This is what we did. We also bottled it, so we still have some a couple years later. The hops have mellowed over time though.

I drilled a hole in the bottom of my fridge near the compressor to run my gas hose into the fridge. I carbonate and serve from the same reg. I set it high for carbonate, and disconnect the serving keg when carbonating. I add CO2 to the serving keg as needed, but I can usually serve a pint or 2...

We use a home-made counterflow chiller and some ali-express solar hot-water pumps, and we get from boiling to pitch temp in one pass, we just adjust the wort flow rate to get the desired temp. In the winter, the water is much colder here, so we can flow at a higher rate. One draw-back to a...

We had something similar happen to a couple batches, we changed primary fermenters and made sure that we fermented at the proper temperature and it hasn't happened since. We hypothesize that the slow yeast growth from the cool room in the basement allowed the other bugs to get a head start.

We bought some rice hulls when we started all-grain brewing and haven't used any yet, nor have we had any issues with a stuck mash (yet). I feel like having rice hulls on-hand has been cheap insurance.

Hello all, We have a gas-fired brewing system with a water cooler mash tun, and we would like to do a white IPA, and have read that we need to do a step-mash or a decoction mash, but I would like to hear from others who have tried either of these in the past before we commit to trying one of...