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First All Grain Brewing Mistake: My first all grain brewing day was yesterday - Northern Brewer's "Summer Squeeze Lemon Shandy" (9.5 pounds of grain) I misunderstood the instructions from Northern Brewer and instead of pouring 1 gallon of 170F water into the mash tun for batch sparging, I...

I've done a couple dozen extract clone recipes that use 2-3 pounds of grain, but now I'm thinking about doing all grain for the first time. I always keg to 5 gallon corny kegs, so a 10 gallon system makes 5 gallons I've read. So all grain equipment list is???: 8 gallon hot liquor tank w...

Last week I found my sanke connector had a bad o-ring on the bottom and replaced it with a new D-style connector with keg lube and that fixed the air pockets and spitting coming out of the tap during the pour. Now the pours come out 25%-30% foam instead of 50% foam, The foam comes out at the...

I've been brewing for a few years and have my homebrew lines set up nicely and it pours the way I want it - but yesterday I bought a 5 gallon commercial keg from a brewery and it's 50% foam every time. The commercial beer is a sour ale with a commercial keg D style connector that I just bought...