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I have an old DKC445BL kegerator with a 2.5" (not standard 3") tower that comes with it. I believe it's alumninum but not sure. I want to get s second line in there. The shank and elbow preclude me putting a second one in at the same height but if I go a little lower I can totally fit it...

I know I probably won't make any friends with this clearly off topic question but maybe I'll catch some homebrew experts in a good mood (You guys usually are). I want to fill one of my Cornys with water and lemons and carb it. Any chance of infections? I imagine not with carbed water...

I'm rapidly becoming stupid question guy but here goes: I have an older style Danby DKC445BL which I've got setup for 1 corny with 1 gas tank. I've googled a bit but I'm still not finding information that a hardware nob like me can digest. If I wanted to put one more corny in there and...

Beginning AG brewer here. I've heard a lot of concern about sparging with too little volume of water. I've also heard that you keep adding sparge water until you reach your desired wort volume in the brew kettle. I'm having a difficult time understanding that. Say you add (in theory...

I'm a beginner AG brewer (Did a few extracts before and one AG with plenty of help). I'd like to do a cucumber gose with some berries (I know is somewhat advanced but I'm psyched about it). My plan is the following: 1. Mash in low (148F or so) 2. lower mash pH to 4.5 ish using lactic acid 3...

Want to refresh an existing thread and ask about the future of homebrew kegging. Cornelius kegs are becoming increasingly hard to come by (and therefore correspondingly expensive if you can even find them.) LHBS here is selling them for about $110CAD which is about $86 USD right now. As...

I want to brew a cucumber Gose. Just want to make sure I have it right. I should add lacto to secondary fermentation. the pH and alcohol should be good enough such that I don't need to sanitize the cucumber from what I've been reading. 1. Is that true? 2. When do I add the...

I brewed the "Current Best Clone" of Heady Topper here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=390082 The result based on my brewing experience was pretty impressive. I had the help of a very experienced brewer so I can't really take much credit. All mistakes were my own. What I...

My Brew Kettle handles are spot welded. Usually I'm chilling about 5.5 gallons. I carry the hot and full kettle downstairs by the handles and scalding wort usually spills all over the place, but whatever. I've been told by my LHBS I should never carry a spot welded BK when full as the...

I bought a used Danby DKC445BL 5.2 kegerator and it's missing a few pieces like the castors, temp control knob, shank etc. The tower itself while already cheap has some pretty old and cracking foam in it. Any idea where I can get more foam for the inner circumerence and the round disk for...

Trying to save some money on a ferm chamber project. This is my second build. My first was about $450 USD. Due to me having moved to Toronto, USDCAD exchange rate makes things more expensive as do import costs. Any help would be appreciated. Continuing another thread from another...

So I tried the "current best recipe" here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=390082 I pitched 2 (count 'em) 2 vials of yeast. I did a late sugar addition (because I forgot) meaning I pitched the sugar into the hole in the pail where the airlock is 3 hours after I was done...

Newb question: Just bought a kettle from OntarioBeerKegs (very awesome prices) and it has a ~6" thermometer. However now I don't know how to fit my immersion coil chiller in there. Are my options to chill in mash tun or replace thermometer with a plug?

So my recipe called for turbinado sugar at flameout. I forgot to put this in so without thinking (and I don't know why) I was like "ok let me just pour it into the fermenting bucket without boiling 4 hours after finishing the rest of the beer". Dumb move. My beer is spoiled, right? It was 1...

I am trying to make a Heady Topper starter yeast. My procedure is as follows. Take dregs from 2 cans and pour into flask -add 250ML of 1.020 wort with yeast nutrient (1/2 tespoon) -next day add 500ML of 1.030 wort with yeast nutrient (1/2 teaspoon) -wait 2 days add 1L of 1.040 wort with...

I've read conflicting opinions on whether sanitation is required for adding items to secondary fermentation? i.e. dry hopping, chocolate, oak chips etc. I've heard mostly all around that when adding hops no sanitization is required but what about oak chips, cherries and other ingredients? If...

I started brewing by steeping crushed grains at ~150F for 1/2 hour. I'm having difficulty understanding the difference between partial mash and steeping. In this case the grains are crushed and my LHBS guy said it's to allow the fermentable sugars to be more easily accessible. That seems to...

I am interested in making my own yeast from scratch from fermenting fruit. Is this advised? Does it yield good results ? What is the process ? Do homebrewers do this often? Why or why not? I would be very interested in anyone with any experience. I've washed yeast before but I'm talking...

Dual Stage Custom Fermentation Chamber To my surprise the ferm project was a rousing success and I’m quite proud. The wiring was easy for me as I’m from a science/electrical background but I often screw up the mechanics of measuring drilling, cutting project boxes and the like. I’d like to...