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For an excellent gift, SWMBO bought me a used 10 gallong whiskey barrel because she'd heard me carrying on about how it would be nice to get one to age a beer in. She got it from Finger Lakes Distilling - http://fingerlakesdistilling.com/ - and she was told it previously held a wheat whiskey...

First off, I'm just getting into water chemistry stuff, so bear with me. My water comes out of a well, and it's really hard and there's tons of iron, so I just figured that it wasn't even worth brewing with straight well water. For a long time I've been using 50/50 softened and unsoftened...

I had to share: the recent recovery of yeast from jars of fermented chicha in Equador. New species of yeast, and not Sacch! How long til While Labs is selling it? :mug: http://io9.com/5886505/researchers-resurrect-new-species-of-life-from-ancient-andean-tomb...

I think I need to switch from a false bottom to a SS braid in MLT. The problem is the middle of my 10 gal round Igloo cooler is warping up a little bit, which has caused the false bottom to have difficulty setting down evenly. In my last few batches, grist has gotten underneath the false...

I'm using a pretty standard turkey fryer propane burner, and it worked well for the last 25 batches. About 5 or so batches ago, I noticed it was throwing a ton of soot onto the kettles, and the flame is very tall and yellow, not the nice mostly blue flame we're looking for. I haven't...

I'm looking for advice/suggestions on an easy/simple steps for installing a collar on a chest freezer that I just bought for a fermentation chamber. Here's a little back story: I bought a regular upright fridge for a fermentation chamber, that I recently converted into a kegerator. For a...

Here's something I've always wondered about, and I'd like to hear what HBTers think about this: What is the basis of people's refusal to drink anything but "their beer"? I usually encounter this attitude from Bud Miller Coors drinkers. You probably know what I'm talking about. There's...

I just got into kegging, putting together a bare bones setup with a CO2 tank, regulator, 5 gallon ball lock keg, and picnic tap. My first kegged batch started off good. Clean/santized keg, hooking up the gas, all that. I pressurized to 30 PSI, shook it up for a few minutes, let it sit for an...

I'm curious about how other homebrewers use their leftover or unused wort? Krausening? With cooking? If so, how and what recipe, did it work well, etc.? Here's how the question comes up. I was brewing an oatmeal stout last weekend, and had let my MLT continue to drain once I hit my desired...

I'd like to upgrade my brew pot from the 7.5g aluminum kettle I have now. I'm interested in a kettle or keggle around 15.5g with a spigot of some kind. Anywhere from Detroit-area to Jackson to Lansing is reasonable distance from where I am near Ann Arbor. What's for sale out there? :mug:

I came up with a plan for storing yeast, and I'd like some other brewers' input on it. I basically wanted to be able to keep yeast around, without having to buy a tube or smack pack every time I brew. I start with a normal starter in DME on a stir plate, usually between 1 and 2 liters based...