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Howdy. I'm looking to convert chest freezer into a keezer. For aesthetic reasons, She Who Must Be Obeyed decided on 4 angled top towers. I'm wondering about cooling the lot of them. Should I get a fan for each or could I get away with 2 and divide each airflow into two towers? Also, I'm...

Finally decided to make a hoppy beer. I'm fairly new at making recipes up and after some snooping around online, I came up with the recipe below based on what I have available at home. Any advice, corrections, warnings and mockery will be gratefully received. This is the first brew I'll make...

Howdy, I know I should have started my lager for Oktoberfest in March to be traditional, but life, general confusion, and forgetting everything I bought and hid in the fridge, intervened, and now I'm stuck with my W.Y. 2206 expiring soon, so I have to use it up. I'd be grateful for any advice...

Howdy. I hope someone could shed some light on what's been going on with the volumes and OG of my latest brew. I'm still not used to Brew Smith's volume calculator, and I think my boil-off is really inconsistent, but I'm still getting really high OGs and more than enough beer into the...

Howdy, I'm turning my small (ca. 7 cu. ft) deep freezer into a fermentation chamber with an STC 1000. The freezer says it draws 3 amps. I don't know much about electricity but I've read that freezers can draw much more than their rated amperage at startup. Should I wire up a relay to protect...

Howdy. A friend at work has given me a small vacuum sealed bag of frozen hops he grew a few years ago. He says there are lots more where that came from but he doesn't know the variety or anything about them. I'm a complete noob but I wouldn't mind brewing up something with them. I've only used...

Hi, I've venturing into making some of my own recipes for a while and have had some success with simple concoctions (well, no one died and I'm not being sued). In my enthusiasm, I ordered a mess of stuff not quite sure what to do with them. It is time to put some of those ingredients into a...

Hi! I just started brewing a while ago and found this site googling about CO2 tanks, kegs, and stuff. I've got a pair of 3 gallon kegs, one of which has some simple hard cider that was ready last week. It's almost gone… I've also got a small batch of mild Ale from a Dry Malt kit with some...