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If I were to buy a one tap kegerator that had the space to fit two corney kegs, is there a way to modify it for two tap handles?

Hey guys, I've home brewed a few times, and my boyfriend and I are looking to start kegging! Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best equipment to use? We are looking to stay around $400. Preferably, we'd like to be able to hook up two corney kegs in the kegerator at once. I've...

So I cracked open my first bottle of homebrew the other day and noticed it was a bit undercarbonated. It had been in bottles for about 1.5 weeks, so i think it was done carbonating, I just added a little less priming sugar (3.7oz instead of 5) since I was paranoid about bottle bombs. I can't...

My first beer, a milk stout, has been in bottles for 1.5 weeks (bottled last Sunday evening). I'm thinking about cracking the first one open tonight, as I just finished my last undergraduate final. It should be done carbonating by now right? I know it will get better with time, but it should...

I brewed the Brewer's Best Milk Stout a few weeks ago and it is now bottling day. I was reading up on how to prepare the priming sugar and I'm a little confused. The directions for the kit say to mix the priming sugar packet (5oz) with 2 cups of water and boil, whereas John Palmer's book...

So I realized that I let about 1.5 gallons of starsan solution (most of the volume being water of course) in my bottling bucket for 2 or so weeks. My tube to syphon from primary to bottling bucket was also in there (it floated but there was solution in maybe the bottom third of the tubing)...

Finally acquired enough empty bottles to bottle my first brew this weekend! I just have a few last minute questions: 1) I was wondering what you guys think the best way to sanitize the bottles is. Soak them in StarSan? Bake them in the oven for a while? Soak them in boiling water for a...

Yeah, I think I'll probably get a hydrometer eventually, just need to find one that isn't so fragile.

The mass of 1mL of water is 1g at room temperature by definition (it changes slowly enough with respect to temperature that a 20 degree swing in either direction is only about 0.001% off from 1g). The weight is just (mass)*(acceleration due to gravity) so (mass of sample)*(9.8m/s^2). However...

First off, thanks for the detailed response, airving. I'm a little confused though, when you say I'm not accounting for things in the beer (particles and whatnot) what do you mean? A lot of people take samples of the beer and put the hydrometer in the sample rather than the whole fermenter...

It's the same volume I used for beer and water, so it ends up canceling out of the equation since density is just mass/volume. Working with density it would be [(mass of beer)/(volume of beer sample)]/[(mass of water)/(volume of water sample)]. The scale gave me the mass of beer, the graduate...

Explain to me why this won't work. The specific gravity is just the ratio of the mass of the beer to the mass of water...I just filled the wort up to 40mL on the graduated cylinder and measured the mass. The mass of 40mL of water is obviously 40g, so just divide the masses and I got an SG of...

Ok so my hydrometer broke during brew day before I could actually use it (it was incredibly fragile and just snapped as I was lifting it). I read up some on it, and decided that I would try to use a scale instead (measuring equivalent volumes of water and beer to get the specific gravity)...

Thanks, I was trying to figure out whether I should get an auto-siphon or not, and it's looking like that won't be necessary. :ban:

So I have two 6.5 gallon buckets, each with a spigot (most basic MoreBeer starter kit). One is obviously being used as my primary fermenter, the other can be used as the bottling bucket. When it's time to bottle, can I just attach the 3/8'' tubing to the spigot and pour the beer from the...

Would racking half of it to secondary and leaving the rest in Primary be a terrible idea? I would be interested in trying them side by side but will the greater concentration of yeast per beer volume in the primary be bad? -Katie

Is transferring the beer to a secondary fermenter necessary or even helpful if I am not adding anything before bottling? It's a milk stout and there are no additions between beginning fermentation and adding the priming sugar right before bottling. I've looked at a few places to see what...

Out of curiosity, what happens if it doesn't start to bubble again? Could the yeast have died somehow?

Pitched the yeast at about 70 as well.

It's room temp and the apartment's been varying between 65 and 75. It's in a small closed closet so my guess is it doesn't actually get past 70 in there. I guess I'll clean the syphoning tube I have and lead it to my other 5 gallon bucket tomorrow and see what happens. I'm not as worried...