Recent content by carrsurf

hey Repo, i bought something similar a few months ago for brewing - was a 7 gal aluminum crab pot. ive noticed a very slight metallic smell to my first two brews that ive done. the smell is right when you put your nose up to the glass for a gulp. i dont taste it, just a slight smell. ive...

and this is the reason i keep coming back to these forums. always great info and insight. thanks.

yeah i will definitely give it time. Just threw me off a bit when i saw it on the bottom. thanks guys.

the wort was 74. i didnt rehydrate the yeast until it was 80 per the instructions. and im sure the temp of the rehydrated yeast only dropped a little bit from there, so im sure the two were not greater than 10 degrees difference. so what exactly does thermal shock do to the yeast? if that...

Hello All, New to the forum here but have gotten a ton of great info from you guys over the past few months for my first two extract brews. Thank you. I just brewed my third extract batch last night - a northern brewer "ace of spades" black ipa. This is the second time that i have used...