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So I am going to brew a lambic/american wild ale. That being said i'm going to fill a 59gl wine barrel by myself. I plan on doing two double brew day of 11gl batches of about 1.072 wort. So i will end up with 44gallons of 1.072 wort. I will then delude the wort with about 12 gallons of water...

So I recently had to heat up 6 gallons of water, and thought it would be a good time to do a comparison on propane usage between the bg-14 and the bg-10 burners. Everything I have read its that the bg-14 burners are gas hogs but will heat up liquid very fast. I use a bg-10 burner for my HLT...

I just listened to the new Sunday session where the brewer from flat tail brewing was talking about sour beers and different techniques when making sour beers. One technique that I had never heard befor was steeping some rolled oats in the wort when it is at 180 degrees, extracting the starches...

Is brewing your own beer really worth the money and time????. let assume i drink $10 a 6pk beers....I have a all grain system that i have spent $1500 on total... each beer from the liquor store is going to cost $10/$6 = $1.66 a beer . how many beers does it take to re-coupe $1500/$1.66=...

Hey HBT, just wanted to show a little project i just finished. You can get the basic idea from the pictures but i took a nylon strap and some nylon string(found in the beading/hobby section of walmart) and sewed this up today. It took me about 2hours to make, if you had a sewing machine it...

I really like the idea of all gravity systems, but i dont like how tall they are. I also dont want to use a pump. I found my inspiration from Bernie Brewer rig https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/show-us-your-sculpture-brew-rig-46578/index10.html also got some ideas from...

So i just built a stir plate and had only used it once(with great results.) So i decided to try to propagate/harvest some yeast from a commercial bottle(Race 5 ipa one 22oz bottle). I carefully poured the beer in to my glass then left about 3-4 oz of beer in the bottle and let it sit at room...

So i have to say that Avery is my favorite brewery in the world!! That is a bold statement i know. I'm a Colorado native that loves micro brews.. I spent one week in Oregon and drank a ton of absolute great beers. It was a real eye opener. I have brewed a few beers and noting have reached...

So I'm looking into buying a few lbs of hops this fall when the new crops are available. I just got into brewing and really haven't brewed enough to figure out what hops I like and what I don't. That being said I plan on brewing a lot of APA and IPA's and would like to have 5-6 variates of hops...

So i was planning on doing my first AG brew this week. Then i realized that every time i step outside its like living in a freaking snow globe. My neighbors 30ft cotton wood tree is on overtime puking out cotton seeds. I was planning on brewing in my garage with my garage door open for...