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Also, it may be that the pressure on your CO2 tank is low and trying to feed it across three gas out valves doesn't hold up quite right? What if you shut another valve or two off and direct all of the pressure to the one that caused the clicking? Just a thought anyway.

I had a regulator do this to me once, but it was a cheap one that came with my keggerator. I ended up buying a new dual-pressure regulator so I could run different pressures on the two kegs that fit in my keggerator. The new regulator has no problems on either dial, so I know it had nothing to...

Very interesting podcast! I had almost questioned if I'd really added that many IBU's with just 5 extra minutes of boiltime or if there were variables that might make that number come out wrong. Without getting a definitive answer, this podcast mostly answered that question for me. I'm...

Hindsight, I wondered why I didn't spritz with starsan instead, but it is what it is. For the record, the 55 IBUs was what BeerSmith calculated was the increased IBU's just from the final (6 oz) "flameout" hop addition. The bittering hops added at the beginning, plus the hops to be added at 15...

Well, I had 15 minute, 5 minute and flame-out additions that were essentially changed to 20, 10, and 5 minute additions when I sanitized the chiller. Just the 6 oz that was added at 5 minutes theoretically added 55 IBUs because they were SUPPOSED to be flame-out hops, adding no IBUs at all. So...

So I had quite an interesting brew day the other day. It's one of those days where everything just isn't going to plan. I got a late start, had issues with my grain mill, then my drill battery for running the grain mill died, then my pump was locked up and wouldn't pump, then I realized I was...

Whoops. I totally did say 1 oz. StarSan to half keg (2.5 gal), but I meant .5 oz to half keg. I don't use StarSan at double strength. :)

Well, here's another couple of details. Keg "full" of StarSan is a bit of a stretch. I used 1 oz of StarStan and filled the keg half way, so it had oxygen in half the keg when I pushed it out, but I also installed new beer lines at the same time, and I ran a little bit of extra CO2 through the...

So, I just kegged a brew that I'm entering into a private homebrew competition. My first competition ever! I decided to attach the CO2 and shake to get some carbonation going quick since I want to taste in a day or two to know if it's worthy enough to enter, but I forgot to purge the keg's...

This is an awesome idea to try that I'd never even thought about! Thanks!

I wish I had written more numbers down in January, but I apparently didn't and thought I would remember them later. :( I know I mashed at 152 and it stayed there for about an hour and a half. By my calculations, it would have come out to about 8.6% ABV. Nowhere near the 10% I was really...

Hey all, I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout in November. I used a couple of recipes that had good ratings as guidelines in formulating my own recipe. It started with a gravity of 1.098 and finished with a gravity of around 1.036 (unfortunately, I didn't write the number down like I thought I...

I've got a stir starter myself. I believe it ran $40. I'd seen in a youtube video a guy using a stir starter. It's much less expensive than a brand name stir plate, that's for sure!!

I'm not much on the idea of adding champagne yeast. I don't want to dry it out. I was honestly hoping to not need to add nothing more at all, but I just don't want to get it all into bottles and then learn there's nothing there to carbonate it anymore. Maybe it would just take an extra few weeks?

So, I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout on November 21st, 2015 that has been sitting in the secondary for 5-6 weeks. I've been kegging this past year, but this one I plan to bottle since this batch will get drank pretty slow. My question is about the yeast. Do you think the yeast at the bottom...

I would take a reading with a hydrometer or run your refractometer readings through a refractometer calculator and see what you get. You might be done fermenting. From what I understand, the final gravity reading with a refractometer is never accurate by itself. Just Google "refractometer...

I'm really starting to think this is more normal now. Here's what it looks like this morning.

I'm guessing this was an extract batch, not an all-grain batch? If you're using a refractometer, the final gravity reading is skewed by alcohol, so you have to use a refractometer calculator to come to the actual final gravity. If this was an extract batch and you're taking hydrometer readings...

I haven't been taking ph. I'm still using bottled water for brew days, but I'm looking to start using city water. The water at our old apartments never tasted good, so I didn't want to use it, but in our new house, the water tastes great. I got a report from the city on the water from 2014...

This is primary fermentation just getting started, not secondary fermentation, so the CO2 production will push the oxygen out through the airlock. Have I misunderstood your concern? The way I understand it, headspace is not a problem for a beer that is actively releasing CO2. I will rack this...