Recent content by Hopenstein

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I cut the dip tube on one of my kegs and wish I hadn't. If you don't cut it, you will just have to pour a couple of pints when you first tap it to get the gunk out, and then it will run crystal clear.

Look at BM's post regarding using gelatin finings when kegging your beer. I started using it and my beer is always super clear. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/gelatin-finings-53912/ "I use a tablespoon per five gallon batch. Mix it with hot tap water in a sauce pot, about 1 cup of...

So I brewed this today and it was my first 10 gallon batch. Everything was going well until I went to add my second addition of hops at 35 minutes. I realized that I had been looking at the 5 gallon recipe when I added my bittering hops at 55 minutes. So basically I added .25oz of the...

If you don't already have a hydrometer, you might as well get a refractometer. It's only cost a little more and is much easier to use. You may still want to get a hydrometer for post fermentation readings, but there are conversion charts you can use.

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For heat, I use the top of my dehydrator that I use to make jerky. It's the cheap round dehydrator. It basically circulates warm air around my freezer to kick the temp up when needed.

I get out of work in 8 minutes and I am going directly to Lowe's. I was looking online at drip trays and just couldn't convince myself to spend $30-$40 dollars on a drip tray. No more Home Depot buckets for me!!

Has anyone reused the yeast and just added wort and apple juice to a yeast cake from a previous batch that was just kegged?

I need one so I will have an excuse to buy a drill as well.

I always lift mine and can tell about how much is left.

I didn't make this, but picked it up the other day. Hopefully it will keep the scroungers out of my beer. Yes it is a turd.

Bruno doesn't fart so much, but he is definitely a drooler. Train - I am sorry about your bulldog..... My mother just lost hers last week. Try reading this, http://www.petloss.com/rainbowbridge.htm.

The liquor store by my house sells Grolsch singles for $2.39 or so... I pick up a couple every time I go there and save them to use for my homebrew. Pretty cheap for the beer and reusable bottle....

I've never used a bag, but I do use a secondary, so when I rack my beer into the secondary, the hops stay behind in the primary and my beer clears in the secondary. I have heard of people using the muslin bags for hops, but I do not have any input on that as I have never done it.