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Thanks for the replys. I think I will try that next time. I had never considered not using an airlock, but suppose the posative pressure once fermentation starts would prevent anything from getting inside. Just for the record, I have had the probe in the airlock with out the lid piece, and I...

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought it would fit through the hole in the airlock. I imagine space would be tight though and the likely hood of having some gunk come up during high krauzen and end up with a clog would be high. Never have any problems with that? Thanks for the idea!

Curious, anyone put their temperature control probe directly in the airlock? I would think it would get an accurate reading of the temp inside the bucket. The reason I don't want to tape it to the side of the bucket is that there is very little clearance in the refrigerator and this would put...

Thanks guys for the information. The conversion kit looks perfect for my situation, and for only $25. I appreciate the responses!

I have a 3 tap kegerator for cornys, but was thinking of buying a 15.5 gallon keg of Blue Moon as I love that beer and am too busy to brew for the time being. I've only ever seen the pump tap, picnic style on the big kegs. What kind of fittings do they use to hook up to co2 and a real tap?

Thanks for the relpys. I do try and brew fine craft beer, but this one seems to have some degree of infection. Tastes less than great, but not entirely terrible either. Therefore I won't be drinking this beer for taste and would feel stupid drinking through it if it was non alcoholic. When in...

I am drinking through five gallons of homebrew that seems to be a little infected. Im wondering if the bacteria is changing the abv in a negative way, wich would give me no incentive to drink it. I can't quite tell if its getting me drunk or not, because I can only have one pint between pints of...

Kinda what I figured. I guess it's easy/cheap enough to change out the grommets and hoses and save those ones for if I get another root beer keg. As always, I appreciate your responses.

I have a three tap kegorator and just filled one with a root beer for the first time. I remember having to change out all the rubber grommets when I first bought the keg and was wondering if I will need to do that after I kick this 5 gallons of root beer and go back to the good stuff. Also any...

My wife and I had this for breakfast one morning with bacon and dougnuts dipped in hot maple syrup! It was fun, but I don't feel the need to do it again.

Nice!

Thanks for the replies and I'm glad I posted this question before dumping the whole thing into my wort. Now I just need to figure out what to do with the rest of the yeast. el caro, you say I need to rinse the yeast bfore storing it? I guess I will look into doing something like that.

So I wanted to try using some yeast from my favorite micro brew pub and left a sterilized 64 oz growler with the brew master and he filled it half way full with a second generation N.W. ale yeast from thier scotch ale which happens to be my favorite beer they make. Now I wanted to use this for...

Cool. how much did the corking tool cost? I think I have about 10 or so belgian style bottles, I might want to try this at some point. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for all the responces. Edmanster you bring up a good point, I hadn't considered the 30 min. steep at flameout and how it might effect things. I will do away with that as well as use all wheat extract next time. Also I know a lot of AG wit recipes use specificly white wheat, has anyone...

I was wondering if it was something like that. Too bad too, because it's one of my favorite types of beer.

I have been brewing for over a year and can make some pretty good pale ales, pumpkin ale and chile pepper beers as well as a few other types, but have a tough time making a decent wit. Is it hard to do a good extract wit beer? Here is the last recipe I put togiether from a few different sources...

Thanks for the ideas. I think a whole serrano in each bottle would be way too hot for my liking, but maybe 1/4 pepper or something. As far as the partail mash, I have done a couple of those for my pumpkin beers. Thanks for the welcome, this site has been helpful allready and I'm sure I will...

I live in the suburbs of Seattle and have been brewing for about 6 months. I did a few kits from my local homebrew store which turned out really good and then started using recipes and lately making my own recipes. My favorite is pumpkin beer and after a pretty bad batch last time, I made some...