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Hi all! About five years ago I moved from Ohio to Michigan, and I haven't touched my brewing equipment since. So, it's time to get it all out of the basement and get it into a home that will actually use it. $1500 FIRM gets you the whole shebang. Cash preferred, but Venmo or PayPal works too...

Alright, hive mind... Let's hear your opinions. This coming weekend I'm making a Old Ale (OG 1.100). Monday night I made a 3L starter with Omega Labs British Ale II (OYL-007) in a 5L flask. I put in on a stir plate in my basement, and capped it with a foam stopper. Tuesday night at 5pm it...

Hi all, I brewed this past weekend, and had a really weird problem that I've never encountered. I have a 15gal kettle tun with a RIMs tube and chugger pump. This recipe has a really long mash/recirc (~3 hours including step time), and it had all gone normally. The grain bed was nice and...

Hey all, I’m looking into building a glycol chiller out of an aquarium or hydroponics chiller, with a 10gal cooler as a glycol reservoir. I’m chilling a 7gal Spike conical located in my basement, which can get into the mid 70s in summer. Two main questions: 1) What size chiller do I need...

Honestly, I'm not quite sure which forum to put this post in... But for right now, I'm going to go with the "equipment" forum. I brewed today for the first time with my new Spike 15gal mash tun. Super duper nice piece of equipement, but I only got ~41% mash efficiency. Beersmith was...

Hey all, I'm looking to do an Imperial Red, with a good balance of maltiness and hoppiness. I haven't used Falconers in a long time, but I was thinking it's be a good hop for this. Not sure if the mix of Maris Otter and Biscuit will be TOO malty... Take a look at my recipe and let me know...

A few years ago I had the privilege of drinking a rum barrel aged version of Wicked Weed's Dark Age stout. And man, was it glorious. I would like to try and make something similar, so I currently have a couple bottles of rum in a 5gal bourbon barrel to condition it. Now all I need is the recipe...

Hey guys, I'm trying to do do a caramely belgiany strong dark. I know the color is going to be out of style, but whatevers. 16lb German Pilsner (LHBS didn't have Belgian Pils) 0.5 Caramunich I 0.5 Special B Mash with RIMS (no decoction) 122F for ~20min 152F for ~60min 1oz...

My awesome wife got me a used 5gal whiskey barrel for our anniversary (5yrs=wood). I was super excited to use it, but noticed it has a crack radiating out from the bung hole. It's about 0.75mm wide, 10mm long, and 3mm deep. Is the barrel useable? I'm concerned that the stopper won't be able to...

Hi everyone, looking for a little help... I recently entered a DIPA into a BJCP competition, and both judges noted phenolic/plastic tastes. No diacetyl or DMS, though. So, I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong... Tropical style DIPA 5.5 gal batch 1.080 OG 1.012 FG Equipment: Mash tun is...

Hello All, For my next brew (Imperial Stout) I'm going to start digging into water chemistry... My tap water is crap, so I am going to start with store-bought DI water as a base, and build from there. I've been doing some reading on water chem and have been playing around with the Brun Water...