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I finally got around to cleaning out my brew cabinet. I'm getting rid of bottling stuff, some keg stuff, some sensors..... too much to mention. I took pictures with descriptions in them. The goal is to move it all out, but please be realistic. I'm not going to run to the post office for one...

I'm brewing a 1.059 Vienna/rice summer drinker on Monday, 11.5 gallons to fermenter. My first use of Kveik. BrewersFriend is saying 475B cells required, 110B present. Normally I make starters for all my beers (1 packet and make a 2l 1.035 gravity starter - does well for me). I've been...

What you see is what I've got. 5 push button (lighted), 3 toggles (2 lighted, 1 is a 3 way) and an emergency stop. 3 NC, 4 NO switches and adapter pieces in addition to the ones attached to the buttons/toggles. Missing 1 screw that holds a switch up against the underside of the panel. I...

I have a recipe for a Guinness clone that I have found to be pretty spot on and that I have brewed often. All grain, herms. I just brewed it again and realized I didn't have any crushed barley on hand so I scrambled to find that pearled barley was a suitable substitute. I understand it has...

I've always used hoses with cam connects. I like the flexibility (no pun intended) of pulling them off for easy cleaning or if I need to do a custom connection. I've just recently mounted my 3 keggle herms system semi permanently to a brew pole and have determined that I don't need to pull...

When I built the new house I made sure that I had a brew porch outside with the water and electric I need. So far all I've done is use my existing 1 tier rolling steel cart with my 3 keg all electric system. The cart was necessary when I needed to roll in and out of the garage, but not...

I had this happen on a big Scottish Wee Heavy and I learned my lesson. In that case I left the 5500W element on when adding sugar or molasses or whatever it was. MISTAKE. Hit the element and burned, ruining the batch. Ever since, element is turned off at end of boil and the supplemental...

I'm looking for a quick way to detect any flow of CO2. I have a keezer with 8-9 kegs either on tap or carbonating at any given time. That's a lot of o-rings, connections and what not that can leak. I'm looking to put an inline, quick and simple flow meter to see if gas is flowing to tell me if...

A little while back I saw somebody had a link to a company that made little engraved plaques that stick on the control panel to label the switches. I can't find it again to save my life and now that my new panel is done I want to get some..... anyone?

Unfortunately we had a biblical sized hail storm here in Texas Hill Country back in early June that decimated the very promising crop of prickly pear fruits. The same storm that took out the cactus did $10K worth of damage to my 5th wheel RV, $2K to my BMW and will require a new roof on my...

Has anyone ever used their electric boil kettle setup as a deep fryer? I have a keggle with a 5500 w element controlled by a raspberry pi controller that I am considering using for deep frying when needed. Sure, it's a lot of oil, but if you're doing turkeys at Thanksgiving or a big old fried...

I'm not a huge sour fan, but with all precautions in place to not contaminate my whole brewery, I made a sour using White Labs(?) Belgian sour mix yeast and what was essentially a witbier grain bill. It's sitting in a dedicated corny keg as a fermenter and been at it for about 5 months at ~85*...

I have a 3 Sanke keg brew setup; HLT, mash tun and boil kettle. Straightforward. Brewing in Houston in the summer is a bear because it's so hot and the tap water is fairly useless for cooling unless you use huge quantities to get down to ~90 degrees. Well, we're building a home out in Hill...

I've been using my Tilt, integrating it to Brewer's Friend and enjoying the insight it gives me to my fermentation for quite a while now. Well, the Bluetooth appeared to have crapped out so I reached out to them. Marcus promptly sent me out a new one (the newer version to boot) and a mailing...

I use a Sanke keg as a mash tun in my all electric Hermes setup. I would get stuck sparges and clogged lines even with my false bottom and rice hulls. I've since added a mesh bag inside the tun and this makes life soooooo much easier. The downside is my efficiency has dropped a few points...

My son has accepted a job at Sandia Labs in ABQ. We're going to move him out there at the end of this week. We've been there before and think the beer scene is great. We'll be visiting as many as we can (again) while there. For those of you out there, can you recommend a good apartment...

I don't want to be that guy. The one that always asks "does this look infected?" or "why don't I see bubbles?". I've been brewing for years without doing so. I have a bit of a head scratcher right now though. I brewed up a quick 5 gallons of what is supposed to become a Biere de Garde...

Ouch. It seems that the recipe I followed for an Old Chub clone (Scottish ale) has resulted in a WAAAAAY too smokey beer. Pretty undrinkable. .8 lbs German smoked malt in a total grain bill of 31.6 lbs (2.5%). It is not very pleasant. The beer is an animal, pitching it over an established...

I have a traditional 3 tank (kegs) setup with a HERMS coil inside the HLT. I pump the mash through this for temp control. When doing a BIG beer or a sticky one, this sometimes results in some clogging. I know that the grind is a little small sometimes, but I like the efficiency of such. I...

Need some quick advice... I currently have an Irish Stout in the fermenter (done, just need to cold crash). It is ~35 IBU, Nottingham yeast. This coming Wednesday were brewing up a big (1.080 OG) Scottish Wee Heavy. I'm thinking that since I need to build up a pretty big starter for our 10...