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Interesting. I'm planning on drinking them quick, but I may keep the cake and just see what happens pitching it again. I was more worried about how quick it took off than anything else...haven't seen that happen very often at 36 hours. Thanks for the info, never worked with Brett, or any...

Heritage I think this happened to me also. I posted in the wild brewing forum a very similar tale. I will often pull my second runnings for a starter, that way it's ready when my wort is chilled to pitching temp, just boil it, chill it and set it aside while my carboy chills in the fridge. But I...

The keggle is welded and wort is transferred via ball valve. I cover the top opening during transfer, but isn't realistic to cover during chilling, immersion chiller.

On Saturday I brewed two beers, as usual, the first an IPA, 1.078 with 4 oz of hops, chilled with wort chiller to 80, put in sanitized carboy and covered with sanitized foil and left to chill in my fridge. The 2nd a hef went through the same process. Normally it isn't a rainy day, but that day...

So I tried this. I bought two ten pound bags of wunder grains. One bag had a considerable amount of dark and crystal malts, and oatmeal, probably a quarter of the bag. The other was mostly lighter malts and I think a little munich malt, from what I could tell. I also picked up 9 packs of the...

Cool, thanks for the encouragement. I'll bite the bullet and brew some up and post my results. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I used the crayola window crayons for a while, years back. Works fine, washes off easy, just scrub with a dish pad or whatever. Some I never scrubbed still read like they did when I bottled them, two years ago now. Now I just use a fine point sharpie on the cap, I have up on appearances for now...

Yeah, it's the shot in the dark, but only ten pounds of mixed grains, not the kit which comes with extract. It sounds cool, I just wondered, since someone is buying them, how the beers have turned out. I'm almost more interested in hearing a horror story than a positive one, just to see what I...

Yeah, I don't think you can get them except for in store purchase. I believe it's orders that were never picked up or messed up orders, or maybe just random grains that are milled and packaged in ten pound bags. When you walk in they are usually just piled up, sometimes there's like ten bags...

I've seen these for a while in the Austin homebrew shop, and have always been curious about them. I'm really tempted to pick some up and just roll the dice. Anyone had experience with them before? I'm also tempted just to get the magic hop dust packs and really throw caution to the wind. If...

From Austin I really like the one they call Zoe and alteration from hops and grain. Every beer they make is fantastic. Circle brewing's envy is great. There are a ton of great beers in Austin. Velvet hammer is easily my favorite beer in Dallas, though I enjoy most of the beers from peticolas...

Cool. I've never had a bottle infection, and your sanitation process is way more thorough than mine is. Hope it works out. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I'd run a test and put a couple bottles in the fridge for a week. Then slowly pry open the cap just a bit to let the gas escape. Recap it, I use the same caps, then put it back in the fridge for day or so and let it settle, repeat a few times and see if that helps. Do you stir the solution in or...

Is it possible you are over carbing your bottles? I did that with an ESB ad had a similar experience, gushing continuously, thin and had extreme carbonic bite. I degassed the rest of the batch carefully and tried them again later as it was fine. Also, do you cover your bottling bucket during...

This may be the simplest option. Haha, thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Thanks for the responses guys. I may end up doing the secondary on the zest. I just wondered if the oils from the zest would be steeped out at say 180 F as the priming solution cooled, rather than 2-4 days in a secondary at 72 F. Sounds like I may need to split this batch and experiment...

I've been searching for this for a couple of days on line, but haven't found the response I'm looking for, per se. I have a blonde ale finishing up and wanted to add some kind of fruit to it to give some to my wife, she is not a fan of beer really but will drink fruity beers and dos Equis with...

I also drink my failures. In a strange way I find it comforting. I realize what I did and make the necessary changes. I also make notes of how that beer changes as it ages, I have some that I just can't really get through, like almost a year old. I don't brew very often anymore, since the new...

I too have had problems with the auto siphon. I spent a day with a carboy filled with water using it to get it to work, and I thought I had it down, then when I went to transfer my beer to the bottling bucket I couldn't get it started. So what I do now and have been doing for the last 5 or so...

Totally rack it into the carboy. I carbed bottles individually once with sugar and got pretty inconsistent results. I've never used the priming tablets, so I can't speak for those, but I know I'd rather be sure that my priming solution was properly mixed with the whole batch of beer. Sent from...