Recent content by Bioguy1975

Thanks everyone - good advice from all! Based on what I am seeing, 10 gal is the best way to go. Next step is the turkey fryer or bayou classic. I'm going to do a bit more research down these routes, and let everyone know what I do. Thanks!

Hi gang, After several partial boil extract batches, I am planning to change over to full boil. I'd like to get some recommendations from the group... 1. I'd like to go directly to a 10 gal brewpot; my intent is to boil 7 gallons starting volume to get 6 gal - 5.5 gal in my primary...

Granted I am a noob myself, but I have one primary and three secondaries, the plan being, that I can get a solid rotation going of fermentation, clarification, and bottling. So, mostly logistics. That being said, I am tremendously surprised by the amount of clarity I got on my first batch of...

Hey StevenR - just bottled my first brew, and like you, had some issues with brew day. The important thing though is to keep going with it, and see what happens when you are finished with bottling. For me, the most important thing was keeping a log book of everything I did, step by step...

Even though I only just bottled my first beer, I had tremendous success with clarity using a long primary and secondary. A quirk of bad scheduling left me with a 2 week primary fermentation, and nearly 3 weeks in my secondary. When I bottled yesterday, the beer was crystal-clear at 68degF.

I'd say my best practice thus far was the second 'fermentation' for clarity. I ended up with a very clear beer that looks great... let's just hope there are yeasties still alive for carbonation!

So, no major issues here, just a brief description of how it went. So, the morning of, I ran my bottles through the dishwasher, no soap, on high-temperature water. The cycle completed, I pulled the bottles out and allowed to cool to approximately room temperature. At the same time, I...

Thanks all for helping to put my mind at ease. :)

Quite a bit of variation! For the record, I use a 2 gallon boil. I start off with 2.5 gallons in the pot, knowing that 0.5 gallons will boil off. I will try some of these methods next time to see what happens.

.... airlock is back to normal now.... perhaps it has to deal with barometric pressure?

Ack, but I have a glass carboy. *facepalm* I'd go cry in my beer if I had any! :)

Hello again gang - So.... for extract brewing, when do you add your extract into the boil, in this case, a 60 minute boil? 0 minutes? 30 minutes? 55 minutes? For my first batch, I had to add 6.6 lbs of LME, so I added half at time zero, half at the end. I didn't like the syrupy-ness at...

Aha.... indeed this is an extract kit. For my procedure, I had 6.6 lbs of LME, added half at the beginning, and half near the end. Interesting... perhaps the subject of a new thread... :)

... I hear a lot of folks here subscribe to the 1 2 3 method: one week in primary, two weeks in secondary, 3 weeks in the bottle. I'd like to give that a try, but now I'm more like 2 weeks in primary, beginning my second week in secondary... :(

I have some really old Polish Rectified Spirits. Na Zdrovia!