Recent content by Bob750

Impressive! Now I need to buy a house, so I build something like this!

After I built it and tested it, I moved and haven't yet had the chance to use it to actually make a starter. I'm looking forward to it though. I've resolved to brew more this year, so I'm sure it'll get a workout. I enclosed mine in a box that my other fan (for air circulation in my fermentation...

Brwmistr's suggestion to use copper might work better. Copper is a much better conductor of heat than stainless steel. If you attach or hold a hot implement to it, the heat wil readily travel down the tube and eventually melt a core in the concentrate, allowing you to pull it right out, like an...

Hypocrisy? Yes. Capitalism 101? Absolutely. Use the tools at your disposal to get what you can, while you can, nevermind what or whom you trample in the process. Then complain about the rules that prevent you from feeding your greed, or worse, limit your accrual of increased wealth and power.

Not likely. There are plenty of people who will still buy there. Plenty of people boycott places like WalMart and Sam's Club for the way they mistreat their employees, but they're not going out of business anytime soon.

Thanks for the reply, shortyz. Do I understand you correctly that you suggest that I re-bottle the leaky-cap bottles without new fizz drops? In other words, there is still enough "carbonation power" left in the beer to properly carbonate even if the 1st week's CO2 is gone? I just tested one of...

So how did it go?! Yesterday I opened a bottle from my first-ever batch after 7 days conditioning to test it out. (I got (8) 12-oz bottles out of a 1-gallon batch of a Pliny clone from NB.) It was flat and young still, but okay taste wise. I then discovered that the Abita bottles I reused...

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Well, after letting the forum sleep on it, it decided to put my double replies into the thread where they would have been without the delay. I guess I must have been clicking the submit button with the wrong amount of pressure. Maybe my mouse needs recalibration... More Beer For The Mouse!

test Seems ok now. Weird. Anyway. Thanks for looking into it!

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Thanks! Edit: I guess I can reply directly, but not via "quote..."

Thanks you for the quick and relieving reply! I'll leave it alone for a couple more weeks then and not worry about it! Since it got so warm in the first week would you suggest I just keep it at 73F or so for the rest of the time or would it like to be held lower for a week or so? Cheers!

Thank you for the prompt and stress-relieving reply! I'll let it be for another couple weeks before I bottle. I also plan on hiding the bottles from myself for at least 2 weeks before opening one. BevMo is pretty close if I get all shaky for good beer... ;-) So... just to be clear, I...

I'm fermenting my first-ever batch of beer using Northern Brewer's 1-gallon Small Batch Starter kit. It's "The Plinian Legacy" extract kit. I've been following the recipe instructions to the letter, and the only issues I've had since I started (boiled on Fri afternoon, July 24) is that more trub...