Recent content by mnpaddler

did you use a dry or liquid measuring cup...I found out that there is a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my 2 cents....forget the 5 gallon batches..it takes just as long to do 5 as it does 10 gallons.....we have all done some really wrong things and yet the vast majority of the time it will be drinkable! I buy yeast for a 5 gallon batch, but i make a starter and double the ingredients so I have a...

so, I find that if i punch a small pin hole in the top of the bottle cap, that the foam comes out really slow....by putting the bottle in the frodge for an hour on a plate, I find that i can remove the bottle cap and I only lost about an inch of beer to foam...I then put the bottle back into the...

Thanks for the advise......I really appreciate it....cheers

two things happened...this was a dry hop beer and during the transfer to my bottling bucket I noticed a lot of hoppy floaties in the beer....secondly I was getting interupted more times than I care to mention and I could have doubled the sugar? The extreme foaming has not changed since the...

I brewed 10 gallons of Stone Clone IPA yesterday. However there were no instructions on how long to wait before adding the dry hopp addition...my brewing friend suggested 10 days before adding the hopps. I typically wait 30 days from the day of brewing till the day of kegging/bottle. Can I wait...

I bottled five gallons of IPA and somehow I must have miss measured my sugar addition. When I try to open a cold bottle of the IPA (it has been 2 months since bottled) it starts to foam as soon as I slightly crack open the cap. If I allow it to steadily purge a little foam for about 1/2 hr or...

I hope you did not use a one gallon milk container for you gallon mesuremeant! If you did, you wiil be 3/4 to a cup short on each gallon measure....the gallon jug is filled and measured with cold milk......so by using a milk jug bought at the store to measue 5 gallons of water/beer......you will...

Thank you so much for the responses.....it is so nice to have a site like this where people are eager to help out us newbies....although i have been brewing around 15 years-sporatically-I am on my sixth batch of ALL GRAIN and loving it...so much more fun and so much more you can do with your...

On June 7th I brewed a 10 gallon batch of Stone IPA (clone) all grain. On June 14th I added 2 oz of Centennial for dry hopping to each fermenter. Today June 30 I kegged 5 gallons Question=does it hurt to let the wort ferment more than 10 days after you have dry hopped? On a reg beer (no...

OK, so I have checked several milk container companies and find that they chill the milk prior to bottling-so if you let the gallon adjust to room temperature it should re-coup the missing 1/3rd cup! Just as your brew kettle will measure a larger volume of wort when it is hot than it will once...

So I googled a gallon of water and found weights by water temperature and such, but I am still confused because a gallon of milk is still short 1/3rd of a cup when I use the same temp water. Also my brew pails are marked at 1,2,3,4,5 gallons and they all come up short when you fill it by using a...

I am confused. I used an empty milk container as a measure for a gallon and it comes out 1/3 of a cup short even when filled to the top. The milk container states 1-us gallon or 3.78 litres. I used a liquid measuring cup for the measurment. So I went back to the store and bought a plastic...

thank you for all the info...cheers

what makes a plastic pail a food grade pail? I have a 6 gallon white plastic pail that has markings on the bottom of ROPAK 4 and HDPE #2 inside of a recycle set of 3 arrows in a triangle. I want to use it for a brew pail as they want $20.00 for what looks like the same pail at the brew shop...