Recent content by Dotneck

I haven't brewed in a couple years but a buddy of mine wanted to try a batch. he took a class and bought a kit...Nut Brown Ale...brewing went fine. Cooled the wart and put in the yeast...shake, shake shake...then took a sample and sealed up the bucket. The original SG was 1.052. Good. But the...

Will I still need to worry about the temperature as it sits over the next couple weeks? Its already getting warm...no way I'll be able to keep it at 70 degrees while I'm gone....

OK...youse guys are right (not that I had any doubt...that's why I asked.) I opened the bucket and there was the Kraussen all over the inside walls. Took a cupful (with a starsan sprayed cup) and dumped it into the hygro tube. 1.012. Started out at 1.052. So something's been happening in...

Yes it was the water for the yeast hydration that sat 20 minutes...the wort went into an ice bath...never even considered that water too warm could harm the yeast... This is just batch #5 for me...and I asked the question because it is acting so different from the first four. I'll check the...

I was worried that maybe the water was too hot..never considered monitoring the temp...it sat there off the burner about 20 minutes...I was just worried that maybe it was too hot. I usually pitch the dry yeast into the wort. The instructions on this kit said to rehydrate..."boil...

First...before I ask I'm going to relax and have a homebrew... Now...that's better. I brewed an Oatmeal Stout on Sunday night. I usually see activity in my airlock by the next morning. So far its Thursday and nothing is going on... I usually add a dry yeast to the wort...(S-05??) but...

Guys at my LHBS said to give the bottles a little shake after a week or so.... What think yee about that technique?

do the home depot buckets have lids? Wonder if they have them at Lowes (thats a lot closer than Home depot...). I'd hate to just go in and look around...I might end up buying a drill or a saw that I'll never use.... :D

I hate my HOA association too. They are a PIA although they have not tried to get me to stop brewing yet. So far, I've been doing extract on the stove top...but I recently just bought a turkey fryer and I was thinking about moving out to the deck...I'd rather brew on the deck than in my...

Interesting hand/sanitizer story. I had an infection on my finger. Had a hangnail that got infected...it was swollen and purple...I was about to go to the doctor for an antibiotic...then it was brewday. Don't know if it was the result of Star-san (probably) or getting my hands in the steam...

What kind of paper do they print on?

I'd like to go...been in Raleigh four years and never been there before....how hard is it to get tickets?

I've been known to pluck a few...just for fun. Here are some of my favorites...mostly play flatops anymore but once in a while I fire up the Dotneck with a blackface Princeton Reverb...

yup...I thought of that but didn't have one handy...so I just filled the bucket in the morning, went to church and did all our Sunday stuff....and by the time I was ready to brew it was eight hours later...I'll be more deliberate for the next batch. BTW...the IPA smells GREAT and the air lick...

I hate the water from our tap...but my wife says its fine. I've used bottled spring water when I make coffee and can taste the bad water in coffees in particular restaurants. got to the point where I avaid buying coffee when I go to certain places for breakfast. So I've been experiementing...