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Awesome! I'll be ordering some of those check valves. Thanks for the help!

I just build my kegerator to a functional point. I still have some fascia to complete to make it pretty. I force carbonated two kegs at a buddy's house while constructing this. Here is the reason for my following question. I connected the gas line to the keg and heard a dripping noise...

I brewed an Oktoberfest partial mash kit from Midwest in February. (Febtoberfest?) When I bottled it 3 weeks ago, I sampled it and got a weird flavor. I just assumed it was green and went on bottling hoping for it to mellow out. This last weekend I opened a bottle and that flavor was still...

I got an email from northern brewer advertising their surplus of 5 gallon kegs. They have a special going on right now if you buy 4 of them. I just ordered their set of four and had a total w/ shipping of $87.98. Normally it would be $34.99 each +shipping for a total of around $150 for...

Bottles were conditioned around 60-70 degrees (temp of basement) for just over 4 weeks now. As far as taking OG before aeration: I haven't been doing full boils. So my aeration has been largely due to adding the boiled and cooled water to top off the batch. Using this technique, should I...

This batch is pretty effing good. It has a wonderful flavor but not as full as I would have liked. Definitely tastes better than the all extract kits I've sampled. Can really tell that the alcohol on it is lower. Also I tried the carb tabs. To find out which worked best for me, I put 4...

I ordered a sweet mead kit from midwest. It's been in primary for about 3 weeks now. Bubbling away about once every 10 seconds. The kit was 12lbs clover, nutrient, and I upgraded to White Labs Sweet Mead 720 pitchable tube. It took about a week to start bubbling and it's staying pretty...

It was the Berlin Wheat partial mash kit from midwest supplies. I'm not exactly sure about the grains. The recipe says 4 lbs. I had them in my cooler at about 154, which held pretty steady for about an hour. Then I batch sparged with 170 degree. Then added the quart of extract, hops, and...

Bottled last night. It smells delicious. I used the cooler with water and frozen water bottles method for temp control. It finished out around 1.01. I'm still trying to figure out what happened with the the original gravity and why it read as 1.03 rather than 1.04ish.

Outstanding! Thanks a bunch. Silly me, didn't even think to check the manufacturer's website. :drunk: P.S. I love this site.

I've done a search for this and found lots of "did I kill my yeast" and "should I have used liquid yeast" topics. I haven't found what I'm looking for yet. In those threads, I've read some people saying that the yeast doesn't really affect the flavor. Then others say that it does...

So far, my favorite beer is Franziskaner. I've tried several wheat beers and other beers labelled Bavarian or Belgian Wheat. None of these has the same subtle sweet full flavor that I get from a Franziskaner. My LHBS says he has a guy who swears by adding about an inch of a liqourice...

Update: Everything seemed to go smooth. However, I'm not sure if I have an accurate OG. I got 1.03. The recipe says between 1.042 and 1.046. I did aerate the crap out of it before I took the reading because I wasn't thinking. I'm not sure how much the extra gas in the mix affects the...

I haven't had a second opinion yet, so I'm not sure what's going on. Whether the aforementioned off-taste is subsiding or I am becoming acclimatized to it doesn't matter. I'm digging this batch.

After a fortunate misunderstanding in the ordering process, I am now making my first partial mash. Having helped with batches before but never ordered, I was under the impression that the term for the extract kits which happened to have 12 oz or so of grains was Partial Mash. I now know that I...

Thanks everyone for all of your info/suggestions so far. I'm really glad I found this forum. Almost everywhere esle I found on search engines did have some good information but it all led towards buying their specific product. It's nice to have a community who cares about helping people make...