Recent content by Jaybrew226

I'm hope someone knows what this is. My buddy finished brewing and after racking the finished beer started to soak his glass carboy with PBW. After an overnight soak he scrubbed the carboy and found these dark specks that were hard to the touch. They could be scrapped off with the fingernail but...

thanks for all the great suggestions. So i pressurized the keg to 12PSI and left it in the keezer. At the end of the next day it had some residual pressure but not a ton so I hit it again with the same 12PSI to bring it up. I checked it today and found it had lost most of the pressure. So this...

Here is what I'm doing and I wanted to bounce it off someone else. I want to brew a 5 gallon batch, keg it in my corny and evacuate the head-space of O2 with my CO2 tank. Leave the beer kegged and pressurized with 12PSI but not under constant pressure from the tank but just letting it come to...

Another question. Fermentation is almost done. I would suspect since the gravity was low and I pitched a good yeast starter that doesn't seem to out of the ordinary. Two days seem quick for fermentation to end. I observed fermentation start around 4 hrs after pitching. I looked this morning and...

OclairBrew, Thank you. My gravity was way low after the mash and I was scratching my head on what went wrong. I looked at the spent grains and it didnt match what John Palmer had in his How to Brew book. I was at least 5 points off or more. I havent had a chance to sit down and crunch the...

Thanks for the input guys. There was a large portion of the grain that was still intact. I could take one and push out all the stuff in the middle out. I'm not sure if people could see all three of my photos. I had a close up of the grains in my hand. how does the photo look here?

My first question is with the milled grain. I asked they guy at my LHBS if he could help me with my grain bill. He was nice enough and weighted it out and ran it though the mill. I didn't consider looking at it prior to mashing. After I mashed, I looked at the grain and it didn't seem crushed...

sounds good. Thanks for the advice.

JuanMoore, Thank you for that detailed response as it answer my question completely. I think I'll do the one primary regulator and then add a gas distributor for the other kegs later. One other question I have. I've found multiple answers for the amount of line resistance in 3/16in tubing...

I'm building my first keezer and I'm trying to wrap my mind around the tap pressure balancing act? It appears all beers have a different vol of CO2 that the style is carbed at? Could I skip the primary regulator and mount a 3-body secondary regulator inside the keezer. This way I could carb each...

I made my first batch of root beer today using Wintergreen leaves, Indian Sarsaparilla, Sarsaparilla Extract, 8 cups of sugar and a tsp of coopers ale yeast. Some questions came up and I hope someone can help me with this. I've done a handful of beer brews and this was much simpler. 1...

This was a recipe kit for a Portland Style Hefeweizen. I have two questions... after the aggressive fermentation subsides would you leave the blow off tube like I have it or move back to a standard air lock? Second, since this is a Hefeweizen and its suppose to be cloudy I don't see much use...

That was another issue I had. I cooled my partial boil of 2.5gal down to 98F and added my top off water which only brought down the total temp to 79-80F. I plugged the carboy and waited for about an hour to see what the temp dropped to and it was only down a couple degrees. So I pitched the...

Fermentation took off a lot quicker than my last batch. I checked in on it at around 7:30pm last night and it had a nice Krausen and at midnight the foam was coming up into the airlock. I transitioned to a blow off tube and woke up to the picture below. Should I change the water on this? I...

Do your guys starters always get a krausen on them? Mine was a little foamy but nothing crazy. I'm using one of those hard drive magnets on my stir plate and using a 2 inch stir bar. I think the stir bar might be too big. I have a 1 inch but it spins too fast and throws it. I think one issue is...