Recent content by geodave

Yep, total mistaken assumptions on my part, this is the email I got directly from Five Star: Dave, Always great to hear from home brewers working with Five Star items to make the finest beer on the planet! As specified on the label, the proper dilution of Saniclean is one ounce per...

pardon me for adding to the thousand posts on proper concentrations for sanitizer, but I've always sort of glanced around the boards because I routinely forget the amounts required to mix up a batch of sani-clean solution. Well today I finally look directly at the tech sheet and realize it's...

I haven't seen this addressed very often but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough; is it possible to make a draught tap from scratch? I've got a kegerator with just a cobra tap, very low tech but the proper towers are hilariously expensive around here. If I'm not interested in looks, can I...

Dang, it's the colour change I should be looking for? It's definitely a distinct butterscotch colour. I was totally expecting a krausen ring! That's fantastic. One more question; I intend to crash cool it in the fridge, extract the yeast and add to glycerin-vials for freezing...how long...

Hello, So due to poor planning I activated a smack pack and about a week went by without it being used, a day or two at the beginning spent at room temperature before I put it back in the fridge. Then after that week or so I made a starter at around 1.040, 2 quarts, and dumped in the...

Did you use the little packet of yeast that came with the kit? If so, it's possible that the packet was just super old and the yeast was barely viable. How strong was the fermentation in the primary?

Was he storing it in clear bottles exposed to light? Maybe it just skunked.

If your beer yeast starts autolyzing, because it's unhealthy, it will result in yeasty flavours in the beer. Another other option is that the beer is still green but with the length of time you've left it that's likely not the case. Was the beer agitated a lot in the primary after it began...

I'd make a starter today and leave it on the stir plate, but I have no extract and the dang stores are closed. Secondary question, not to hijack this ancient thread, but can I use liquid malt extract in a starter to equal effect? DME is super hard to find around here.

This is from forever ago, but: I broke the nutrient pack Saturday to do an all-grain batch, but this was our first batch and the mash tun we built was definitely faulty and needs to be fixed (permanently stuck sparge due to improper holes in the manifold). So I figure "I'll use the...

not to hijack this thread, but can I ask real quick if this is fraught with problems: Say I take a dirty primary covered in dried krausen, and soak with oxyclean. Once all the particles are gone, dump and rinse with water, then a vinegar solution to get rid of the salts left by the oxyclean...

Not too helpful a comment I'm afraid, but be aware that some percentage of the population is genetically predisposed to think cilantro tastes like rank, soapy crap =) I only mention it because I'm part of that minority. Having said that, don't think I'm hacking on your plan, it sounds damned...

Fantastic. I'll sink em in Sani-Clean for a few minutes and then use them to whirlpool. Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm sure my first thread is going to be a repeat of something well known, but as I'm just getting started I thought I'd ask: Cooling the brewpot after the boil, I've tried dunking the thing in a sink full of water and ice but in my small apartment it takes a while; immersion chillers...