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I've read a few how to's on making kombucha and they all Say to make a SCOBY first. So I took their advice and I have 7 cups of tea with 1 cup of combucha and the bany SCOBY that was in the bottle of store bought combucha. In a couple/ few weeks I should have a nice big SCOBY. I took a look...

St Arnold Bishops barrel 12 was released Monday here in Houston, the same day my daughter was born. Now that I can search for them they are all gone. I want one (or a few) to put away for my daughter's birthday celebrations in the future. If you have one or can get me one let me know and We...

I am using a mini fridge to age my better beers. It uses wire shelves that are flimsy. Twice now I have overloaded the shelf and had beer come crashing down when I open the door (luckily they were my least prized beers that busted). Has anyone replaced their wire shelving in their mini...

So my carboy blew it's top for the 2nd time ever... It was open for at most a day. The beer is an oude bruin so I'm wondering if this really hurt anything. I wasn't planning on using actual wild yeast, but since it's a sour did it really hurt anything? As an aside I left the sample of wort...

Perhaps people here can point me in the right direction. I have a pretty decent collection of new beers that I am aging myself. I would like to try some vintage beers like Thomas Hardy's and JW Lees. I am up to trade but it's hard to even find anyone with one to trade. There are 1 or 2...

So I am wondering if anyone can tell me why my STC1000 is throwing the breaker. I wired it up using a video I found on here so I believe that part is right. It is the 110V STC1000 with 2 single that are 110V. I am using this freezer...

So I have 1 brew kettle that has gotten me along for a couple of years now. I want to add a weldless spigot to it. My question is can once I make the conversion can I still boil in it? I know the rubber gaskets are at least good enough for mash temps, but would boiling be too hot for them?

So for a whopping $2 I bought a spigot to attach to my ale pail. The store said to use a 1" drill bit. I have a 1-1/8" at home but no 1" bit. Would that extra 1/8" make it leak? On the one hand I don't want to go buy another bit, but I also don't want to screw up the first time and end up...

So I have read several threads on mini fridge modification and I still have a couple of questions. First, all the ones I have looked at in the stores have the little freezer section. In pictures on the forum it looks like people removed them or unscrewed the plate and flipped it over. I...

I have lots of questions, but they all are dependant on my first question. Allow me to explain myself. My wife is pregnant and I decided to make a brew in honor of our kid! Then my thought went one step further thinking maybe I could do a barleywine that could condition until my kid is at...

This frustrates me especially because I haven't seen any other people on the internet with problems. After I built it I tried it out with no fermenter inside and it dropped to 65 really quick so I was excited. Now that I have beer in there it won't get below 75 (almost room temp, which we...

Well I brewed my first 5 gallon batch today and it went all right. It is a Belgian wit mixed grain kit I got from the local store. I have been doing 1 gallon Brooklyn Brew reicpes for almost 2 years, so the grain mashing was not bad. It was the first time I have ever used the wort in a bag...

This is my first post. I have made several batches of pre-measured ingredient kits over the last year and a half and I have decided it is time to start branching out and get creative. My question is about the effects of lemon or lime juice on yeast. In the past I made a grapefruit ale by...