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Brewed a big fat stout that came in at 1.105 SG - all 10 gallons. I pitched a whopping 9 packets of rehydrated Safale 04, oxygenated, and the fermentation went off like a shot. We tasted the beer a week after and it was delicious. I took a gravity reading today, 5 days later, and it was only...

I havent had time to brew in the past few months, so serving homebrew at a party we are hosting this weekend is not an option. So, I thought I would put my keezer and homemade draught tower to work and serve something bubbly but with vodka. Anyone have any favorite drink recipes that could...

Title pretty much says it all, but for the uninitiated, LTS is a fancy way of saying that a person's tongue has been so blasted by hops that they don't get the same flavor induced euphoria. Basically, we hopheads are kind of like heroine addicts, subject to the same Law of Diminishing Returns...

Any critiques/suggestions? 55.8% 2 row 20.8% white wheat malt 13.9% marris otter 6.1% dextrose 3.5% acidulated rice hulls For a 10 gallon batch 2 oz chinook @60min 30 ibu Citra and Nelson Sauvin @8oz ea at flameout

Functionally like new, but with two small scuffs (see pics) They go for ~$245 brand new. $200 shipped. Micromatic product info: http://bit.ly/1jsUROv

A local bar just opened, and closed less than a year later and I got this from the owner. For sale is a pro level gas blender that takes two separate tanks, a nitrogen tank and a carbon dioxide tank and it mixes a perfect blend of gas for pulling velvety stouts. 70% N2, 30% CO2. The functional...

I've been researching the best way to coat my new concrete floored addition, a bedroom and laundry room (read: brewing clean up room with a drain!) and I think I am going to go with a polyurea coating from Legacy Industrial called Nohr-S Polyurea Coating. Has anyone used this very coating in a...

Anyone ever brew indoors with their propane burner? I have both a Blichman and a Northern Brewer Dark Star that I wanted to use in my laundry room with an exhaust fan that pulls 700 CFM to get rid of the heat and used air. Initially, I thought, "Bad idea, dude," but then I have a gas oven...

Hey all, Got a health wake up call when I signed up for life insurance recently. I'm only 32, but I have high cholesterol and I am overweight (athletic build 6'5" but 315lbs) and cost about twice as much as my wife in premiums each month. I am in the right frame of mind about becoming...

Off flavors find their way into beer for a number of reasons, so this idea will not apply to all botched beers, but I am thinking it might be worth a shot. Some off flavors in beer are caused because the yeast have not had the best opportunity to clean up intermediary fermentation compounds...

I'm looking for a better solution to hauling full carboys. It kind of irks me to have to pay $20 for the harness for my carboy when the bigmouth bubblers from Northern Brewer only cost $29. I've seen milk crates and the empty-only neck handles, but I'm wondering if anybody has gone to the...

I was hungry and inspired by the Food Network show "Chopped" a couple weeks ago and dreamt up this quick n easy recipe that my foodie family loved, so I thought I would share. To start, I sautéed some chicken in a bit of oil and then added a bit of sesame oil (I've used rotisserie chicken...

Can anyone recommend any great black Friday deals? Especially stuff that doesn't come around for sale that often.

When trying to purge a vessel of oxygen we often fill it with CO2 because CO2 is heavier and the oxygen will form a blanket on top of the CO2 and be pushed out. How long does it take before the CO2 and oxygen completely separate? I'm sure there's some sort of mixing going on so I want to put...

Been brewing with a buddy lately and splitting the costs on equipment. His girlfriend just contacted me and wanted to spend about $200 on a brewing gift for his bday in a couple months. I suggested we partner together and get the SS 14gal conical together. She was all about it. So, here's...

Didn't see a thread like this out there, so let's share some bad brewing ideas that we tried and didn't work with the point being to learn from other's mistakes! I'm thinking specifically of things like ingredients or process related ideas, but share anything you think might help folks out. My...

Does anyone else get muscle cramps after having 3 or more drinks? I find that I get foot and calf cramps during the night and next morning on a pretty regular basis after having a few beers. Any remedies that you do or eat/drink that help?

Last weekend we brewed a 5 gal batch of hop bursted IPA. All went well on brew day. We pitched a pack of Safale 05 directly into the 70° fermenter of 1.070 wort and then used a 0.5 micron air stone with O2 and had airlock activity within 12 hrs. The fermenter went into my temp controlled...

I just got smacked in the nose and tongue by one of the most delicious beers I have ever had. It was from The Bruery, in S. California. I immediately came to HBT to see how to brew a beer like this but found only mild success stories of guys soaking in vodka or getting a moldy hop bag of coconut...

It's time to renew my AHA membership. Does anyone know of any discount code that could save me a few bucks? Call me what you will, but frugality is in my blood...I'm a carrier of the tay-Sachs gene, haha.