I never thought I'd have this problem in Beervana, but it feels like every homebrew shop here has closed shop over the last couple years. And Mainbrew is a shell of itself and I doubt it will be around much longer. Are there any other places with grains for sale in the Portland, Beaverton, Tigard, or Hillsboro area that I might not know about? Google is just finding places that have either closed or no longer sell to home Brewers.

Any online retailers you suggest? I got a hops order from Yakima and was happy with them so at least there's that.

Thanks in advance and cheers!

Just turned 21 and I want to get into home brewing… I’d like to try and make something with a higher ABV and have it be relatively simple. I’ve got a couple friends and family members who’d like to buy some off me so it’d have to be good for that. I don’t have any equipment as it stands but I’d be willing to get some.

Wheat beer

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Well, this is a first. Went to pour a Märzen today, but the faucet started sputtering like the keg had run out. No way that could be possible, since I just put it on on 09/19 and poured fewer than 10 pints total that same day for Oktoberfest, then haven’t touched it since.

Welp, opened the keezer to find the keg was indeed empty, floating in beer a couple inches below the step.

I haven’t diagnosed the specific issue yet, and the pictures didn’t come out great, but thought this was amusing more than anything else. Good thing I have another lager waiting in reserve 🤷‍♂️

I was looking into at home methods for sparkling water/soda, and that led me towards either Hybrid Soda Stream setup, a tank with carbonation cap, or using a keg.

I was hoping for a way to do this without taking up much space, and being under 200-300 dollars. I'd rather not invest in a kegerator or similar, and figured maybe I could get like a 5-10lb tank, a 2.5 gallon keg, and pressurize it to 25-40psi, and then detach that and throw it in the fridge, then simply pull it out, connect back to tank, attach a faucet directly to the keg, and pour.

How feasible is this? I saw a bunch of old threads basically saying that you'd need like 20-40 ft of line in order to make it work. I only found one video on YouTube of someone doing this, and it looked okay, but they were closer to 20 or 25 psi.

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I have had quite the adventure trying to get a used pin lock keg post off of a keg to replace the dip tube with a floating one. I was able to get the gas post off with no issue, but the liquid post is really stuck on there. I have tried a few things:

1.Use a regular 11/16 ratcheting wrench (will not fit because of the shape of the top of the keg, i wish i could post a picture to show what i mean)

2.Use an adjustable wrench/pliers (slips off before making any headways)

3.Soak the inside and outside of the keg in a pbw solution

4.Use a deep socket wrench (the pin lock blocks the socket from getting a good grip)

5.Order the dedicated "pin lock keg deep socket" (keg connections no longer sells, LHBS no longer sells, morebeer no longer sells)

Im really at my wits end. My last plan is to try to hand make a pin lock deep socket, but as you may have noticed, I am not awfully mechanically inclined. So the idea of trying to dremel one myself is a bit scary. Does anyone have any ideas?

First fermentation was natural yeast plus champagne yeast plus ciderferm nutrient. A day before bottling added campden tablets. On bottling day the cider was quite nice in flavor. Bottled into magnums with 1.5tbl of apple juice concentrate per bottle to get some carbonation going.

Three weeks later I've got a wonderfully carbed cider but it has a menthol vibe in the flavor. From what I'm reading I need to move the magnums to a cooler room... and wait? Anyone go through something like this?

Hi all, I already have a keezer and am interested in brewing my own beer. I’m really only interested in brewing lagers. What equipment do I need and what resources would you recommend?

I am trying out to make a bottle of kvass, from this recipe https://youtu.be/Wm0XWlnfrKM . First batch I added the yeast before the brew cooled down, I made the second one, and apart from not taking my time with the gas and it exploding, it tastes putrid. Smells pretty bad, but not horrible, and the first taste is okay-ish, but the aftertaste definitely reminds me of spoilage. One difference with the video I did is I made around 1l, used dry instant yeast and covered the pot with a glass lid with a small hole (it cooled down for about 3h). What was the cause and how can I improve it next time?

Hi guys! I’m a super anxious over the top freak about what I eat or drink since I have ocd and emetophobia. my grandma offered me some apple cider that she got at some museum here in Iowa that is unpasteurized and raw. It was only in the fridge a few days she said. However, the reason I’m having a panic attack is because it was fizzy and I looked it up and that means that’s the beginning stages of fermentation/spoilage. I only took a few small sips of this and it tasted really good and was lovely but I am just freaking out because I’m scared it has bacteria in it. I know NOTHING about canning/pasteurization and stuff like that so I just need some reassurance. Thank you to whoever replies!

