is this possible? could i just put a tiny lump of dry ice in each bottle and then cap it?
i used to make dry ice bombs when i was younger. i know this could end very very badly.
but it might work... in principle i dont see why it wouldnt work. it would be hard to get the right amount of...
i live in texas so summer a/c bills can be pretty high.
i dont want to invest in a mini fridge for my fermenting buckets/carboys
whats the cheapest easiest way to keep my brew cool (while fermenting)
right now im fermenting at about 73.... this seems like a bad idea..
thank you
to cool my wort faster and to add water (extract brewing) i prefreeze 2 gallons of ice.
after the boil i just dump the ice into the wort to cool it and bring it up to working volume.
i have yet to try the beer but i have used this method twice.
is it a bad idea?
i just bottle and carbonate like a newb.
corn sugar or whatever to prime it and i just shove it in some bottles.
i've been waiting 3 weeks for it to carbonate...
is that too long? or too short.
they're definitely carbonated after 3 weeks but could i open them sooner?
ok 24 hours since pitching the yeast into the wort. liquid yeast.
should it take this long? this is my third batch... the first ale started bubbling in about 18 hours
my second hefe took about 5 hours.
this guy is taking so long. if i shake the bucket lots of CO2 comes out....but if...
so...i'm a beginner.
say i didnt want to have to buy yeast everytime i wanted to brew. could i use 90% of the yeast in my beer...save 10% and grow more from that 10%...i.e. could i just make some sugar water and have my little yeasties grow in my fridge?
...how hard is kegging?bottling seems like it will get really old really fast.
how expensive/labor intensive/ time consuming/ beneficial is kegging compared to bottling?
i dont want to spend a lot of money.
i've been cooling my wort in a bath tub with a few ice cubes in it (my tray doesnt hold that many). the wort cools to about 97F in about 15 minutes and seems to stop...
1) is there a better way i should do this? rather...given my current equipment...
so it seems i loose a lot of beer everytime i siphon from primary to secondary and then secondary to bottling.. im trying to avoid sucking up the little yeasties and crap at the bottom of the vessels .....but in doing so i lose about half an inch (times surface area = volume) of liquid. thats...