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A friend and I were brewing a Pilsner today using 100% Pilsner malt and did a three step mash. 104, 140, and 158 degrees for thirty min each. At the end of the first step, we went to turn the pump on to run the wort through the Herms coil and it was stuck as stuck can be. We used the paddle to...

Not sure why the picture is upside down but I can't figure out how to change it....

My two mini schnauzers, lady and pepper. They are sisters. I love these dogs and they have the funniest personalities!

I could be wrong, how is that different from some other automated brew machine? Just curious. Maybe because you can't choose what you put in it?

I brewed a Pilsner in sept last year and kegged it. I would sample it from time to time but I was getting similar results, cloudy and didn't taste real great. I even served it to friends who didn't seem to mind. But I just kicked that keg a couple days ago and it was just starting to taste...

Sounds great!!!

Haha I know what you mean. All my brewing is done in the garage or outside, I have had many spills and accidents. If they happened in the house I would be in big trouble. Just be careful!

I had a stout take a long time to carb up also. Probably 4 or 5 weeks. I don't know if it was because it was a darker beer, I think because it was wintertime had more to do with it.

i always do that. I don't think you have to but it makes me feel better. I never squeeze the bag although I hear that people that do BIAB often squeeze the bag to get all the sugars out. I've never done biab though

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Something like that happened to me where the hole wasn't quite the shape I wanted, and I had leaks. the weldless valve kit I got only included one of those red gaskets, I just ordered a couple more gaskets and put them on both sides and it worked ever since. Don't know if that will help, but...

dont forget to put your false bottom back into your mash tun and only realize it right before vorlauf when not a single drop comes out.... fortunately i had an extra kettle i could dump the hot mash into and then dump it back...... no fun though and really heavy. and hot too.

Fwiw, after pouring out a bottled beer, I just rinse with water and dry upside down. Then before bottling again I just give it a couple pumps with the star San injector, and I'm good to go. No long pbw soaks or anything. I've used the same bottles over at least ten times and never had a...

Haha it was very hot and the beer was very cold. I wish I took a picture of the glass because it was cracked down the middle so perfectly. I'm just glad it wasn't my glass carboy!!!

PINT glass

It's been so hot here in so cal that on Tuesday I grabbed a pint glass from my hot garage and poured a cold one into it and the whole glass just split right in half down the middle! I couldn't believe it! Anyone else have something like that happen to you?

last week i made a starter with some lager yeast to use last weekend. life got in the way and the brew day didnt happen and i wont be able to brew for a couple weeks. i put the starter in the fridge for now in the flask with some tin foil over the top. i have read that it will be good for a...

When you make a starter with lager yeast, do you have to keep it at lager temp? Also, does it take longer than an ale starter?

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Yesterday I brewed for the first time with my own homegrown chinook hops, I picked them about a week ago, and I thought I was too late because some cones were already turning brown. I almost didn't use them because they did not smell a whole lot, but after putting them in a hop bag and squeezing...