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So I live in northern ca and we evacuated back in oct due to the tubs fire. Apparently my beer freezer got unplugged shortly after the evac and never got plugged back in. I haven’t been brewing the past year due to life/kid/work stuff so I never noticed this until yesterday. Obviously the...

I have a cider that's sitting just under 8% abv and finished at 1.002 that's very dry and tart. I'd like to back-sweeten it up a bit, but I can't find any estimates of the specific gravity of the wine conditioner. Most wine conditioners state to add 1-4oz per gallon but don't list their sg...

I have a batch of cider going and it's too warm in the house and too cold in the garage to ferment without some temp control. So I'm running into a problem I'm not really sure how to correctly troubleshoot. I have my brewhemoth setup with the ic running to a cooler with an aquarium heater...

Allow me to first preface this with a simple fact. I treated this mead terribly and with shameful neglect, I'm a monster and given the chance I'd probably steal candy for a baby (p.s I ate most of my son's halloween candy) So I just dumped two different batches of mead due to a overpowering...

Howdy Folks, So prior to taking a bit of a break from brewing I acquired a brewhemoth conical. While it's great to be able to do variable size batches under pressure, it brought with it a larger problem of fermentation temp control. While I have the IC for the brewhemoth, I found I was...

So I primarily keg and my wife is bugging me to cleanup the garage so I'm paring down my empty bottle collection. All bottles are delabeled and were soaked and cleaned in oxy, but they're dusty and could use a good rinse. 2 1/4 cases of brown 12oz bottles. 10 are longnecks, the rest shorts...

Folks, I have a Johnson A419 controller jumped in factory default settings that I'm using with my brewhemoth conical to control the pump for the IC. I have it configured with the following settings. SP: 66F SF: 1 OFS: 0 ASD: 1 DIF: 1 What I'm expecting is that the controller will...

Folks, It's that time of year for me, late spring throughout the summer I have high demands to keep a raspberry blonde on tap. Years past I'd simply secondary and add the fruit in and carefully rack to kegs with a hop bag around the autosiphone but last year I retired all my carboys to...

So I meant to brew last week, and had a Conan starter on my stirplate. I ended up having to go out of town for work, and it's now been on the plate for at least a week, covered with foil and constant movement. Should I even consider this yeast viable any longer, or should I dump it and start...

After 2 years of saving, and searching for a used one, I finally pulled the trigger on a new BGE. Got it all put together (which took far longer than I thought it would), and did a 3lb tri tip on it to test it out. I forgot how good meat done over lump tasted as I've been grilling on...

So I ordered a Tri Clover 1/1.5" to 1/4" MFL fitting from brewershardware with the intention of placing it on my racking port and threading a standard 1/4" nut & barb to beverage line and a liquid in ball QD to allow me to rack from conical to keg without exposing the beer to oxygen. However...

Looking for a couple cans (2-4) of fresh Heady Topper. I can get fresh Pliny as well as all other current Russian River offerings, Firestone Walker, Lost Abby, Ballast Point. Etc.

So finally, after about a year of planning, saving, comparing and shopping I pulled the trigger on a brewhemoth with immersion chiller and a spunding valve right before the new years. So I should have it by the end of the month and I'm planning ahead for my first batch when I realized I'm...

Bad news for the folks up north. http://beerpulse.com/2013/01/russian-river-brewing-pulls-out-of-the-state-of-washington/ Russian River is ceasing distribution to the state of Washington immediately, and the final shipments to distributors in that state have already been sent. If your a...

So I currently have a 50' 1/2" IC that works mostly ok during the winter, and is pretty lack luster in the summer. I've been considering making the switch to a plate chiller, but since I already have the IC I've also been considering making the Jamil style whirlpool. To make that look even...

So I was lucky enough to get a March 815 pump for xmas, however it only came with a repair parts list and very sparse instruction paragraph. So my main question is about fittings as I believe I read somewhere that you shouldn't have any elbows on the inlet side? I was planning on doing a...

So I recently pulled the most updated copy of my local water report and I'm wondering if I should be worried about what I think are relatively high levels of Alkanity, and PH. PH 7.2 (Says Avg after Adjustment 8.29) Sodium: 53.3 ppm Total Hardness CaCO3: 144 ppm Total Alkalinity as CaCO3...

I'm going to brew a wheat IPA next weekend and am hoping for suggestions for hopping as all the IPA's I've done far have been full recipes I've found on HBT. The planned grist and mash outline is below and needing to fill in the hopping type and schedule. I'd like to keep the OG at 1.070 or...

After quaffing large quantities of Russian River R2H56 at the brewery I set out to make a homebrew clone. Vinnie Cilurzo was a huge help and is incredibly generous with information! This is an awesome APA, bright yellow/gold in color with firm hop bitterness, white head and lacing and massive...

So I decided I want to bite the bullet and get a BGE and found that a dealer is literally two minutes from my house. I popped in the other day to price out a large bge. They offered my a large bge and nest for $999.99 before tax. When I asked if that was the best they could do they told me...