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Please help me diagnose a problem with my old chest freezer that I use for a fermentation chamber. The other day I noticed it was not cooling sufficiently. The interior back wall where the coolant passes through is warm except for the top left corner. When I plug in the device there is a...

I make big blocks of ice in my chest freezer/fermentation chamber before brew day to use in my recirculating counter flow chiller. However I need more ice surface area to make the water colder so I usually buy some bags of ice- that sucks. Why should I pay for frozen water? Does anyone have a...

I am stepping up the yeast from a 6er of bells two hearted. I'm concerned about infection because there is a spherical mass about half the size of a marble among the yeast. It looks like a cluster of yeast but I have never seen them together like that and I am concerned its another type of...

So I did not get the dudadiesel plate chiller I asked for, but I got the funds to get it myself and now I am having second thoughts about the proper equip for my garage brewery. Please help. I have been brewing for a year without a chiller (ice baths and no-chill), but I have upgraded...

Currently I have a fermentation chamber (freezer) with a temp controller in the garage, but no brew belt or such a device to keep the conditions from getting too cold. I live in southern CA so it doesn't get too cold, but it dips below 60 degrees in the chamber at night. I am upgrading the...

I am still in my first year of brewing and I have recently upgraded my kettle and purchased an outdoor burner for full-sized AG batches (5.5 for now) so there are no funds remaining for a fancy wort chiller so I am going to explore "no chill". Every time I look for info on the HDPE containers...

Yesterday I finished brewing an APA with a OG of 1.053. I pitched a 2L starter of yeast harvested from 2 bottles of AleSmith XPA (guessing it's WLP001). Within 3 hrs of pitching there were small bubbles in the blow off vessel. The bubbles have become constant- like an aquarium pump is running in...

I have brewed 4 batches since I started in January using Extract/Steeping/PM in a 5 gallon (canning) pot. I want to upgrade my pot to accommodate a full 6.5 gallon boil for AG brewing. I spotted a pot on craigslists for cheap, but it is a "Bayou Classic" 82 Qt stainless steel and I am not sure...