Recent content by kcweazle

Did you mix the top off water in well? Probably just wasn't mixed well enough And got a watered down reading. Just my thought.

Good choice. You will love it. :)

I get great results from a false bottom and it will last forever.

I'm tired of my wife complaining about my crusty and smelly boys. Please help a fellow out. :)

My wife got laid off from work and I have a hard enough time trying to save for ingredients much less any new supplies. We are only buying gifts for our daughter this year for Christmas because we can't afford to buy gifts for each other. I have been wanting one of these for a while now but...

I use a freezer with a temp controller and put a small container of DampRid inside the freezer to take care of any moisture that might build up. My freezer is always dry now. I sometimes would have problems with mold starting to form from the dampness of the freezer before I started using the...

A false bottom works great in the round Rubbermaid coolers.

Exactly! then what is the point of a test since they have bigger things to worry about? How about giving a new employee a list of what beers they sell and everything that they feel you should know about them to help sell the product. Maybe a reference card or something they can take home or...

It doesn't really seem like much of a test if you are allowed to bring it home and have someone else do it for you or allow you to google the answers. I wonder how many of the people working there actually did this and still know nothing about beer.

The carboy I use is 6.5 gallons and I have needed a blowoff tube every time since using nutrient and starters.

Every since I have started using yeast nutrient and making starters (about 8 batches) I have had to use a blowoff tube every time. I just consider it the norm now.

I use an air compressor to blow dry the inside of my tubing and racking canes after washing them. I also push air through my copper immersion chiller and pre-chiller to dry them out as well for storage. It works great if you have an air compressor handy to use.

There is very little chance that you have any viable liquid yeast left. I plugged in the numbers on the Mr Malty pitching calculator and after 1 year it only shows 1% of the yeast being viable. The only way to know for sure is to make a starter but I wouldn't bother if it were me. I would just...

Zero for me so far. Lucky I guess.

I use one of those foam stoppers on my flask and it works great. That would keep the flies out while still letting filtered air back in.