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Glad to see brewers are making steam lagers... This style gives a lot of room for various fermentation and conditioning schedules to suit your particular brewing situation. You certainly can make a great steam beer without lagering. If you accept the notion that a steam lager (when brewed...

Well....crap....I visually checked my cornies tonight. The stamped "IN" sign on the rubber lid of the corny keg was actually on the DIP tube side for BOTH kegs. I just got these kegs on the cheap from LHBS and unfortunately assumed all was well in keg-ville. What are the odds? Live and...

Ambient temp of the room was 64 d.f. Yes, I looked in the kegs and there's only 1.5 to 2.0 gallons each. I do recall a saying to myself "put the dip tube on the in-post." My connectors don't fit the out-posts on these particular kegs without a fight. Gravity on the remaining beer was 1.016...

I suppose this question is related to Corny fermentation as much as yeast pitching rates. In about three years of monthly brewing, I've been lucky and never lost a batch to an infection or disastrous spill. Well, my time finally arrived yesterday. I had a 10 gallon big Irish Red (OG of...

Rad, Yes and Yes! I am a born again corny fermenter here to sing the praises of stainless steel. Halleleujah! All you have to do for a blowoff tube is get one of those gray gas connector ball lock valves from your LHBS for a buck or two, connect it to the "IN" port of the keg, then run...

I did my first overnight mash yesterday. A big 8% Irish Red for St. Pats 2009. I mashed in 11pm on Thursday and started the sparge between 6-7am Friday morning. I do 10 gallon batches in a standard Home Depot 10 gallon Igloo round cooler. It only lost 4 degrees overnight left indoors at...