Recent content by bkirkland

I don't use secondary's anymore crash cool and keg... Unless I wanna add fruit or oak. But I don't very often.

Ok, I have a few friends that love my beer and after some long discussion the question was raised. Can you add MJ to beer? Of course you can! Will it have any medicinal affects? When to add MJ is the question? I'm not too thrilled with the idea but it is a valid question.

Yea I use glass fermenters and have a four tap kegerator I've been brewing for a few yrs and I never was told to keep separate equipment. Just clean with PBW or oxy clean and sanitize ... No issues at my place! Don't worrie drink a home brew

That's pretty cool looking! Post a finish product pic!

You can make mead with the wife's pots and pans... Wait till your buying 2800$ fermenters... Lol Welcome to HB from SoCal.. HB on IPhone

I only flip it cause I'm under the impression that the gas will sit on top of the beer and slowly soak into the beer... Where's if I flip the keg upside down and shake it it will allow the gas to naturally rise throu the beer and then flip it again and the gas will rise again throu The beer...

I dry hop in secondary for 3 days the crash cool for three then if needed I'll add hops to a hop bag and just leave it! My beer don't last long! HB on IPhone

Getting beer in the gas side only happened twice . both times I left the beer on 35-40 psi... Having the gas valve off on that particular line will allow some beer to escape. You are right about over filling The keg.. I'm a hm brewer I want every last drop...lol.. Maybe it's because after...

Not sure here what you are saying here either, but if you hit the flat beer with an over-pressure it also helps to force more gas into solution faster. One would want to over-pressure at first and then set the regulator for wanted pressure later on to make sure you get the CO2 volumes right...

I hit it with 40 psi.. And I release it before j hook my gas side up otherwise you send beer in your hose... HB on IPhone

You need to flip the keg over and get the gas under the beer... Then rock the beer gently for 30 min... then flip it back over and fridge for an hr... In a few days it will be perfect, but it's carb enough to try!.. HB on IPhone

When the only thing keeping you from brewing is space!

Not true! i racked on sour yeast 1 1/2 yrs ago there's a ton of yeast at the bottom of Carboy , the chips were completely covered in the cake. as I stated, when I added the chips the beer was at 42-48f... My only question was is it because I added at colder temps that my chips fell to the...

Not toasted! I doubt even if they were,the chips ended up in the cake! Killing all oak characters!

I added oak chips to the secondary. I did the Last part of secondary in the refrigerator and I got no oak flavor in the finished beer.I added 1oz French chips per 5g for 30 days or so. I did however noticed the chips dropped into the yeast cake... Should I add oak at warmer temps? Anyone else...