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Hello Booch Brewers! I've been making kombucha in 1 gallon jars for about 2 years, using daughters from my original SCOBY with great success. I usually let the tea ferment for three to four weeks as like my kombucha to be SOUR. Usually by the time it gets to the level of sour I like, I've...

Hi All! I'm interested in trying to make a berliner weiss using the sour wort method. I usually ferment in a wine fridge with a temp controller, using the fridge for cooling and a heating pad for warming. My question is, if I get the fridge chamber up to 120* for the souring process, is...

Hi Team! Anyone know if there is viable yeast in the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp beers? Anyone built up any from dregs? Thanks!

Hello all! I've just calmed down a bit and thought I'd share my experience w/ the HBT team. I was in my home office and smelled smoke. I went onto the back porch and saw a cardboard box smoldering, and then burst into flames. The sun was shinning through a carboy filled with PBW. The...

I need a little help determining what my options are for a brew-oops! I've got a Janet's Brown in secondary in a corny keg. I put it on the back porch for a couple of days before I planned to moved it to the kegerator to carb. I was planning on dry hopping in the keg, but had not added the...

I've been struggling to identify a very specific off flavor that is my plaguing brews and starting to really hammer my enthusiasm. My troubleshooting process as gone from looking at contamination, chlorine in my water, not properly rinsing PBW from carboy, pitching too little yeast, and...

Hello HBT! I did my first real AG batch on 2-24-2012. It was a BIAB version of Bee Cave Haus Pale Ale. Brew day went smoothly, hit all of my numbers, no spills, no burns, no homebrew inspired random additions - a great day! I use a wine fridge as a fermentation chamber. It held my...

Hello HBT!!! I use a wine fridge as a fermentation chamber and it works great - the only issue being I can only ferm one brew at a time. I've got a stout in there now and the recipe calls for 4 weeks in the primary. I understand temp control is key, but after fermentation is mostly done (say...

Hey All! I'm interested in brewing some 5 gallon batches of base beers, and then run some experiments by fermenting 1 gallon batches using different yeasts, fruits, dry hops, etc, etc... I have the ability to do full boils (Yea new Penrose Kettle!!!) and have only done a few AG brews via...

Here's the story... I recently brewed up a batch of Left Hand Milk Stout from an AHS mini-mash kit. Everything appeared to go well. I only had a couple beers during the session, was fairly attentive. The kit even came with a yeast nutrient tab, which I put in according to the directions at...

Hello All!!! I just found that my under-utilized wine cooler / mini fridge fits a carboy perfectly. It has a digital temp control a glass door and even a inside light that allows me to really see fermentation action without opening the unit. Great fermentation chamber!!! The only issue is the...

Hey All! I'm looking to purchase a secondary CO2 regulator. Something that will allow me to set different PSI to multiple kegs from a single CO2 tank. I know most of you have piles of misc equipment collecting dust. What could be more fun than thinning the pile AND delighting your SWMBO...

Hey all! I recently picked up a SWEEEEET craigslist two tap kegerator. In order to reduce the amount of (justifiable) grief I get from SWMBO for another CL acquisition I had to sell this as a "family kegerator!!!" One tap dedicated to support my brewing, and one for soda for the kiddies...

Happy Friday!!! I have access to a really cool old skool Pepsi refrigerator / cooler thingy. Looks kind of like a pinball machine with a top that slides open. I was hoping I could make a fun kegerator out of it. It would fit two cornys and a CO2 tank, but they would all have to be laying...