Recent content by Wingeezer

I lucked out and found a lab quality vacuum pump on sale at a local garage sale - cost me all of $3! The lady said she thought it was an aquarium pump - but it was not! Works great to degas my wines. When I first started using it, I did have some fear of maybe imploding the carboy, but not...

Nothing to do with beer, but a very common mistake that gets me is the misuse of the word "Calvary" instead of "Cavalry" (I'm a bit of a civil war nut as well as a beer nut, but not a religious nut!) I have even heard recognized history academics on Youtube confusing these two words...

it is pretty widely available - i believe Innovation Home Brewing in Windsor have it on their website. I have bought it at Canadian homebrewing Supplies in Brampton - they also have a website Brian.

Glad I am not the only one to have this problem, I tried my first vial of liquid yeast last week and did the same thing! In my case though I was in the process of adding the vial of yeast to a flask of starter - I just carried on and everything seems ok, fermentation is proceeding vigorously...