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I have an older touch screen windows pc that I want to turn into brewery manager system. Is anyone aware of a fermentation or temperature monitor for use on a fermentation chamber with some probes or something that would work for a windows based computer? I am also looking at possible...

I built it to be 32” x 60” to hold my three tier propane system that you can see photo below: Built two frames out of 2x4s and attached them vertically with 2x6s that I had laying around (ran out of 2x4s) because I thought hey is there ever such a thing as too sturdy? Only thing I had to buy...

I made a kreik based on the nb recipe. It was made about three months ago and it’s still souring. My question is about the amount of cherry flavor. I tasted it and it’s about a 4.2 ph but I don’t get hardly any cherry in it and i used two of the big cans of cherry purée. Should I add more to...

I had a pumpkin ale kit that I made back in November. It was in primary for three weeks and then in secondary for three weeks. According to the kit the og was supposed to be 1.059 and I used fresh pumpkin juice instead of the canned pumpkin it called for. My measured og was 1.065. The fg was...

I have a northern brewer extract kit for the pumpkin spiced latte stout and it calls for lactose. My wife and I are both lactose intolerant so I'm not using that. I have added some maltodextrine to it for the sweetener but I know I will be missing the creaminess that the lactose has. I was...

I have hard that there are tablets or drops that can be used to carbonate in the bottle. Basically I have a cider batch that is extremely dry and has very little apple flavor. It's working on week two in the secondary. I want to be able to sweeten it with a natural sweetener but want it...

I had a friend comment the other day that when he sweetens with honey it tends to not all ferment out. Which is kind of what I want to have happen. I want it to be about 6% but still be pretty sweet. I used pure apple juice and about 11oz of honey and other sweeteners. I have read a lot about...

I saw something on the cider section about kegging the cider to carbonate then bottling. For the cider it could be useful sweetening, and keeping the abv lower without making bottle bombs. Is this doable with beer as well to carbonate in a keg and then bottle it? I'm working on my first batch...