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Tl/Dr; does this look ok? Or did I miss up? Ok. I tried canning starter wort today. It seemed like an easy enough proposition. I figured out how much dme and water per jar to let me dilute a single jar to approximately 1.040 as a 2liter starter. So far so good. I ended up with 10 quart jars at...

Recently I built a collar keezer. My set up for 10 corny kegs And has 4 intertap faucets. I've been trying to carb up a cream ale for several weeks with no luck. I keep the keezer set to 38f +-2f. I've got my temp probe hot glued into a 20oz Coke bottle full of water. I set the bottle square...

My first time making Mead I decided to do a jaom 1 gallon batch. Such an easy process to do! I especially like the don't mess with it part. Just sit it in the corner and forget about it for a couple months. Going to try to post pics as it ferments.

I'm just about finished with my new keezer.. My last keezer had a 2-tap tower through the lid.. which was very easy and quick to do.. but I never really liked it.. it was always a PITA to open the lid and change out kegs.. (tower hit the wall, so I always had to move it around to open it up.. )...

I tried doing water additions for the first time today. I used 16.5g water for my brew. 8.5 went in the mash. Rest went into the hlt for herms temp control and stuff. Question I have.. the water looked milky after I added the minerals. And now that I've finished sparging my hlt is coated in...

I'm doing a brew today and I got to thinking about how I monitor my mash temperature. I have a keggle gas fired herms set up. Typically I heat my hlt to be hotter than my mash temp and recirculate through the herms coil the whole mash. I measure the temp using an igrill 2 Bluetooth temp monitor...

Ok. I'm lazy. A fairly long time ago I was washing and sanitizing my kegs. I have several so I tend to do them in batches. One thing led to another and I ended up leaving my keg lids orings poppets and prvs in a bucket of starsan. Fast forward 6 or 8 months and all the starsan has evaporated...

I recently got another ITC-308 dual stage controller for my glycol fermentation set up. I have 3 others on the system already and have had no real issues with them at all. This new unit I have, however, may be defective. when I hooked it up and configured it. it appeared to function...

I am planning to do a brew on saturday afternoon.. I usually would have built my starter on tuesday, but as you can guess I missed that and am considering if I have enough time to build a starter tonight and still have it done and cold-crashed by saturday evening. I may not technically need to...

Hello all! I'm planning my Brew Year! (swidt?) Usually I just brew when I feel like it and when I have time -- which means I don't brew often enough.. (I always feel like it, but never have the time) I figured the best way to alleviate this situation is to schedule/plan my brews so that I...

I'm getting towards the end of first stage of my first lager! Yay! The question i have is if you need to transfer into a secondary after the d rest for the lagering period. Or can i leave it on the yeast cake until i keg it?

I'm sure this has been covered before but my Google-fu is weak today. What temp should a glycol resuvoir be set to? I'm currently fermenting an ale at 66f and a lager at 54f. Eventually I'll cold crash the ale and start lagering around 34f. Currently I've got my glycol set to 23f. But I'm...

Quick question is can i use acid #5 to remove rust and re passivate stainless? Most stuff i read mentions citric or nitric acid for this but i don't have any. i do have some #5. Depending on the answer above is yes, next question is how do u do it?

Hey, since I'm almost complete with my glycol temp controller project (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=591668) I'm getting excited to try my hand at a Lager. while reading up on the specifics, I've come to a question.. many places say that you should primary, then perform a...

Hey, I'm so exited right now that I just had to share. I just turned on my glycol chiller loop for the first time! Woot! I've been collecting parts and working on this thing for close to 2 years off and on now. I'm just running a cooling test now using water. Checking leaks and such...

I finally pulled the trigger and bought some/lots of nice stainless fittings from BrewHardware (thanks @bobby_m !) to set up my propane fired Keggle HLT with a HERMS coil over this past weekend. while I was brewing on sunday, and fiddling with the temp control/figuring out how to actually use...

Just tried omegang three eyed raven. The bottle says it has yeast in it. Any one know if they bottle with the same yeast that primary fermentation is done with? Figured I would try culturing up a starter from the dregs. Fantastic head and lacing from this beer anyone know what the grain bill...

I use a direct fired keggle mashtun for my brews -- typically 10G batches, but some times 5G. I've been experimenting lately with ways to maintain temperature and do stepped mashes. up until now I have heated my strike water in the MT, doughed in, mashed for 60 to 90 min (depending on the...

This past weekend, I finally put together my motorized grain mill. I bought the Cereal Killer mill about a year ago (very happy with it btw) and up until now, I've been either hand-cranking (ugh!) or hovering over the bucket+mill wielding a cordless drill (very functional, but a pain in the...