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I don't know if anybody already used a bottling bucket spigot in building a mash tun, but I thought this was extremely easy and cheap to build. 1. Home Depot 5 gal cooler: $21.95, Home Depot 2. Bottling bucket spigot: $3.95, LHBS 3. 3/4 inch ss Water Heater Connector Line: $7.95, Home Depot 4...

My plan is to attempt to brew a 10 gal split batch IPA / Belgian IPA. The recipe for the IPA is quite simple, "classic" IPA with some 2-row, light crystal and CaraPils, and a bunch of American hops. The difference is that I'm going to split the batch into 2 fermentors and the "AIPA" side will...

'Yooper' added to Merriam-Webster thanks to Upper Peninsula man's 12-year effort: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/03/yooper_to_be_added_to_merriam-.html What's up Yooper? :D

This is what I'm going to cook this year for St. Patty's instead of Corned Beef: Irish Pork Stew w/Stout http://youtu.be/dZ_3xKZMOec

As the Oscar fever is approaching upon the media, I decided to start my own Oscars: the Oscars Of Home Brewing Videos. These videos aren't only from the past year, they are more like "Lifetime Achievements of Brewing Videos": Here is my list: 1. Easy All Grain Brewing by Don Osborne - Batch...

So I'm a lazy bum. That's why I'm thinking of doing a no-sparge and no-chill brew. Basically I just want to leave the hot brew outside overnight and rack it into the fermenter the next morning. Here is where I got some questions: how to do late hopping in no-chill? I think I would pitch the late...

I'm trying to clean up my brewing pantry. You tell me what to brew with these? This is what I got: 6# smoked (Weyermann) 1# biscuit 1# chocolate rye 1# black patent 1# Munich 1# roasted 1# carapils 2# crystal 0.5# chocolate 1# flaked rye 1# flaked buckwheat ~20# 2-row hops...

Do you guys usually throw in your black or chocolate malts or roasted barley at the beginning of the mash, I mean like together with the base malt, or at the end of mash time / or sparge?

If there are other threads about it, please merge this one. I used the HBT search engine before posting and found nothing. Guys from the BrewDog brewery from Scotland got a new show on Esquire TV. They will be traveling through the US micro breweries tasting and brewing beer. I think they...

"Beer belly: Man becomes drunk when stomach turns into brewery" Is it possible? They claim a man is making alcohol in his stomach! It seams like a crazy fake story, but it was put out by the CBS News. I thought they are a "real news" organization. I have double checked the date on the story...

I just wanted to share with you guys my system for priming, dry-hopping and using gelatin in kegs. Priming in a keg: I use flat 1/3 of a cup = 2.5 oz. = 70g of table sugar (not priming sugar) per keg. Dry hopping in a keg: use whole hops only (pellets don't work in a keg), in a large 5...

1. The Engineer likes to build spectacular brewing systems, RIMS, BRUTUS, all computerized, etc. Sometimes, the Engineer loves to build his brewing system more then brewing itself, and once the system is build, his love for Home Brewing kind of fades away... and the Engineer is stuck with a...

I'm thinking of getting a big bag of couscous from Costco. Is there any way I could also use it in the mash?

So usually I make 1 gal starters for my 10 gal batches. I want to start making All Grain yeast starters to save some cash. Here is the question: do I still have to boil the wort for 60 min, if I don't care for IBU's and hop utilization? Won't the wort be sterilized enough after only 10-20 min boil?

If I'm not mistaken, there should be a hop harvesting season in the Southern Hemisphere just about now (in April, am I right?) I just wonder if there is something similar to HopsDirect.com in AU/NZ? I wouldn't mind to get some fresh Australian/NZ hops in balk in April... :)

I have brewed a 10 gal batch of IPA and put it into two 5 gal fermenters. In one of them I pitched BRY-97 in the other one US-05. Both yeast were dehydrated and pitched in a standard way. US-05 started fermenting two hours after pitching. Bry-97 took 2 days (48 hours!) to show first signs of...

Just recently I've heard about this new (well, new to me) technique. You basically re-use hops from dry-hopping in one batch, as your bittering hops in the boil for the next batch. Have you guys heard anything like this before? And how would you calculate IBUs for the "re-used" hops? Is it a...

This is NOT a political discussion, so all the trolls get the hell out. Obama's WH Honey Porter Recipe calls for "10 HBUs bittering hops". How many IBU's is 10 HBU's?

Here is what I found in my local Dollar Tree. It's a 20 oz. English pint glass, same as I used to pay $6 to $12 for. I got 6 of them!

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