I thought that title would get a laugh! I always do brew in a bag in a 10-gallon Blichman. The last time I brewed about two months ago I remember washing out my bag with the garden hose after I had dumped all of the grain and then I always hang it up to dry on a couple of hooks near the area...

I brew about 6 times per year. I have been using the Big Mouth plastic fermenter. Works fine and I place it in a cheap dorm fridge with a Inkbird controller. I am feeling like I should probably replace this soon as it has 15 brews from me and unknown number from the guy I bought it from. I...

Haha. Turned out just fine. It's beer!

I don't think so as the tank pressure has not gone down that I can see. If there was a leak, I would assume the bottle would be empty by now after a week. It is just odd that I have pressure to dispense, but not enough to get decent carbonation. Maybe I will take it apart and reconnect?

Have done this many times previously. Flushed the keg with CO2. Transferred my English Brown Ale to my 5 gallon keg on Friday morning. Attached the tank and put it in my kegerator. I left it set at my usual 7-8 PSI as I found that gives me good serving carbonation. I had to travel so when I...

I live in MS. We have been without power for 5 days. I put an english brown ale with White Labs - English Ale Yeast WLP002 into fermenter on Jan 11. Had temp set for 66 degrees. Well on Jan 24 we lost power. It has not been frozen, but I bet it is down to 40s since. Hoping for power by...

I haven't brewed in 6 months. Lots of personal stuff going on. Finally got a chance to pull out my gear and clean everything off. Getting ready to have a brew day on Saturday or Sunday depending upon my honey-do list. Can't find my Brew bag. I have some vague memory that it had a couple small...

Good to know. I didn't think about waiting to dry hop until fermentation is over but I suppose at 5 days I'm pretty close. I did take a reading and it was close to done. So if you made the same recipe twice and one time you dry hopped for 2 days in the next for 3 days do you think you would...

Brewed the same recipe now for a 3rd time and I got to thinking. The recipe says to dry hop at 5 days. Should I have done that exactly at the same number of hours after brewing each time or am I over thinking this? Do professional brewers do everything exactly at the same timing each batch...

True. It does get pretty cool quickly with that plate chiller. Always been a little nervous to go straight to fermenter. I will try it next time.

I think I got it.

I can get down to 3 valves, but it seems like it should be 2. I have 2 sources (either from chiller or from pump). Would be great to have a simple T in there with one way valves to reduce hoses. They make those for beer?

I am using single Blichmann 10 gallon with boil coil doing BIAB. Have chugger pump and plate chiller, whirlpool port and ultimate sparge arm (yeah that is overkill for BIAB, but I owned it already and haven't researched a better solution for recirculation). Excuse the mess, but see attached...

I have one set of quick connect fittings that are an absolute nightmare to put on and take off (I have to tap the collar with a hammer). I have soaked them in hot water and PBW thinking there was beer/wort in them, but no change. Tried some keg lube on the ball bearings with not much change...

Finished up brewing last night. While whirlpooling, I typically pull my hop spider out so it is not in the way for the whirlpool action. It takes me probably 5 minutes for that to drain. It just drips. I got me thinking (this recipe only had 2 oz of hops). If it is only dripping because...