Search results

Well, bottled her up yesterday. Looked and smelled good. It's got a lot of strong wood and spice flavors that will take several months to mellow, so I guess I'll carefully start trying it out in a few months. Thanks all for the informative and entertaining thread :D

Do you know any way to test for such a thing before drinking it? The internet seems to think dangerous bacteria are less likely to survive in beer, but knowing before drinking would be nice.

Yeah, it's a bba christmas stout, so I added in bourboned wood chips and spices.

This weekend a friend with a 1 year old baby helped me brew. The kid was well behaved except at the worst possible moment: When racking the previous beer to secondary, the kid snuck up and threw a fuzzy toy into my secondary fermenter. His mom pulled it out and let the beer drain off the toy...

I think that's a great solution. Thanks!

Good point. I'm aiming to be able to store one 8-gallon (5-gallon batch) bucket. I'm imagining something like this fold-up beer cooler but with a small plug-in cooling unit on the side (condenser-based, probably) that can be run with a standard controller like the Inkbird mentioned above. The...

Thanks for the feedback! I might still go for it as I'm in an old apartment with manual radiators and hence wild temperature swings, but I don't have room for a whole other fridge. Glad to hear it worked, at least. Any other pointers if you were to do it again?

I joined a brewing club that shut down for coronavirus reasons. We're hoping to reboot the club with members brewing at home using the club's equipment. But the real barrier is fermentation. How do we (cheaply, <$200) create or buy a "collapsable fermentation chamber" that can be easily driven...

I'm very interested in building one of these myself. Did it work out? Any lessons learned? Did your equipment purchases listed above work well?