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Well, it had to happen eventually - after more than 30 + years of brewing, I had my first batch go bad. Having said it went “bad” is an understatement, I didn’t notice the smell when I poured my first glass, I took a gulp and it was like a mouth full of a vile, rotten carcass of something that...

G’day all, I pulled my dry hop basket from a spent leg, cleaning out the hops, (pellets) it was not an easy task - it was hard and compact. I can’t imagine there would be much flow of beer in or around this cake? Anyone else experience this ?

Fellow Beer Mates, Question - is there a too long of a timeframe to soak equipment In Star Sanitizer ? Does the sanitizer, not work after a while?

Hey, had anyone built an all in one fridge/fermenter, thus using the cooling parts from a mini fridge? I’m looking to build something that will hold for canisters and a 5 gallon carboy, for camping in my RV. I think I would need two temperature controllers; One to regulate the temperature of...

Hi All, I did a double batch of Pilsner Urquell today. Long day, I did two decoctions... I could not manage to chill my wort any lower than the supplied water using the garden hose water 64f / 17c thru my immersion chiller. I’m using x4 of White Labs WP802 Lager yeast My beer is currently...

Has anyone successfully converted an ultraviolet light tube to a RIMS heating tube 🤔

I’m attempting to raise my mash temp from 152 to mash out of 170 using my coil in my HLT - thus, recirculating the wort using my pump thru the coil. Looking for a formula that will tell me the temperature of the required temp in my HLT to bring my mash temp up to 170 Cheers, James

Considering making the move to an all in one brewing system. But, I had a thought - has anyone tried to install a hot water element under their false bottom within an upright 10gal Orange Gott cooler and then recirculate entire mash duration for temp control and clearer beer? In order to make...

My 2000w / 120v hot water element in my HLT finally died after 100s of brew sessions. So, I had a brand new in the package 5500w / 220v kicking around from when I lived overseas. In need of brewing, I replaced this today - and when I plugged it into my Inkbird Temperature Controller -...