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I've got a Grainfather Connect for sale.. the latest version. Wife bought it for me for Christmas and I haven't even used it yet. I pulled it out of the box, out it together, and it's sat in my basement ever since. Make me an offer, they're $1,000 brand new I'd like to get around $800.. my loss...

Ok folks. I need a little help. I have tried my hand at Gimp, and while I can usually do "ok", I'm looking to do a little better than just "ok". This isn't a label for a beer, but a logo for a beer festival. (Mods, if this isn't ok, let me know, and I'm sorry in advance..) So, here's the...

A buddy and I brewed up a couple batches yesterday, this is his Dunkelweizen. OG 1.052, Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen. Pitched yeast at about 5:30 pm, last night, and this was at 10:00 this morning. Those are some happy yeast!! (Don't mind the toilet in the background, this is an old bathroom...

Just a quick question. I've got a nut brown ale, that has pecans in the recipe. It turned out amazing! I'm wanting to put it in a competition, and I just want to make sure I get the right category. I'm assuming it's going to be considered a specialty beer, due to the pecans. Is this correct? Or...

Hey everyone. Just bottled a batch of Pecan Nut Brown Ale, yesterday. I'm trying to design a label, but I'm having a hard time even coming up with a name for the beer. I'm thinking something along the lines of "Southern Belle", due to the fact that when I think of pecans, for some reason I...

Hello all. As the title suggests, this will be my first attempt at a sour. I'm trying to somewhat replicate Russian River's Temptation. I found this clone recipe on BYO: As I've never used Brett, Pedio, or Lacto before, is there anything I need to be aware of? The article mentions doing a...

I brewed up a Citra IPA about 4-5 months ago. I racked it into the secondary for dry hopping, and left it to set. Well, life got in the way, time got away from me, and now I have this beer, still in the secondary, 4-5 months later. My initial thought is to go ahead and dry hop again for about...

I'd like to try making a sour ale, but I'm not sure how to go about this. I recently brewed a blonde ale, to soon be racked onto strawberries for a Strawberry Blonde. I've done the recipe a few times and it's never dawned on me to try and sour it. (I did search the forum and found a similar...

This was an attempt to clone a Boulevard Brewing recipe for their Test Grape Nelson. I received their recipe from one of their brewers. It came close to theirs, but not an exact clone. It's still a very tasty beer! I would have liked it to be just a bit drier. Grain bill: 6.5# Pale malt...

Hopefully someone will be able to offer me some advice here. I'm making a grape ale and I'm wanting to use champagne yeast. Will 2 (5g) packets of dry champagne yeast be enough for a 1.054 beer?

Hey all. I brewed up a pretty tasty IPA a couple weeks ago and forced carbbed it this weekend. I drew my first pint and it was amazing! So, I decided I should enter it into a couple upcoming contests. I bottled 12 bottles, and put 4 in the fridge for a friend. I left the other 8 out, as 4 of...

A few weeks ago, my 10 year old son fell and busted his head open. I ended up spending 3 hours with my ex-wife in an emergency room with my son. In an attempt to avoid talking to my ex-wife, I decided to design a new beer. This is the beer that I designed, thus, I named it Noggin Splitter...

Hey winemakers, need some advice here. I'm brewing up a grape ale (trying to clone a professional brewery beer) and I have to add some Muscat grape juice to the wort prior to fermenting. I looked around a bit and found some Muscat grape juice from a Napa Valley vineyard. I went ahead and ordered...

Ok, so I'm not exactly mixing wort, but, I'm guessing there's a calculator somewhere for this, I just can't find one! Here's what I'm attempting. Trying to brew a grape ale, the fermentables are 75% pale malt and 25% grape juice. The OG needs to be at 1.040. (Trying to clone a beer here.) So, I...

Hey all. Quick question regarding Saflager 34/70. I had a recipe kit that I had ordered a couple months ago, a Noble Pils. Long story short, time got away from me and I didn't get it brewed as quickly as I thought I could. The liquid yeast that came with it was past the 6 month mark, and instead...

Brewed up a new recipe tonight, a Citra IPA. Everything was going swimmingly, hit my mash temp right on the money, no boil overs, it was just one of those great brew days.. and then.. the tubing on my immersion chiller blew off and started spewing water into my wort!!! FML!!! I had just replaced...

I've downloaded the Mr Malty app, and punched in my numbers for a starter. According to the app, my yeast is 44% viable. My OG is 1.058, so Mr. Malty says I need a 1L starter, and 2 packages of yeast (Wyeast Dennys Favorite). Well, I don't have 2 packages! Am I ok to go ahead and just make a 2L...

I've never made a starter, but I'm going to go ahead and start making them, because it appears that all the kool kids are doing it.. but, for some reason, I can't seem to wrap my tiny little brain around it! I just want to make sure I'm doing this right.. so any help is appreciated. I'm...

Hey everyone, never designed my own IPA recipe, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Any advice or suggestions are welcomed! Thanks!! 9# Two-row 2# White wheat 1# 60L Crystal .5# CaraPils .5 oz Citra @60 .5 oz Columbus @60 .25 oz Citra @30 .25 oz Columbus @30 .25 oz Citra @5 .5 oz Citra dry-hop...

So I recently purchased a dual keg/regulator kit from MWS. I kegged my first beer and turned it up to 30 psi over night. It wasn't quite like I wanted it, so I turned it down to 20 and left it over night again. The next day it was carbed just about right, so I turned it down to 8 psi, and left...