Recent content by The_Fledgling_Brewer

I'm in Nashville. Welcome. I haven't joined up with a club so I can't comment on that but I love Rebel Brewer for supplies. (All Seasons has been fine too but they're more pricey.) As for ready-made beer, there's Yazoo Brewing Co., with a taproom open Thurs.-Sat. They sell pints, growlers and...

I'm booked for that trip too. Really looking forward to it.

Expanding on what Edcculus said earlier in this thread: I purchased the following setup based on the recommendation of someone else on this board and I've been really pleased with it through three brew days so far (two extract, one all-grain). It's by the Thermapen people. This mini handheld...

double_e5: I think that is exactly what happened. I recently picked up a scale so next time I'll be doing it by weight for sure. To follow up, I moved the yeast starter to a warmer part of the house on Tuesday and woke Wednesday to lots of yeasty activity in the growler! So we just proceeded as...

Yes, the potential alcohol scale read close to 8% and the balling scale was around 15. Thanks for checking though. I appreciate the helpfulness.

FlySpargeVorlauf: We cooled the wort down to 70F, but we were using a brand new thermometer (uncalibrated... let's face it, this is turning into an embarrassing calamity of errors) so I suppose it could have been the wrong reading. springer: The reading is most likely at closer to 72F or so. I...

Just took delivery of my kegging setup and will be getting my CO2 tank filled tomorrow. I have been reading tons of very helpful threads about CO2 and racking beer and purging, etc., but I was hoping someone could give me some basic rules of thumb on the keg purging process specifically? When...

marubozo, we boiled the wort for 10 mins.

I did forget to mention that when we transferred the cool wort from the pot to the growler via a funnel, we went a little too fast and some of the wort foamed over from the growler. So we lost a bit of wort to the floor before pitching. I don't feel like that would make a difference but maybe...

Tomorrow a friend and I are brewing a Fat Tire clone ("Beer Captured" recipe, extract version, target O.G. of 1.048-1.050). We made a yeast starter yesterday afternoon. We used a propagator pack and followed the Wyeast starter recipe, 2 cups light DME with 2 liters of water, plus 1/4 tsp...

Sorry to hear that story and hope the surgery goes well. This just reinforces my then-slightly-wishy-washy decision to buy two 5 gal Better Bottles a few weeks ago. My brewing buddies still have quite a few glass ones. I'll be extra careful when handling. Thanks for the warning and recover quickly.

Seems like as good a place as any to make my first post. I've started brewing with five friends and almost a month ago we bottled a hefeweizen but added a lot of raspberry flavoring just before bottling (in addition to priming sugar). The bottles and one growler sat at room temp for five or six...