Recent content by AdamNYK

If you've got some time to kill, check out Leffe's website. They have a "Master Taster" who is this old guy that takes you through all the beers they make, with a little quiz about each beer. It's funny...and awesome. I love the face he makes when you get one wrong! Mmmm, this makes me...

Sorry for the delay in posting this guys....but I just got back from Mexico last night. It worked! I popped open one of my blle 1L flip-top bottles that had previously been flat, and it was perfectly carbonated! :mug: :rockin: :ban:

I did my little experiment 3 days ago....I want to give the beer 3 or 4 more days in the bottle before I open it. I'm actually going to Mexico for work for a few days, but will be back on Sunday. I'll crack open a brew on Sunday and will post to let you guys know how it worked. Adam

I hadn't boiled them prior, so that wasn't my previous problem. Boiling them was a recommendation from my local homebrew guy. He said it would cause the rubber to expand a little and give me a better seal. Hope he was right....I guess I'll know in a few more days.

Phew.....just got done with my carb-tabbing and re-capping. Out of the 8 bottles left, 3 of them were perfectly carbonated and gave a nice "pop" when I opened them, and the other 5 were duds....flatter than Cameron Diaz! (Although, as an aside, the rest of her is perfect.) It took about...

Awesome guys...thanks for the great advice. Experimentation starts tonight!

Thanks for the advice...besides the oxidation issue, re-racking them into other bottles would be a pain in the ass, so I think I'll go with the tabs. I'll let you know how I make out. The tough thing at this point is: Out of my 8 remaining bottles, I'm not sure what ones will be flat, and...

WingNut: There are just too many possibilities for why they didn't carbonate. It's likely the gaskets, or the little pre-drilled holes where the arms go, as TexLaw mentioned earlier. I’m sure you did everything else adequately. I’ve run into this problem before too, and every...

Ok....just brewed my first batch of beer this past weekend. (London Porter Clone). Everything went great, until I went to install the fermentation lock on my 6 gallon food-grade, well santized, pail. As I inserted the lock, the rubber gasket on the lid of the pail fell into the pitched...