Recent content by drderelict

ok, a few things here. first, don't worry. chances are your beer is fine, provided you sanitized everything that came in contact with the wort/beer post-boil. fermentation itself will cause the temperature of the beer to rise, and if your kraeusen is blowing through the airlock then the yeasties...

i've kegged some beers at this approximate schedule and they've been fine. as long as you reached your target final gravity before you took your beer off the yeast cake you should be ok. the beer will continue to condition (albeit at a slower rate) while refrigerated/pressurized so you can...

i have a lot of Columbus and Calypso pellets and Super Galena leaf hops vacuum-packed in 1 and 2 oz packets in my freezer. all 3 are dual-purpose and high alpha. i'm mainly looking for dual-purpose or aroma hops other than the 7 C's, but will trade for anything that will diversify my hops portfolio.

i agree with all of tflew's points. another reason i like better bottles is the wider mouth, which is useful for dry-hopping. trying to get 4 oz of leaf hops or saturated bags of hydrated pellets out of a glass carboy is not fun. the suck-back issue is a bit of a problem, but you can find...

sorry to interject here, but this is so awesome it makes my heart hurt. i'm still using gravity and (considerable) brawn to move liquids around, but i truly envy the joy it must bring you to construct this from scratch. thanks for the ideas. keep calm and brew on.

welcome to your new obsession! glad to see you did some research prior to your first batch. i know several brewers (myself included) who relied solely on kits and kit instructions for a long time. palmer, hieronymus, papazian, steele, mosher, daniels etc. will give you the tools you need to make...

Hello, everybody. I've been reading and learning from these forums for about a year now and figured it was time to join up. I've recently (yesterday) pushed past the extract barrier, and still have a lot to learn, but I hope to offer to aspiring brewers the same kind of help and knowledge I've...