Recent content by BUCKEYE1303

I had a thought and wanted to put this out there. Instead of putting my bottles in the dishwasher and subjecting them to the heating/cooling cycle and weakening the glass, what would be wrong with dunking them in the star san solution I use in my bottling bucket before bottling?

I had a SA break last night. I am pretty sure SA or Michelob bottles were also the culprit with the ones I gave away.

No, but I use my dishwasher.

No infection that I can tell. So what can I do to prevent it from occurring?

I am a little confused at the moment. I have had two different batches of beer with this problem. I gave my father in law a few bottles of a CDA and he mentioned that two bottles broke off on the neck about an inch from the cap upon opening. Yesterday, I was tasting my Witbier and the bottle...

I'm from Ohio. But I love Triumph Brewing and Brooklyn Brewery.

I am kinda ticked at my mistake. I was simply not paying attention while I was adding water and accounting for the ice volume (which coincidentally is almost a gallon). I have added ice from our ice maker before with seemingly no adverse affects. However, since this is my second brew, I have...

So I was making a BB IBA kit and I added ice to my wort to help cool it down. I transferred it to my primary and added my bottled water. Only I didn't stop at the five gallon mark like I should have and added almost six gallons of water to it. Obviously it got diluted since the OG was...

I had a guy working at my LHBS tell me extract w/grains is the same as partial mash. I really want to support the local guy but he is a)too expensive compared with Midwest or Northern Brewer and b) when asked about how to do a partial mash he told be that extract w/grains was the same thing. I...

hmmm....maybe I should stop talking about it to my coworkers. They might think the same thing. I am officially obsessed with the hobby. Just trying to figure out what to do now with my Oktoberfest bottled and an empty fermenter.

Does anyone have a good extract Sam Adams Noble Pils recipe? Thanks.

I'm sure this topic has been beat to death, but will star san foam on top of my beer in the secondary be an issue? I know people say to put the beer in with the foam but just wanted some reassurance. Prost! :mug:

Thanks for the quick responses.

Does anybody know how much Star San to use in a 16 oz spray bottle for a spray solution? Thanks

I just used regular sugar my wife bought for cooking for the priming. Be careful though, some seemed a little over carbonated. I never knew their accessories came from any place other than the mrbeer.com website. But the upgraded locking spigot and bottling wand will definately make your life...