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http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Stone-Brewing-Announces-Layoffs-397019651.html Not sure what the deal is here since they keep building breweries and expanding. Maybe the beginning of the end? A major craft brewing shake up that leads to the closing of thousands of breweries nation-wide?

To acidify around 10 gallons of my sparge water to below a PH of 6, it takes about 18ml of 88% Lactic acid. Is this too much? I don't notice an overly lactic taste in the end result, but I could be missing it.

The keg pervasively had root beer in it by the smell. Kit has some kind of build up on the dip tube and inside walls higher in the keg. It's tough to describe. Kinda off white, not hard but not too loose. Kinda sticky like a glue or adhesive. What is it? What will clean it so I can...

I see all these "fancy schmancy" beers with food pairing suggestions and to me, it just reeks of pretentiousness. For the life of me, I can't think of any food outside of toothpaste and orange juice that doesn't pair well with any beer, in my mind. What foods don't pair well with beer (if any)?

Next weekend I plan to brew my first saison. I like the general style and I like the history/lore behind the style. I'm really interested in getting a solid feel for the style in dryness of flavor and spiciness of the yeast. I'm not looking for anything delicate or neutral. I want something...

My plan this morning was to cold crash my starter so I could step it up tonight for brew day on Saturday. Well, of course I completely forgot until about ten minutes ago. So it's still on the stir plate at home. If I step it up tomorrow night and then crash it Saturday morning to pitch...

So I was planning to brew a California Common tomorrow, but my son has taken ill and I'll likely take the day to take care of him. I have Wyeast's California lager yeast on the stir plate right now and here's my dilemma: Do I put it into the refrigerator to cold crash it to be brewed with...

I have the 30L Speidel plastic fermentor and recently did a deep clean (my wee heavy's fermentation was a wee bit vigorous) that included soaking the lid and o-ring over night in oxy clean. Everything came out sparkling, but after I lubed the o-ring with some keg lube and put it back together...

I'm considering stepping up my system in the next year, so I'm starting to get into the planning phase. Right now, I'm planning to do 10 gallon batches with a HLT, converted cooler MLT, and a BK. My plan is to use two burners; one under the HLT and one under the BK. I'd like to build an...

Glass five-gallon carboys for sale. $25 each or $115 for all five: http://madison.craigslist.org/art/4106849092.html

First time kegging last night and I set the pressure to about 8 or 9 PSI and put the whole setup in the fridge. This morning my regulator is saying almost 10 psi. I know the tank gauge is supposed to mis-read once the setup has been in the fridge, but I wasn't aware of any inaccuracies with...

I just picked up a bunch of these and these during Northern Brewer's BOGO sale. For those who have them, what size stopper or bung do you use? My glass carboy stoppers are too small.

So I've read some things on HBT that get me worried my next step might be a bad idea. I brewed a 1.070 porter last weekend with 1056 and was planning to rack a 1.1+ barleywine onto the yeast cake in a couple of weeks. I still have much of the cold break and some hop bits from the hop...

So Amazon emails me today and OxiClean Free 3lb is no longer available for subscribe and save. I was saving 20%!! Comon!!