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If your kit only came with a single rubber O-ring, make sure you put it on the inside of your cooler. I put my own valve together using plumbing parts, and went ahead and put an O-ring with washer on the inside and the outside...no leaks yet.

+1 Only the cheapest tequila will do for my airlocks!

Generally my beer never gets much time to sit around =) Plus I use the Oxy-absorbent caps, so hopefully that will help as well. Thanks to tall for the input. BTW, I have an auto-siphon on the way.:tank:

I use beer a a medication as well. My condition, you ask??? Being the only man working on an OB/GYN hospital ward with 45 other women.:eek:

3/4'' cut washers from Home Depot...I think they're only like $0.38 each. They fit the 1/2 inch threaded collars beautifully. Although as I type this, I need another one too, just too lazy to get off my arse and make it happen. I think I to would rather mail somebody a buck and have it sent to...

Quick update: Bottled the beer yesterday, and it smelled wonderful...perhaps it will be one of those un-repeatable beers that keeps people coming back for more=) Primary for one week, secondary for three weeks, bottled last night.

Pol, I can tell you based on observation that your grain has a great deal of thermal mass. I.e. if you added 10 gal of water to 10lbs of grain you would not see as appreciable of a drop in temperature as if you added 5 gal of water to the same weight of grain. It requires a specific amount of...

Make your own mash tun!!! Ask people in your local home improvement store. The guys in plumbing have likely dealt with folks like us before. I taught myself how to braze copper, and made my own manifold. SERIOUSLY, it is really EASY!!! I just did it myself. The whole bulkhead thing is really...

Junior member here, been brewing for a while...Long enough to know what(who) SWMBO is...This guy is from Brazil, English is more than likely his second language behind Portuguese, so I think I should be the one to tell him that SWMBO means Some Women May Be Offended!!! Seriously...The whole...

Guten tag!!! I used to hate that guy! I live in Daphne, AL, and aside from the crappy beer selection I have no complaints. Here and there I can find good craft brews, albeit more expensive; I can buy beer anytime of the day or night, seven days a week(unlike GA, amongst others); I can...

Technically, sugar is a preservative. Now that may seem counterintuitive to those of us used to sugar in a solution(i.e. homebrewers), but have you ever eaten a chocolate chip cookie that went bad? As such, you priming sugar does not need any sort of sanitation whatsoever. I've brewed somewhere...

Beer Beer the musical---Drink, the more you drink, the more you---Stink!

I will be doing my first AG recipe next weekend...I just finished my mash tun and immersion cooler this past weekend, and I was wondering about pre-heating my mash tun. The Pol said to heat the strike water to 170-175, THEN mash in, but I've always heard to add water to grain, not the other way...

Thankfully, that is a mistake I knew to avoid. The whole time during primary, I kept thinking that it smelled somewhat like lactobacillus, but could never quite make up my mind. Guess it was all those hops :drunk:

Last weekend I brewed a Douple IPA mini-mash kit. I realized when I tried to rack to secondary that I had made a mistake by not filtering the hops out of it when it went into primary. Generally, I do my primary in a bottling bucket, then use the spigot near the bottom to rack into secondary...

I took one of the bottles about 4 days after bottling and gave it a goods swirl to resuspend the yeast, then I tried it after three more days (assuming that the extra time in secondary gave the yeast time to clean the beer up a bit) and it was the most amazing beer I have ever tried! It was a...

I have a Dead Guy Ale clone that I am about to bottle, but it has been sitting in secondary for about two months. Do I need to pitch more yeast in order to carb in the bottle? Thanks!

My "On Deck" recipe kit is a Bavarian hefeweizen with Wyeast Weihenstephan 3068 yeast. My question is, do I follow all of the same processes that I would for brewing any other ale in order to have the cloudiness in the final product, or should I lessen the time in secondary, or not use a...

I brewed a Dead Guy Ale clone on Monday using Wyeast All-American Ale 1272. Previously when I have used any Wyeast smack pack, some signs of fermentation have been visible within a few hours. This batch however took almost 24 hours to show any signs of fermentation, which started off very...

Yeah, B-Brite came with my kit, but I used a majority of it with my first brew and saved what little of it was left to sanitize the post-boil equipment. I have more of it on the way...I did boil several gallons of tap water after washing the pot with dish soap though, if that is any help...I...