Recent content by bmberger21

Hey all. I’m a previous beer home brewer with a 10 gallon stainless steel kettle that I have laying around here. According to the website I ordered it from, northern brewer, it is made of 201 SS for the walls of the vessel and 410 SS for the bottom of the vessel. I know 304 SS and 316 SS are the...

Hey all. I’m a previous beer home brewer with a 10 gallon stainless steel kettle that I have laying around here. According to the website I ordered it from, northern brewer, it is made of 201 SS for the walls of the vessel and 410 SS for the bottom of the vessel. I know 304 SS and 316 SS are...

Excellent. Thanks for all the responses fellas.

Hi all, As the title lends, I am thinking of transferring an IPA from my carboy straight to an empty, 'unclean', keg that just kicked last night. There was a pale ale in the keg before. Would there be any issue with this? I mean I wouldn't wanna do this every time but I'm going from a pale...

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any issue with oxidation in their experience with a double dry hop addition in a ferment bucket without purging it either time with CO2. I have never had any issue with a single dry hop addition, but I was wondering about a double dry hop addition...

Nice day_tripper. Where do you find this nylon mesh?

I will be siphoning my first sour that I added about 5 lbs of muscadine grapes to. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on siphoning off of fruit to avoid getting any debris in the keg. Also, I do not plan on cold crashing.

So all that worry was for nothing. It dropped to 1.012. All good! Thanks again for all the tips!

Thanks for all the replies fellas! I would say after everything everyone had to say I will probably just bottle this one w/o adding anything other than priming sugar. It has only been sitting for 5 weeks and it has WLP001 in it so I will probably let it fly.

I am going to be bottling a relatively high OG (1.084) Russian Imperial Stout this coming weekend. I have read places where people tend to add additional yeast along with their corn sugar, or sugar of choice, at bottling time with higher OG beers. I mostly keg now and am not too familiar with...

I don't normally check the specific gravity towards the end of primary fermentation (i.e. 3 days into ferment), but this wlp002 had me nervous. I didn't pay much attention to its attenuation profile and realized its not much of an attenuator. All that said I checked the gravity with a wine...

Thanks again fellas for all the feedback. Its neat to see that some people are having the similar results (i.e. that this thing truly drops like a stone). I guess I should have paid a bit more attention to the attenuation percentages for this yeast. I have since roused up the yeast and bumped...

Thanks for the replies fellas. BrewerBrad82, my mash was 152 for an hour. Mostly MO malt with a touch of crystal. Pretty basic ESB. I know that ESB is usually a bit sweet in the finish, but it seems like attenuation for that WLP002 yeast is pretty lousy. My main concern is that on top of...

So I brewed an ESB last Saturday, 7/30/2016. Everything went well. Hit OG of 1.054. I made a half gallon yeast starter the night before with WLP002, no stir plate, but plenty of shaking and agitation. I never really agitate or shake my actual beer that I am fermenting and always get great...

So I just pitched wlp001 into my starter and looked into the bottom of the yeast package and found that it was still full of yeast stuck to the bottom. I shook the crap out of it before I opened it in anticipation of that happening but apparently that wasn't good enough. What do I do? Did I...