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Thanks so much, MadScientist! It all makes perfect sense. I won't mess with the uncarb'd beer. Not worth the risk. Agreed. The stand alone keg system will eliminate the headache and worry. I'm definitely doing that. Thanks for opening my eyes to it! It appears the Williams floating...

Hey guys, I’ve brewed 40+ batches over the years and have never run into this. Instead of experimenting, I’d rather leave it in the hands of you experts! My bottled beer isn’t carbonated. I want to figure out why… and I want to figure out if I can safely add carbonation now. Here’s the...

After a few hours of slowly leaking out the gas, it stopped and I transferred the beer. All good. The gravity dropped to 1.009 and it seems a little thin but NO problems. As always, RDWHAHB.

I brewed an Arrogant Bastard clone... 2 weeks in primary. 3 weeks in secondary. Now 3 months in an eight-gallon whiskey barrel (first time it's been used - received from distillery - I soaked with water and full bottle of whiskey after receiving). I left it sit quietly since January and I...

Good job, I like it! There's only so much you can do with a local spot and you nailed it!

Wayne, thank you for the suggestions and links... very much appreciated! Today, I realized that I'm still missing more equipment to make this work. Here is my set up: -15 gallon boil pot (no spigots at the bottom, it's a solid pot) -the therminator (and soon it's proper connectors / tubing...

My wife got me a terminator for Christmas... now I need to figure out how to hook it up. IMO the instructions weren't great in regards to buying the proper fittings. I went to Lowe's with the instructions in hand and the guy there had no clue either. I've searched the forums and still don't...

I just had this exact same problem. I've done approx. 15 previous all-grain batches and never had a problem this bad. It was also a stout but had flaked oats. Even when I gave up on the sparge and transfered to a grain bag, it was still having trouble. It was like a layer of mud was building...

We just brewed this Sunday. Our new method, since there are two of us, is to brew 10 gallons of each beer we make so we each get 5 gallons of our own. Then, of course, we brew two batches. So, a twenty gallon brew day is behind us and we're looking forward to doing it again. Our first beer...

Thanks for the help, not sure what we'll end up doing. I always search the forums before posting, in the case however, I had no idea what terms to search. The similar threads below make me feel like a moron, sorry.

My friend and I like to do marathon brew days where we brew 3 batches in a row (maybe that's the norm for the rest of you?). We have 2 brew kettles but only one mash tun. Of course we could get a second mash tun or do an extract brew in between, but for the short term, we're thinking of...

where can i buy a manifold? I have a converted 10-gallon orange home depot cooler and currently use a stainless braid. if someone has a link to a manifold i could buy that would fit that type of cooler, i'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

Does this mean that I'll be double-carbing the beer? If I have the priming sugar in there already, why would I want even more CO2? I get it's to seal the keg, does this mean I put a very low pressure of CO2? If so, how much?

I have a 10 lb CO2 cylinder. One other quick question since I'm so new to kegging. I plan on using priming sugar instead of force-carbing. If I do this, it is not necessary to run any CO2 into the keg whatsoever until I'm ready to drink, correct? In other words, I won't run CO2 to the keg...

A friend and I brewed a 5 gallon that we'd like to split. We don't want to bottle since we have new kegerators... How much C02 is wasted by filling a 5 gallon keg with only 2.5 gallons of beer? Is this a huge problem or no big deal? Thanks!

what about putting the ice in the fermenter to cool the wort... is this okay to do? I'd never heard that before and I'm sick of waiting for my wort to cool. The immersion wort chiller I have is really getting annoying; doesn't work quickly enough for me.

Man, I'm drooling looking at these pictures and reading these posts. I hardly have any woodworking experience but my confidence is very high... mostly driven by envy. I am, however, really nervous about the rewiring of one of these for temperature control. Is it really difficult or can a...

Man, I'm drooling looking at these pictures and reading these posts. I hardly have any woodworking experience but my confidence is very high... mostly driven by envy. I am, however, really nervous about the rewiring of one of these for temperature control. Is it really difficult or can a...

Well now I feel like an extreme amateur... I will say though, this top-level krausen has been there for over a week and hasn't begun to fall. I bottled five of those 34oz clear bottles, the rest are in regular dark-glass 12oz bottles... all of them have this layer. I just tilted some of the...

Here is one of my bottles... I can get a better resolution picture if necessary... for scale; this is a 34oz bottle.