Recent content by GABrewboy

Thanks for the help!!! I do have a few hydrometers and will take the reading in a a few days. I do have a freezer with a temp control, problem is it's in my garage where it gets colder and the temp controller is for lagering and doesn't warm. So I guess a little off flavor might be what I...

I am using the Spiced Holiday Ale recipe from this months's BYO magazine, just curious though if racking and bottling just after fermentation is complete is an okay thing like they say to do? One more thing, the yeast I am using is White Labs London and optimum fermentation temp is 67-71, my...

I racked my beer over to secondary and have it in my ice box at a constant 69 degree temp. I am seeing little white bubbles on the top of the beer, this isn't a bacteria is it? I am getting a little fermentation still, so could these bubbles be from this fermentation and these bubbles coming...

What exactly is a randall? Never heard of that before....

Yep, tried 3 bottles now and they all just suck!!! Nasty......I would rather eat cardboard and drink straight tequila......:O

YUCK!! Well then this beer might be going to the trash.......

Hmmmm.....well maybe I stirred it too vigorously! That could be the only cause because I use only glass and I know I didn't shake or rattle the brew around before bottling.......This taste won't subside at all either will it?

The beer that I bottled 3 weeks ago now I just tasted, it has a taste of wet cardboard.....why? I did the same exact thing that I have always done with my brew sessions, bottling, racking over and so forth. This is an off taste because of too much oxygen being put into the brew after it has...

Okay, I will try to push the hose on further and see what happens then!!! Thanks so much for the advice.

Okay, well let me ask this then!! When the water is running out, should there be air in the hose with the water.....almost making a gurggling sound and you can see air bubbles? Because that's how the water is running out.....if this isn't supposed to happen, how or why am I getting air in the...

Okay, let me try that then I guess.....I only had it maybe a foot below the cooler.....the hose dangling that is!

What kind of hose? I have a piece of 1/2" tubing attached to the ball valve on the outside of the cooler.

Well then I just don't get it because I thought a lot of people said that holes drilled worked well?

Well I drilled the holes, so not sure how they can be cut to deep as I just penetrated the copper to make the hole. They are facing downward and I am using 3/4" plastic tubing attached to the spigot on the outside of the cooler.

Well there shouldn't be any chunks as I have a paints strain bag around my manifold......:) Thanks for the advice!!!!