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Does anyone know where to get stainless steel push to connect fittings like the ones that Spike Brewing uses?

what to do with this? The fermentation was vigorous nothing too crazy but there was some overflow into the blow off tube. well life happened and by the time I got around to cleaning up and changing the air lock / blow off setup there was circular patterns in the tube and they stopped at the...

made an all grain oatmeal stout back on dec 13 with wlp007 dry English ale yeast in a starter of 1.3 L the og was 1.063 the resting G is 1.026 ten points high mashed at 156 degs F. I did O2 it for 1min and 30 sec. with pure O2 and stone tried to revive it with some old lalvin ec-1118 hydrated...

mashing as I type one question. at 45min took reading of ph and sg and iodine my sg was 1.068 and iodine indicated that conversion was complete then at 1 hour sg was up to 1.071 and then at 70 min was at 1.074. how come my sg keeps going up after iodine said that conversion was complete?

Some might already be doing this but if you are looking to reduce your lag time try this: I make yeast starter on stir plate 10 to 1 with dme 3 days in advance refridgerate the night before brew day. During brew session decant starter, let warmup to room temperature. When I take my hydrometer...

Looking for help and suggestions on building a temperature controlled mash tun. Would like to be able to do step mashing but most important is to hold the temp for the entire mashing session. 1st I’ve been reading a lot of the steam threads out there. Seems that it was a hot topic around 2007...

All of the carbing caculators will tell you the amount of sugar or what ever but don't say how much water to dissolve them into. I am going to make some test batches 3.5 gallons but also for general info on miscellaneous batch sizes how is the water calculated. Is it not that important just make...

does this look normal. that foam looks very thick and slimy all so was new after taking a S.G. reading on Sunday and took another reading to night to see if I am ready to bottle S.G. is steady at 1.012 since Sunday how long should I let the beer clear it is a pale ale that I made on Sunday the...

What do you all think I have a small chest freezer fermentation chamber and the space heater takes up too much room (can only get one bucket in so if I change the heat source I could get another in) so I was thinking of going with some flex watt stuff also the hair dryer could be a good option...

Hello all from a new brewer on the western slope of Colorado doing a lot of reading tons of great info and ideas thanks