks primary, 4 weeks secondary, bottle for 4+ months? Thought is if aging works as well in bottles why not free up the fermenters? Yep, I know this has to have been...

Ok, I made a batch of wine and I guess I ended up with 6.5 gallons of pure poison which needs to be dumped so I'm back to beer. :mad: Working on building an all grain system. Really just dont like the idea of work chillers. Thinking of building a wooden box big enough for the 5 gallon...

I've been working on a Estate Lodi Cabernet, my first wine attempt... About 2 1/2 weeks in I was on step 3 where you add #2 (metabisulphite) and package(s) #3 (sorbate) and #4 (chitosan or isinglass clarifier). I put in 2 ounces of potassium metabisulphite by mistake. How bad did I just...

Can you guys help me tweak a recipe? Trying to get strawberry flavor but not overpowering. 6lb Briess Gold Unhopped Liquid Malt Extract 1lb Carapils 1/2oz Centennial Hop at beginning of boil Rack on 6lb strawberries in primary for a couple weeks. Secondary 2 weeks. Bottle.

What, I started up like a month ago with no equipment at all. Equipment I've picked up :: 6500 BTU unit cooling off a home made fermenation tank 3 6.5gallon ferment buckets 3 6gallon better bottles 2 5gallon glass carboys 5 1gallon glass jugs 2 bottling buckets with spigots 24 * 8...

Juiced 10 pounds of strawberrys and put juice and pulp in 5 gallon nylon paint strainer with cup of rasins. Warmed up 12 pounds of fresh honey I got from Hummer and Son's bee keepers farm. Filled up to 6 gallons spring water. Added Mead Yeast Sweet Smack Pack and tablespoon yeast energizer...

Like most of us noobs, I read and read about each part of the brew process. I really lean to believe people who post a lot, REV and a few others for example. 2nd fermentation was one of the parts I was working on figuring out. My opinion and future brewing will include secondaries. Each and...

Put my first wine kit in the fermenter. Looking for a second and considering this .. Winexpert Selection Estate Napa Valley Stag's Leap District Merlot Wine Making Kit From most vendors I'm accustomed to it's in the $140 range (northernbrewer.com, midwestsupplies, austinhomebrew.com)...

Looking into doing a batch of wine from a kit. All the kits I see include a 7+ gallon primary fermenter. I have a 6.5 better bottle. Would that be large enough to do the primary fermentation or do I need to spend the $20 for a 7+ gallon bucket?