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I have some hops growing in my yard, this year they seemed to be growing slow, so i start looking in to why, and all new shoots are being eaten, by pill bugs, rolly pollies, or what ever you call them. any ideas on how to control them? or even prevent them, I use bark but this have never...

Hello all, I have a interesting question for you. I want to do some geothermal fermentation cooling my 3, 2bbl fermentors. I want to put a 1/3hp sump pump in my brewery to push water out of a RubberMade bucket thru a 1/2in garden hose, down a 25ft drop to some marsh area about 50ft away, here...

OK, I'm not sure from a distance what exactly it is? or how much it's worth? click for bigger pic's on each photo my friend who took the pics said it was for sale for about $500,it is a good deal or not? any help would be nice to ID it.. Thanks CR-

Being I just started using full size kegs for my primary fermentation, I just put a Kolsch I brewed in a keg, and then in to my ferm chamber at 60deg. I cant bloody see anything. I know that 2 weeks should be good, but I’m feeling like I should wait 3 weeks before crash cooling and then on to...

well i brewed 20 gal this weekend i did 10 gal of a Kolsch on Saturday. 81.9% eff and did 10 gal of a Shocktop on Sunday. 82.8% eff all i have to say is that's a lot of cleaning to do.. the Kolsch is in the ferm chamber and the shocktop is sitting next to the ferm chamber. MMmmm not...

this lady had 14 kegs for sale on Craigslist, I grabbed 2 of them, $30 bucks each. and one was still half full of BL, i poured that crap out asap. now i need for Brewers hardware to get the Sanke keg frem kits in stock. CR-

Ok, there is a fireplace insert store I have been talking to about getting the old gas valves that they throw away when they replace a old fireplace units. I said I would give them a 6pack of home brew for pulling these valves that are headed to the scrap yard, one man garbage is another gold…...

This weekend is BIG BREW, and so I’m heading over to a brew club members house where.... 1. He is on a well 2. He says its hard water 3. We don’t have a water profile. So what would you do to make sure the water of acceptable for a Blonde Ale. I have Burton brewing salts and ph5.2…...

OK I love my IPAs but I always seem to get knocked when judged for oxidized off flavor. when I currently dry hop I put my leaf hops in a bag, hang it in my keg and then fill keg with Co2 to push out the air, then slowly fill keg with beer from carboy. now I do it this way to let the Co2...

Well, today in the mail was the results from the first round of the National Homebrew Competition. for my IIPA i got a score of 30.5, i knew this batch wasn't as good as the last one which got a 38.5 in a different comp. and i got a 28 for my Old Ale, basically it was a SnowCap clone (but...

I brewed a IIPA, with a IBU of 119!!! Not one mistake (next time I'm hosed for saying that), I was aiming for 1.083 and I hit 1.084. I got 90.6% for Eff.. now the waiting.... So what did you brew and how'd it work out. CR-

Ok, Just going off what beersmith says on the timeline to keg/bottle your beer. I keg for reference. It says for single stage fermentation, 14 days in the primary, then 30 to age it at 65deg. It says for two stage fermentation, 4 days in the primary, then 10 days in the secondary...

Ok I need Ideas, I made a very nice pale ale, followed BeerSmith and kegged after 2 weeks. one of the few times I followed directions. ya bad me. now that it is carbonated and in kegs hooked up to my taps, yummy but Butterscotch is present in the aroma and on the tongue. I know why it...

Ok lessons learned, from Saturday brewing.. 1. Add rice hulls to every and all batches of beer being brewed 2. Stired grains can form like concrete after settling. 3. Zip tie the silicon hose to false bottom and to MLT wall spigot. If hose comes off false bottom, while stirring...

My eff was only 55% for a 10gal batch of WIT. My last 3 brew batches were all +/- a % point off of 55%, so at least I’m consistent. I found the option in beersmith for the mash in and then mash out option, and then to fly sparge. (not what I used for the WIT though, I used mash in then fly...

ok all, having done a few all grain batches, and I batch sparge, I'm looking at fly sparging. But i have a few ordering and time line questions. I have read that fly sparging will give a better efficiency then batch sparging. i also plan on doing "dough in" process, read that in the beersmith...

first off i make sure i start with full tanks... when i start up a single burner it sounds like a jet engine, but slowly over time (45min-1hr) the roar subsides to just a 1 inch flame with all the valves open? So when i get to the boiling of the Wort i have to change propane tanks and i...

Well today was the first All grain brew I have ever done. Everything went according to plan, sort-of… Since it was my first time I only did a 5 gal batch of a Scottish ale, this way if I really messed up, my cost of learning was minimal. A few things I did learn 1. Measure the water...