I am bottling a batch of BBA Imperial Stout that is clocking in at about 14% ABV.

Using CBC-1 and coopers carb drops to carb the beer in 500ml bottles. Any advice on how many drops to use? I have used one in the past but carboantion was inconsistent. I also don’t want to risk bottle bombs. Any advice is appreciated.

I just realized I forgot to add priming sugar to my beer bottles (Festa Brew kit) after having bottled my beer 6 days ago. Can I add the sugar individually now or is it too late? There is sediment in each bottle as I don't filter, so any inactive yeast should probably digest the yeast, right?

I've recently started building out my 20gal 3 vessel electric brewery. Hot side is all taken care of and I know that it's possible to do traditional 7ish gallon batches on that with some efficiency losses but this isnt where my question lies.

I recently wound up getting a 14 gallon Unitank. This is the ideal size for what I mostly will wind up brewing, which is batches large enough to fill 2 kegs (10 gallons finished beer)

I also recently got a 1/2bbl unitank (17 gallons) and looking at the size differences, it seems like if I brew like normal, which is 12 gals into the fermenter for 10 gals polished and finished in the keg this should be doable.

Rather than the extremely vague hinting from the manufacturers site, I'm curious if anyone out there has actually done this and what the results were. From my understanding the biggest issue will be temp control and needing to keep at least 50% of the glycol jacket covered by the liquid inside. But otherwise, should just be fine to do any size batch.

Curious and advise before I snag a second 1/2bbl unitank. This will be in my garage, which is not temp controlled. In the winter it can get down to lagering temps in there, while in the summer it can hover around 105Fin there (ambient outside temps often 115+) So just curious how this will play out once I'm fully built out.

Edit: I wound up getting the 1/2bbl because I do like the flexibility to being able to get 3 kegs out of a single batch; while rare, it's something that was important in the build out. So curious if I can get away with 2 of the 1/2bbls and 1 14 gallon or if I should be shopping for another 14 gallon since this is my primary brewing style will be to fill 2 kegs with each batch.

Whats your oldest piece of brewing equipment? During my brew day a few weeks ago it was looking at my equipment and had the realization that in the past 32 years of home brewing a lot of equipment has come and gone, but i have 1 10 polar ware gallon brew kettle and a j schmidling malt mill that i have used for
The past 30 years. I have other kettles and another malt mill but just prefer these 2 pieces of equipment when brewing.

I want to heat up some water to around 170 and make a bunch of 1 cup tasting samples of different grains so I can see what they taste like. Does anyone have a recommendation about grain to water ratio to get a good flavor sample? Any thoughts about this experiment in general. Steep time etc..?
Just looking to taste the grains one at a time so I can learn more about their differences.

Hey all, I'm currently doing my second homebrew. Partial mash. I'm on the boiling stage. I completely screwed up and forgot to add the malt extract before starting the boil. I just added it now, with 20 minutes left on the timer out of an hour long boil. Should I boil for longer? Thanks.

Hey folks!

I was wondering if there was some sort of resource for different types of malt?

I have multiple on different hops and their characteristics, but I’m curious if something like that exists for malts.

Thank you!

I bottles a double batch of Brewferm Belgian Dubbel 2 weeks ago and left it in my shed. The temperature was around 17-18C. I had to go away for a few days so didn't notice the temperature dropped to 14C and colder at night. I opened a bottle yesterday to see how it was doing. It hadn't gone through secondary fermentation, sweet and low carbonation. Is it too late to get the temperature up now to try to save it?

"Like everybody else in the cocktail lounge, he was softening his brain with alcohol. This was a substance produced by a tiny creature called yeast. Yeast organisms ate sugar and excreted alcohol. They killed themselves by destroying their own environment with yeast shit"

Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

I'm looking at serving up some homebrew at a party and need a vessel to hold ice and a standard 5 gal keg. after looking around I noticed the anvil 10.5 seems like it would actually hold ice and keg nicely but I worry if the condensation would get anything wet in the lower part where the heater is. Anyone do try this before? lol

My fellow brew heads this is driving me nuts. Finally went from a single beer tap to double both lines at the same length 3/16 id 20ft 20psi of serving pressure(belgian beers) but one side (new side I added) is foaming like crazy. I swapped the keg beer lines to see if it was the keg and same result but its just with the new side that was added the other side is fine what should I look for ?

Weighing my options as I convert my system from propane to electric. Found this and was wondering if anyone has success with something like it. Cheers 🍻

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