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After a long absence due to home renovations and the craziness that is the world these days, I have finally been able to get back to brewing again. I had a friend over to hang out with me this past weekend while I was making a Kilkenny clone and he asked me about brewing up a clone of his...

It has been a couple of months since I have been into my LHBS and in that time they have decided to stop using White Labs yeast and are going to be carrying the Omega Yeast Labs products. I picked up a package of their Irish ale yeast but it is just about 2 months old. Here is my issue, I am...

Good day, I have the opportunity to pick up this unit cheap as a scratch and dent unit from the manufacturer. I have looked around but I was not able to find any threads with people with experience of setting up a keezer with a temperature controller using a freezer that comes with built in...

I have d/l the demo version of Beersmith and I am trying it out for the first time and I am confused about how the timers work. I am doing a BIAB and I have setup the recipe which calls for a 90 minute mash. When I look at the brew steps, after the 90 minutes, it is listing and increase in...

I made my first attempt to reuse some yeast from a batch of beer that I did a couple of months ago. In what I think was successful wash of the yeast because the yeast at the bottom of the 3 mason jars had a very good colour and formed a very solid cake at the bottom of the jars. The jars were...

I was looking to fire up a brew day tomorrow so I decided I would try to make my first starter. I was looking at making a 2.5 gallon batch using White Labs WLP0004 Irish Ale yeast. I am going to be making a 2.5 gallon batch but since the yeast had a package date of back in March, I decided to...

I purchased a pair of sankey ball lock couplers from Amazon and they arrived wih no instructions as to which one is for the gas and which one for the beer. The only thing different between the two is the finish. One has a polished finish around the base and the other is unpolished. Can anyone...

Hello all, After being out of the hobby for 20 years I have made the leap back in and boy have things changed over that time. The options/ideas available today are almost overwhelming. With having made the leap back in with a couple of extract brews that are getting close to kegging time...