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The next hop heads meeting will be on Sat November 9th. Please contact Danny Julian at [email protected] or me [email protected] for directions. You can also sign up at the groups webpage to get email updates for when we will be meeting...

Maverick who do you talk to about attending? I ask this because after chatting with some people last year i was under the impression that the Hollywood group didn't meet anymore. When I Google'd st marys Home brew group all I got was an old geocities page, it never a linked to the hopheads on...

Id be up for this. As I said in the other thread I am working and going to school all night so I might not be able to come to every meeting during semesters. If we are finally going to start an official one going I will try my hardest to make it to the first meeting. Im 26 and also work on...

This is a good idea, but I wont be able to participate until May. I am going for my EE degree at night while working as a drafter during the day. I run the old igloo 5gallon setup for all grain, and I am up for getting a club started.

That's is what I was saying is the poppets are not interchangeable I don't have the tube problems. Reasearch online says poppets are interchangeable but mine leak unless they are put back on the valve they came from. That's why I figured buying a new set of ball lock valves would fix my problem.

I also have a Firestone keg that the poppets are a pita. In fact you can't interchange them or the gas side leaks the purging co2 back out. I was planning on just replacing them with new ones. Is this a common Firestone issue I hadn't read about?

The internet equivalent of every running in and yelling NOOOOO!!!!

Always siphon after fermentation gas started. Your going to cause oxidation if you just pour. You want to oxygenate for yeast health when you add the yeast, but after fermentation has started oxygen is not your friend and can cause off flavors.

I have bought into the no longer using a secondary except for fruit and things, but dry hopping to me is just easier in the primary.

You can dry hop in your primary. Rule of thumb is make sure fermentation is complete before doing so.

I would argue your on the northern end. lol I live 10mins from chuck county line so I'm not way down there.

Bump because im having a hard time finding them down here as well(st.marys county resident). All I could find was SMASH and it looks like they dont exsist anymore.

I got the same kit for christmas. I don't think the beer is more than 4% avb. Did you take hydrometer readings? Were they stable over a couple days? 3 weeks in bottle is a pretty standard rule of thumb. The directions that come with the kit are not great. Hbt and youtube are your friend right...

This^ I served my coopers stout at my SB party, and my buddy who's a die hard BMC/doesn't even want to try craft beer drank them up. You never know whose eyes you will open I guess

Hey guys, I received a coopers kit from my wife for Christmas and I'm hooked. Just wanted to say thanks for all the info I got from stalking the site before my first batch.