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I am working on an art piece and I'm trying to find the most succinct way of visually conveying beer fermentation through a chemical formula. Is there a way of doing this, or would any formula just generally refer to fermentation? If I use the formula for maltose does that clarify it? For...

Hello I have had it in my head for a while that one of the biggest improvements I could imagine for my brewery is to wake up on brewday with water heated and ready to mash in. It could save me about an hour and a half and make the first part of the day much quicker to set up and walk away...

i've been thinking about this one for a while. it's essentially an imperial version of my rye altbier with the american ale yeast. Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.24 gal Estimated OG: 1.083 SG Estimated Color: 21.6 SRM Estimated...

Ingredients: ------------ Amount Item Type % or IBU 5.50 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 50.23 % 2.25 lb Rye Malt (4.7 SRM) Grain 20.55 % 1.50 lb...

texas summer is approaching. i need to get a more efficient chilling method in place to conserve water and save time. i'm currently using a 50' copper immersion chiller with a pond pump and ice water. if i go with a whirlpool setup, i need to buy a pump. that's more than the cost of a...

hey all last month i picked nearly 100 pounds of pears from some neglected trees. they are cored and sliced and frozen. i'm trying to find the best method for turning these into something drinkable. i have a decent juicer but that will eat up a lot of time. i'm considering just mushing them...

i just pulled a carbonated sample from a keg of blonde ale that ended up with terrible efficiency on brewday. the flavor is immensely bland, probably due to the low gravity. i'm thinking about throwing in a can of raspberry puree to at least make it worth putting on tap. i can't see any downside...

i brew all grain and i really want to do a small batch berliner weiss. i was thinking about doing an extract version so it's a quick and easy brew day (less than an hour with a 15 minute boil) with minimal cleanup. i figure since most of the flavor in the style comes from the yeast, i might be...

austin has just enacted stage 2 water restrictions. i'm starting to worry that my brewing so regularly (every two weeks) is unethical, and considering cutting back. i already don't water my lawn or most of my plants, and don't own a car to wash, so maybe i'm justified in using my ration for...

this is copied from my blog post (hands-on/home-made: some brewery projects). none of these projects are particularly novel, but i figured i'd post them anyway. they're pretty much self-explanatory, but if you want a write-up let me know. first, my fermentation chamber. this is a fridge...

is my imagination getting the best of me? Jack Daniels Used Whiskey Barrel Wood Chips smoke the malt with some chips, then add some unsmoked chips to secondary? dig around that site for a while and see how wild your brew list gets.

i have a peach wine that i'm making, and i have the peaches soaking in a campden-tablet solution (1 per gallon). there is a small white film forming over the surface. it looks like very fine strands of white hair, or thin cheesecloth. is this at all normal? should i rack it, dump it, add more...

I just bought a new ranco controller to replace on that I dropped which was malfunctioning. It was sending power to the freezer but not cutting off at all. I wired up the new one and am now having the same problem. My guess is that my wiring is off, but it looks like the diagrams I've followed...

I am a huge fan of hazelnuts, but I can't stand the artificial flavor of hazelnut extract (notable in Rogue's Hazelnut Brown Nectar). My lady wanted a hazelnut beer for her birthday, so I brewed this up. The grain bill started as a mild ale that I was planning to brew. I was running out of...

i'm toying around with the idea of a small version of the belgian dark strong category. basically i would take something like a quad and halve the gravity. i feel like quads can often be cloying and hot, so a smaller version might be able to retain some of the complexity without becoming...

i had a porter on tap (something like the edmund fitzgerald clone in the recipe section) that started developing some soapy off-flavors. i think i left it in contact with the yeast a bit too long. early last week i cold-steeped 1/8 of a pound of allegro (whole foods brand) mocha java in a pint...

i've been using a standard water filter canister housing (morebeer item FIL32A) and had no problems for 5 or so brew sessions. yesterday when i went to fill my HLT the canister was leaking uncontrollably where the bottom and top piece meet. nothing seems to be chipped and the leak is even all...

i picked up a cheap heating pad at walgreen's for my fermentation chamber, but i didn't realize that it does not turn on automatically when it's plugged in. i'll have it hooked up to a plug-in thermostat, so this won't work. can i just splice the wire before and after the on/off switch? is...

Digital Readout Thermometer w/36" Waterproof Probe NEW - eBay (item 280267788939 end time Feb-13-09 06:46:40 PST) thinking about getting this instead of paying $50 with shipping for the traceable. any comments? my self-waterproofed "meat" thermometers are crapping out on me, so i want to...