Recent content by bobbrewedit

I'm still not sure I buy it. Granted, people have had them break, glass breaks. But I usually fill one 12 oz cheapie plastic water bottle with each batch, the kind with the tiny white cap. I've never even had one of those fail.

A hundred times huh. Caps aside, my understanding of when bottles break, it's usually in a closet or wherever they are stored for fermentation. Hundreds of people have had glass carboys break on them as well, yet hundreds of thousands still use them. It's up to the OP to decide I guess.

Had this tonight...awesome beer in my opinion. Too many 8% IPA's taste like syrup. This has a clean easy drinking appeal that I have to appreciate. Decent hop aroma without the long drawn out bitterness. I'll slam a Pliny with the best of them, but this was a deferent animal. A+ IMO

I've bottled in a grolsch style growler with no problems. Never in a plain growler though so I cannot comment there.

Strange,you were using the brush on the inside and the glass shattered inward. Wonder what caused the obvious pre-existing flaw. Glad you're okay.

Something tells me you've already decided to dump it. I would not, but I've not had the experiences you had.

My only issue would be adding priming sugar, but if you're not using sugar I think you'll be fine.

I would be interested as well, but I'm in Northern California.

Dude. You can't be dunking nuts in the fermenter...per SWMBO they are impossible to sanitize.

+1. Time clears beer, not racking.

I agree 100%. While I nearly always make a starter, it's far from being a must! Plenty of awesome beers have been brewed without a starter.

If I could do it again, I would use the 13/16" strut for the vertical pieces. For a 5 gallon system, I'd bet you could use it for the whole thing. Figure you wouldn't span more than 18-20 inches with it. Head to the hardware store and see if you can bend a 2' piece! In all seriousness...

Welp, I would leave it, or go buy some long tweezers (not very expensive) and pull it out. Either way, no biggie brother.

I use an 8 gal HLT, a 12 gal cooler and a 10 gal kettle. I fly sparge using a float valve in the tun.

Hmmm, I guess it might get loud enough to matter, but a mere fish tank is louder. Either way, I would not be afraid to run an empty airlock during fermentation. After a week or so, fill it with vodka, it will be mostly done bubbling by then.