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Hey Guys, I've been wanting to tackle making a large fermentation chamber for a while now and since I've got 4 weeks of holidays coming up in June I think its about time to start. For starters I have a clone of Kals system from www.theelectricbrewery.com except I've got 30 gal pots...

Hey Guys, So I'm just wanting to hear some opinions on how you guys think this beer would of turned out if I had finished it. I've got an electric system and today I found out one of the downsides of having it. When the power goes out your screwed! I had literally just dumped my grain in...

Hi guys, I wanted to ask a quick questions out before I move ahead with this plan. I have kals electric brewery setup (www.theelectricbrewery.com) and would like to hard pipe everything. I've used the silicon hoses and camlocks (he uses quickconnects) and have found them to be one of the...

Ok guys. So I'm wondering if any of u know what this is. I'm thinking it might be some kind of infection but I'm not sure. Nothing out of the ordinary with this one really. Its sierra nevada rye ipa. I dry hopped it in the primary (I don't usually do that but this time I thought I'd try) I've...

Hi Guys, I'm currently building an electric HERMS brewery. I've seen people put an in line sight glasses on their systems like this: http://www.brewershardware.com/TC10SG.html I'm trying to figure out what the benefits would be for me to add one. I'm thinking that one use I can see is on...

Hey Guys, So I'm a bit confused why lately I've been having such low FG on my beers. I'll give as many details as I can to help determine whats going on. I've been reading the book "Yeast" by Jamil Zainasheff so I've been really working on getting large cell count on my yeast and fast...

Hi guys, So last week i finally did something I've wanted to do for a while. I pressure canned a bunch of wort for yeast starters. I did about 8lbs of 2 row and was aiming for wort around 1.050. Hit my target and then put them into 1 qt canning jars. Then i pressure canned them without a...

Hey Guys, I got a quick question about a recent brew I made. Last week I did a french siason. It was a recipe I found at the local homebrew store. The recipe is this. 12 lbs 2 row 0.5 lbs Munich malt 0.75lbs wheat malt 0.25lbs Brown malt 12.5 AAU perle - 60min 1.6 oz sterling - 15...

So I had a brew day yesterday and brewed an IPA I've done before that I've had success with and turned out very tasty. Some interesting things happened yesterday that still have me a little confused as to what happened and what caused it. I was using a large grain bill with 15.65lbs of grain...

So most of you will probably laugh but I'm sure there are some of you out there like me who hate these kinds of things. I'm taking about taking an accurate reading of my Mash temp. I ended up buying a nice digital waterproof thermometer with a long prob that I can stick in the mash. Its...

Hey Guys, Im very new to home brewing having just finished my first all grain beer. I tried it a couple days ago and I'm very happy with it for my first brew. While brewing this beer a question came up that I thought I'd ask the forum. I started my boil with about 6 gal of wort hoping this...