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I ordered a pair of BG-14's from Agrisupply and ordered 2 regulator and hose setups. The website says the regulators are 0-15 PSI, but when I got them, there was a sticker on the red knobs that said "1-10PSI". I called Agrisupply and they were going to have someone call me back. I tried one...

I've started collecting some parts for a planned chest freezer setup. I am planning for at least 4 taps with the possibility of expansion. I will be using ball lock kegs. I currently have the following parts 15# co2 tank Double Gauge Regulator from Micromatic 4 way manifold 5/16" out...

<edit 1/18/2010> I'm mashing right now. I'll add a new post to the end of this to show what's going on</edit> Ok, Here's what I've come up with. I got the estimated gravity readings from Mosher's Brewing Techniques article 80% eff gives me a 1.063 regular batch with this grain bill...

Ok, so, Thursday night or Friday morning, I'm packing up the family and we're headed down to Disney. The wife and I did not want to make the drive without having somewhere to stop along the way (we both want to stop at some breweries). Off the top of my head, I know I want to hit Dogfish in...

I have some good, clean, harvested WLP001 that I made a 2L starter with on Friday. I fully intended to brew this morning, but it will have to wait until tomorrow morning. I'm coming to the end of my inventory from my last buy of grains, so I wanted to use some of them up. Plus, I got that...

I just got my hopsdirect shipment yesterday and I needed to divide some hops up for my Dad's order. So far 2lbs in, each were 1+ ounces over. I also just bought a foodsaver as well. I can't take credit for this, someone in chat or in a post here somewhere mentioned about doing some trickery...

<edit - I moved my updates back to my original post. I think I'm going to brew this as is, to see where I'm at and tweak it from there for future batches. Unless anyone sees any showstoppers> Here's the updated version as of right now... If I was to add sugar in this to dry it out, how...

8lbs Pale 2lb Vienna 1lb 20L As per the Malts chart, that comes to: 36*8 + 36*2 + 34*1 = 394 I collected 6.5 gallons 394/6.5 = 60.61 Does that mean my max gravity at 100% efficiency would be 1.061? Pre boil gravity was 1.054 1.061/1.054 = ~89% Beersmith is telling me that...

KegConnection and Midwest Supplies both have a basic 4 keg setup with picnic taps. I'd eventually like to go all Perlicks and maybe some secondary regulators, but in the meanwhile, I can get started and add on when I have some extra cash (hah!) I found the following kits on each site. Can...

Bobby - After spending time trying to get me keggle setup going, I decided to try doing 5 gallon batches on my stove (since I have a cooler mash tun and a 8 gallon pot from my extract days). I refer to your write up on your web page (shameless plug Overbrook Brewery) for my technique. On...

For my previous 2 melomels, I was following the SNA suggestions in a BYO article. I just did a 15lb, topped up to 6 gallons, with D47 batch the other day. I made a mixture 2:1 Nutrient:Energizer. I think based on what I remembered from the BYO article, I put 3/4 tsp of this mixture in on the...

I haven't brewed much lately and the last few I had brewed, I wasn't happy with how they came out. So, I had some hops and yeast in the fridge and wanted to use them on a quick 5 gallon extract batch. Here is the original recipe that my LHBS printed out... "Spotted Hen Ale" (English Strong...

My first melomel has had too much sediment in it. So after a few rackings, I'm down to about 3 gallons of melomel. I picked up a couple of 1 gallon glass jugs from my LHBS and I asked about airlocks. The lady said that since it's done fermenting (I did it back in August), that the included...

I've got 37.5lbs of wildflower honey left. My father wants to do a big melomel in the vein of what I've done with my 2 strawberry ones. He'd like to do something with pineapple and coconut. I have a couple of packets ofr 71b and d47 in the house and I have a free 7.9 wine pail and free 6.5...

Reading the recent BYO article on melomels, the three recipes they include there describe the process w/o heating the honey/fruit/water (other than for making a pitching temperature). This appears to be the exception, rather than the rule. What are your thoughts?

After making my first batch of melomel (ok, it's actually in a teriary.. ) I was put off with how much the honey cost from my LHBS. ($4/lb) As much as I like supporting them, I figured I could get a better deal in some capacity of bulk. I did some searching and found Stiles Apiaries in Fords...

I've been itching to try something new, so when I got my July/August BYO, I saw the Strawberry Banana Melomel recipe and decided to give it a go. Off the top of my head, the recipe is.. 22lbs wildflower honey 18lbs frozen strawberries (in the primary) 4lbs bananas (in the secondary) 3...

Below is the original recipe from BeerTools. Half of that 6oz is Amarillo (it's all the LHBS would give me). I noticed 2 things, first the IBUs are out of style for a 6B Blonde Ale. I'm not too worried, because I like the hops, but I noticed that the recipe calls for a boil duration for 1.5...

I went to to the basement to check on my stash and I seen my extract Wheat carboy had a nice white spiderweb film on top and it stinks... Anything I can do other than dump and learn?

I got this from a BeerSmith recipe link... SMPA Batch Size: 11.00 gal Boil Size: 13.69 gal Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.00 Amount Item Type % or IBU 18.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 90.00 % 1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.00 % 1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -...