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I've read my water report and I get it.... except for alkalinity. It says the alkalinity is 210 mg/L. I keep trying to read about alkalinity but I just get confused. What does this mean?

Hi all. Yesterday I brewed an AHS Coffee Sout and pitched white labs London ale yeast at 75°. I put it in a cooler room in my basement, hoping to ferment at the lower temp range for the yeast, which said 66-71. I checked today and the thermostrip says it's 61°. There is no activity from the...

I use a kegging system and just did a summer blonde. It turned out awesome and I was thinking of taking it on vacation. We are traveling from Illinois to Outer Banks North Carolina. The beer would go from cold to warm for probably 30-36 hours and travel in a car. I currently use 2 liter...

I just recently started kegging. I found I had a keg in my keezer with a leaky post. While putting on a different post tonight, which fixed it, I made an embarrassing mistake. I released the pressure and changed the lid seal and left the out post loose. Well, of course I turned the gas on to...

I looked at the forums, but never found one that applied to my situation. I hooked up my keg tonight and immediately had a leak from the "collar" for lack of a better term on my liquid out disconnect. I tried tightening the top, like some posts suggested, but no luck. What should I do?

I have been extract brewing for two years now. My last 3 or 4 brews have turned out really good. So I wanted to step it up. Built a keezer. Works awesome. Then I wanted to do full volume boils. And here my troubles began. My first full volume was a pumpkin ale. It turned out thin with a...

I normally just hang out in the forums and read as much as I can. And it was from this forum that I learned how to build my own keezer. So I figured I would show my keezer build and hopefully it helps someone else out, much like all of you guys have helped me. I started with a 7.2 cu. ft...