Recent content by layne00

Thanks for all the responses. I assumed it was fine but appreciate the extra knowledge you have all passed on.

No problem. I appreciate your help and the thread. I used wyeast 1056 American ale.

No problem. Thanks for the help.

This may be a stupid question to you but that is why it is in the beginners forum. A simple "normal occurrence" or explanation would suffice.

Looking to see if anyone can tell what this is on top of my beer in my secondary. At first glance it looks like mold but when you look closer, you can tell that they are clusters of bubbles. Noticed them a day or two after I transferred to my secondary. Hopefully it is nothing bad. Thanks in...

Thanks guys. The tube is sitting plenty deep in some sanitizer solution so that shouldn't be a problem. After active termination, I tried switching to a airlock but the Star San I sprained on the bung made it slippery and with the added pressure from fermentation it keep causing it to slip out...

Quick question for the group. Is in okay to leave the blowoff tubing on my glass carboy for the entire fermentation duration or should I switch to an airlock after active fermentation is complete?

Doing a second step on my yeast starter tonight and have a quick question for the more seasoned brewer (doing my first tomorrow). According to yeastcalc.com, I was needing to do a 800 ml second step which I boiled tonight. When I poured the cooled wort onto my yeast cake, the volume only came to...

The recipe gives instructions for a partial boil. Once done boiling, it states to add water to the fermenter to bring the total volume up to 5 gallons. Is it typical to start with 5 gallons and be left with less or add more to the fermenter to have 5 gallons at the end? Will adding more water...

Getting ready to do my first batch this weekend. Could use some advise on a couple of issues on my mind. 1. I will be doing a 5 gallon batch and am already taking the boil off into consideration. Without any trub, my keggle leaves around a quarter of a gallon in the bottom due to the position...