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Nail polish dabs on the bottom of the bottles :-)

I'm a new brewer, barely wet. I hadn't realised I could use dry malt extract versus wet malt extract. Dummy me thought DME was just for yeast starters.

If you have access to a chamber vacuum sealer, you could vacuum seal in mason jars once fermentation has stopped. Chamber machines work much better with liquids, allowing the jars to have little headspace.

I was wondering if I could do this. I'm thinking of how I can jams. Putting a rack or even folded tea towel on the bottom of a pot, adding the flask, water in the pot and boiling. It seems this should work.

I tried various Rube Goldberg fittings to make this work with local hardware help and eventually went with what I had that worked. The Igloo 2-gallon cooler spigot removed and replaced with a Tomlinson spigot I had on hand from brewing kombucha. This spigot is long enough that the 6" bazooka...

Thanks. Will look for the paint strainer when I return various doodads to the hardware store, I built the 2-gallon mash tun, finished this morning :-)

Thanks, I missed it. I've read more than half the 560+ pages to this thread over several sessions and missed yours.

I'm debating building a mash tun for my all grain batches. Watched many youtube videos for ideas, all for 5-gallon and up batches. One guy did up a functioning MT in an ice chest for under $5.00 and I'd like to give it a try. I'm new to Homebrew (2 extract, zero all-grain), have physical...

The guy at my local hardware suggested filling the coil with rice before forming the chiller, to avoid kinks.

Tomlinson plastic "ceramic crock" spigots are the suggested replacement spigots in the US.

The tea may gave gone in too hot. The Scoby looks dead, the tea sounds like it didn't ferment.

Some feel there is a hygienic issue with a spigot. Certainly during fruit fly season you risk those gosh darn flies finding your spigot is a good place to hang out. There is also the issue of the protruding spigot into the gar when the Scoby sinks during setup. That protrusion will hinder the...