Recent content by nate0075

Thanks for all the posts, I'll address what Ive tried b/c Im baffled. First: Im a HUGE sani user. I never use bleach, I have two buckets strictly dedicated to Star San and PBW. My buddy is an engineer so we're really big into eliminating suspect for contamination which is why Im baffled. We've...

OK so I've Googled this and asked the guy at Rebelbrewer here in Nashville and no one has ever heard of this. I have a 3 keg keezer with Perlick taps. The last 3 beers I've tapped have spoiled. Thats the only way to describe it. They taste like chlorine. Yes chlorine, like pool water. Even has a...

OK fellow beer knerds, I bought two chest freezers last weekend and I need some assistance with the thermostats. One was converted with the wood collar into a kegerator. The other I was trying to use as a fermentation chiller. I finally finished, got my thermostats in the mail yesterday and have...

I'll def try the taping thing. I would chalk it up t a defective part, but there's two of them so Im assuming it must be user error and something Im not doing correctly.

OK fellow beer knerds, I bought two chest freezers last weekend and I need some assistance with the thermostats. One was converted with the wood collar into a kegerator. The other I was trying to use as a fermentation chiller. I finally finished, got my thermostats in the mail yesterday and have...

Just thought I'd pitch in here! I tried to up my eff as well about 10 batches ago and had tons of success with two rules. If you batch sparge (dump hot water in the mash tun and re drain all at once) then add 10% total weight to your base grains and MAYBE add a little to your specialty if you're...

LOL I just read all these responses so since this was an ordinary floating brew thermometer with red dye (as found in your friendly neighborhood brew store - shout out to All Seasons in Nashville), I figured I would let everyone know what my decision on this batch was. I did toss the beer and...

Thanks ladies and gents, I did look at those previous articles and I feel better about not being the only shmo to do this!

Yea I saw that too. I'm just very cautious since if I'm wrong, I get to drink some Mercury.

OK here's the scoop. Im an idiot and put a cold thermometer (the red floating ones you can find at any LHBS) into a still too hot pot of just boiled wort. I had my copper wort chiller running at the time. The pot's aluminum and if the thermometer uses mercury, which Im sure it does, its now in...

Thanks for all the tips, I think Im going to give it a shot! Just for curiosity, what happens if I keep recycling yeast the way Im doing it now?

Yea I had a buddy tell me to use tin foil, but then all these people who posted on the subject said they got fruit flies and it spoiled the beer. One was pretty extreme. See below https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/yellow-white-creepy-crawly-things-my-beer-130714/#post1467101 I may have to give...

Alrighty, Im going pick the brains of the best here at HBT. I've been reculturing yeast the sloppy way for a while now, getting about 5 good brew days out of recylcing the yeast before I wuss out and throw it out. Im afraid it's going to turn on me, get infected, etc and ruin a perfectly good...

That will definately do it! After two months...thats the taste. You're done. :)

Yea I gotta agree with broadbill, you didnt pitch nearly enough yeast. And Im not horribly fond of dry yeast to begin with. While the bubbler is not a great gauge for fermentation activity, on day 3-4 you should see SOMETHING as the CO2 output should be fairly high for all of that sugar being...