Recent content by jcooper_87

this is why i joined this forum!

Guess that settles that. What did you do for a lid?

so the other day i bought a CO2 tank, hoses and regulator from a guy for $100; that was a score in itself. Then he threw in a half barrel keg, a drip tray, a coupler, and shank Double SCORE. I'm trying to move to all grain brewing and wanted to use the keg as a brew kettle. Would it be a good...

I guess I need to go get some keg lube, that seems to be the last resort...

So I just got my new tank a couple of days ago and it came pressurized. Now I'm ready to sanitize it before putting in my beer and I can't get it to pressurize in order to pump the solution through the hose. I can hear it leaking all around the the top but cannot figure out why. The keg is...

where at in MS? i live in Mobile and have never seen it locally

Thanks, I was concerned that my yeast would not be present and I'd just end up with sweet un carbonated beer.

I am new to this so forgive me if this is a dumb question. Does the yeast need to still be active in order for the priming sugar to be consumed and thus carbonate?