Glass Carboy is typcially used as a secondary vessel. The reason that I see this as the typical use is because of the small diameter of the neck of the carboy. Can you imagine trying to clean all the trub out of a carboy that was used for a primary fermenter.
The ale pale being used as the...
I love that sweet alchohol smell from the airlock. I frequently go over and get a whiff of it when I come home from work in the evenings.
I am weird I guess.
So I have bottled my first brew that I housed in my new 6 gallon conical fermenter.
Looking back on the entire process, I have mixed emotions about going from what I used to do...from Primary bucket---Secondary Carboy---Bottling Bucket---Bottle
To...
The conical system way....
Let me...
This post is about 5 posts late, but I wanted to introduce myself.
I am a firefighter/medic in the Northeast Ohio area. I am 31 and have been married for 1 year.
I have been brewing for about 5 years on and off. As of late I have gotten back into brewing more on a bi-weekly basis...
how do you know how much air/gas mixture you should have? Is there a paticular flame color you need?
I had my flap opened up all the way on the burner. So it was getting as much air as the setup could handle.
I could adjust it so that the flap was closed more, but I when i do that it...
I somehow successfully ruined my wifes new stainless steel gas oven. I was boiling about 3 gallons of water on the stove top, when I got done making the wart, I removed the pot, only to find that the grates on the top of the stove had mini pin sized bubbles all over the grates that sit above...
i just popped a package of Belgian Abby Yeast 2 weeks ago. It was the smack pack...I smacked it, and after abotu 5 hours it didn't rise either...
I pitched it into the wart...
It didn't get working real fast until about 3 days...
Then my fermenter practically blew up...
Give it time..