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Greetings! I’m getting back into the hobby after 4.5 years due to a move which took away my brewing space. As such, I purchased a load of equipment from a former home brewer. I’m cleaning everything metal and replacing everything non-metal. One thing included was a 1.5” TC sight glass…but the...

I've finally pulled the trigger and decided to get into Electric Brewing. We have relocated so I haven't brewed in quite a while, as space has been limited. Now that I'm close to finishing a shop/brewery, I decided to ease into the electric brewing world. I have a 30 A 125v NEMA-L30R...

Never again. It sounds like WW3 inside the cooler I'm using to pasteurize. I'm glad I chose to use the cooler method rather than the stovetop method. I'm also only using 150* water, which according to the charts I've read, should be sufficient if held at 10 minutes. I also preheated the bottles...

I kegged some beer yesterday in a keg I haven't used before. I came in this afternoon to the smell of stale beer and discovered about two bottles worth of beer all over the bottom of the fridge. There is still CO2 in the bottle and beer in the keg. What could have happened?

Today was a Murphy's Law kind of day. I won't go into my internet connection crapping the bed or the issues I've had with my swimming pool equipment since this is a home brewing site. I've been unable to brew for a couple months and my last keg kicked over a week ago, so I was bound and...

My wife has started helping me some with brewing. I was out of town for over a week, and I had a batch that needed dry hopping. Massive dry hopping. I sent her the instructions and she followed them exactly except the whole thing about putting the pellets in one of the little mesh bags I had...

Well, after a looooong hiatus from kegging, I finally decided to start up again. When I first started, I had major problems with foaming using my picnic tap, but after swapping out to 3/16" lines (about 8.5 ft), all was well. I finally decided to break down and buy some faucets, and after 20...

I'm needing to build a confetti cannon. I've done this before, but with a full sized SCBA tank w/ regulator and some jury rigged fittings on the hose, which went into a flat PVC end cap on the pressure chamber. I want to use a 5 lb CO2 tank and my Taprite regulator. I prefer not to use a tire...

Does anyone know why many lambic bottles are so thick? What size caps do the standard ones need (Oude Gueuze, Lindemans, etc.)? I have a couple and would like to reuse them. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I have a Belgian strong that finished (?) fermentation. I checked gravity twice over three days, and it was stable and as predicted (12% alcohol on the nose). I began to cold condition at 51F (ten weeks). I'm into week three of the conditioning, and I need to use my ferm chamber to control the...

Topic should say: Pre-boil vs Original Gravity How can my pre-boil gravity be too low according to Beer Alchemy, but my OG be a point higher than predicted? Volumes were the same as predicted--I didn't boil off more than planned and I actually ended up with slightly less wort due to grain...

So I'm sitting here brewing an IIPA, and hop additions are plentiful and frequent. I put all of my hop pellets in a jar to make it easier to pour some out when it is time to add some. I also had a jar of planters peanuts to snack on while boiling. I have also had a few home brews. And I'm...

I ran into a scheduling issue where I did not get to add gelatin finings until I needed to bottle. Earlier would have been too soon, and bottling later would have been way too late (or so I thought...then snowmageddon). Anyway, I added it to the bottling bucket with priming sugar. I just put...

I want to replace the thermostat on my upright freezer with a digital controller, but I'm not sure from the diagram how to wire it. I know, for example, that if I use the STC-1000, I have to switch the hot leg. However, on the diagram posted, I'm unsure if there is a neutral at the thermostat or...

I have never had a sour beer. I had the chance to buy a Gueuze Cuvée Rene today, but at $6.50 for a 12 oz, I wanted to do some digging and see if there was a good chance of me enjoying it. When I looked it up it had a great rating from the rating sites...but upon reading the comments I saw...

I am getting too much foam using picnic taps on my kegs. The lines and taps are inside a refrigerator with the kegs, so I know they aren't too warm. I have 10 feet of 3/16" ID tubing for each keg with both regulators set at 12 psi. Still, the beer rushes into the glass (even when holding it over...

I had never used S-04 before for some reason...I know it says extremely high flocculation and that it forms a compact sediment, but this last batch was the first time I literally had to scrape the sediment off the bottom of the fermenter. It was literally like putty and came out in one...

http://youtu.be/S4rGBbq7Y-E Anyone ever seen this? It just keeps spinning.

Hello all...I've just started kegging, and I want to use the set and forget method. My refrigerator is 42 degrees, so the chart tells me I need to set my pressure at roughly 14.5 PSI to get 2.6 volumes. Each day I check it, and the pressure has dropped a couple PSI. Is this normal? Part of me...

I'll never use it again. I have read many threads with people who love this yeast, but I have also read many stating that it takes forever to finish. Wyeast says it works quickly, but that has not been the experience of myself and several others. I'm OCD about my process, from sanitizing to...