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Hi all, Home brewing equipment for sale. Individual components available for below prices or $100 for the set: Copper immersion chiller #1 (larger one): $40 Copper immersion chiller #2: (smaller one): $30 5 gallon stock pot: $10 5 gallon Rubbermaid mash tun: $20 5 gallon Rubbermaid hot liquor...

Hey all, The short question I want to ask is: will my beer be okay sitting on a yeast cake for 2 months at temperatures intentionally warm? I'd like to get it up to 90F if possible, to allow resident bacteria to continue to sour the beer. The rationale is as follows: I'm brewing a sour...

Hi, In my eagerness to finally bottle my barleywine (that's been bulk aging for 6 months ><) I think I made another stupid beginner mistake. Slightly more than half the bottles I used to bottle it I let soak in oxyclean for what was originally just going to be 12 hours or so, but ended up...

Helloo, So I am a proud new owner of a GE 7.0 cu ft chest freezer! Just rigged up that bad boy to a Johnson temperature controller, and it's working well so far! I just had one question - the cord that the temperature probe is attached to (and feeds into the chest from the outside) sticks...

Hello, I searched and searched, and couldn't find if anyone asked or answered the specific question I have. I'm considering buying a chest freezer, temperature controller, and a few kegs. But before I invest in CO2 equipment, I was wondering if it would be possible to just use the kegs as...

Hi, I have an interesting problem. I am doing a pumpkin beer, sort of all grain but with BIAB. My recipe has 9 lb 2-row, 1.75lb specialty grains, and will have 5 lb of baked pumpkin for extra fermentables and pumpkin flavor. This is a total of 16.75lb fermentables, which is WAY too...

Hello, So a friend of mine with Celiacs asked me to brew a dark GF beer without sorghum. My initial thought was an oatmeal stout of sorts, but soon after I realized that there really aren't any GF malted oats, so I'm trying to think of other alternatives. I thought I could simply...

Hello fellow brewers, I come to you in the darkest hour of my brewing career. I've brewed about 10 or so batches so far without any major hitches, aside from overcarbonation. But in the past two weeks, I've lost TWO different 5gal batches to infection - I THINK it's lactobacillus. I don't...

Hellooo, So, once again, I have created an overcarbed beer. It's particularly frustrating because I thought I followed all the rules this time - I made sure my beer was fully attenuated, took careful gravity readings, added the correct amount of priming sugar for the style, and adequately...

Hi all, Me and the SWMBO are going to Budapest in a month, and naturally I'm thinking of what sort of Hungarian-esque homebrews I can make to commemorate the trip. I've been told Hungary isn't particularly known for beer, but that they are well known for their wine. Irrespective, I am...

Hello homebrewtalk community, So, about 2 weeks back I brewed a big ass 1.110 barleywine. I threw this behemoth on top of the Wyeast 1318 yeast cake from a 1.034 bitter, and it fermented extremely aggressively (blowoff + Fermcap S was barely able to contain the beast). I didn't wash or...

Hello everyone, I hope my title isn't too misleading - NO this is not a recipe thread for a specialty beer made with bug spray :drunk:. Rather, I wanted to see if any of you fine homebrewers out there have found yourself in the predicament I now find myself in. Basically, we're getting...

Hello fellow homebrewers! So I had my first homebrewing accident so to speak. I dropped my bottle tree when it was holding about 45 or so bottles. Miraculously, only two bottles broke (and one of the bottles that broke only had a damaged opening). I cleaned it up and it wasn't a big...

Hey everyone, So, I asked my SWMBO what sort of beer she wants me to make next, and she said that she wants me to make a dark, roasty fruit beer. Now, I tried to explain to her that summertime isn't exactly dark roasty beer season, and that I was originally planning on brewing a light...

Hello everyone, This is definitely a noob question, so I thought I would put it out there. I am soon to be in a situation where I will have enough ingredients to brew two batches of beer the same weekend! (Not a terrible problem to have, by the way). My problem now is that I have only...

Salutations! I was hoping I could ask all you cider gurus out there for some technical advice. I started brewing 2 gallons of cider last week using store bought juice and a pound of corn sugar for some extra fermentatables. It's been in a 5 gallon primary for a week, which I understood was...

Hello everyone, I consider myself a novice brewer, even though I have a few extract brews under my belt (many of which, at least my friends and I, seemed to enjoy). I am at a point where I want to start thinking about making the jump to partial mash, and the style of beer that I have in mind...

Hey everyone, So, this is my third batch at this point, so I'd like to think I know a little bit more than I did two months ago... This time I am trying to brew a licorice chocolate & raisin porter (with extract). Approximately 8 hours after I pitched the yeast, there was about one bubble...