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Happy Mother's Day to all you brewing mom's out there. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor, kids and beer!!

Hello all, I use a keggle as my HLT. It has a HERMS coil and a 5500 watt ultra low density heating element installed with a weldless fitting. After about 6 months of use the element fried and upon closer inspection I found it to be coated with a thick solid coating of a white porcelain like...

Ok, so I made 15 gallons of a russian imperial stout yesterday that I have done several time in the past. The beer is bubbling away just fine, but when I swirled the carboy today it erupted and blew the airlock off and went crazy all over the counter it was on. I tried the same thing with the...

Hey all, I have a couple of 12oz bottles of goose island bourbon county stout that I would like to trade. If your interested let me know what you've got and maybe we can strike a deal. Keep in mind this is a very local beer, and it reasonably difficult for the locals to get.

So I made an American wheat last Sunday morning and accidentally forgot the yeast (meaning I didn't have any on hand and my LHBS was closed). I wasn't able to get to the store since and tonight when I checked the wort in the carboy it had erupted an was going to town! It look clean so far but...

The transformer coil on my contactor just gave up the ghost (died), and I have a big brew day scheduled tomorrow! Does any one know if I could temporarily substitute a DPDT switch in place of the contactor until I can get the part shipped to me? It would give me an the ability to turn off my...

So I haven't ever had any luck posting so far and I usually only get an answer or two, but here we go again maybe this time ill get a better response. I've been making a lot of mash paddles lately and I never use them (I teach wood working classes). I was thinking of asking my LHBS if they would...

Hey all, Anyone ever tried using maple sap instead of water? I'm going to make a maple wheat in the next week or so and was planning on starting with 9 gallons of sap heating up to mash temp pulling off about 4 gallons for the mash and then reducing the other 5 gallons down to to about 3. After...

So I got an email today from Arrowhead Hops, a small hop yard in central Iowa 30 minutes north of Des Moines. I was surprised because it was random and unsolicited. They were asking me if I wanted to purchase hop rhizomes for $2.50/per. Has anyone done business/ heard of them before? Are they...

Hey all, Just wondering if anybody had suggestions for building a 240v heat stick? I've built plenty of 120v heat stick but need more wattage now. Any suggestions? Any differences between 120v versions besides the obvious? Thanks!

Hello all, I had a question for those of you using 120v heat sticks. So I built a heat stick using a 1500w element and checked it for leaks and all that, and it worked well for a couple of brews but recently I started having problems. About 20-30 minutes into usage it trips my GFCI, I can take...