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Lighten up guys. I appreciate the input and the quick sorting of the issues. I filled a rubbermaid with a few gallons of water/ice and cold crashed the sucker. It looks good.

Thanks for the responses. It smells like beer. I haven't tasted yet. Again, was busy attempting to not fail partial differential equations so I can get another piece of paper (in addition to my DD214) that says "this individual is capable of putting up with completely insane BS without killing...

Heh, yeah I drove myself mad checking my first brew every few hours and one of the wise men of HBT told me to walk away and come back in a few weeks. That's standard practice now. I check in the next day, and maybe the second as well, because I'd hate to miss out on the airlock going nuts. After...

To me clear implies non-opaque, and light is having one hell of a time penetrating the dark stratum. Before I moved it the whole beer was more like the middle stratum in color, and was clear enough to read a book through. I was actually pretty happy with how well it cleared. Just a pale ale...

Interesting "development" maybe someone here can identify. I moved my carboy from the closet to the counter with the intent of letting it sit for a few hours to settle down again before I kegged the brew, and this happened almost immediately: *** by Anthony J. Martinez, on Flickr The...

I've been absent from HBT for a while, engineering school keeps me busy. My interest (or obsession) with photography does too (I recently finished building a darkroom because I shoot film more than digital lately). Anyway, I made a MLT with a stainless false bottom a few weeks ago and tried...

Home Depot GE here. It'll fit 3 comfortably on the floor with enough space to keep a growler cold as well (for when I want to fill it up and take homebrew with me to a football game or whatever). Tank on the hump. I could fit a 4th plus the tank on the hump as well. 8" collar mounted to the...

Thanks, that's what I plan on doing. Right after I, hopefully, ace this Cal2 exam tomorrow. Also, excellent avatar. Easily one of the best movies ever.

Understood. The first time I bumped up the pressure it was a good 10 days before I even had time to try it again. At any rate, I'm going to leave both kegs alone until sometime in the middle of May. Hopefully I'm greeted with tasty carbonated beer at that point! Thanks, photography is...

Heh, I'm not sure how that'd work out for me. I don't have a tower, just a collar. Thanks, though!

I'm thinking there's a temperature problem as well. I've gone higher (and lower) on the pressure without any difference at all. :confused: My initial pours, predictably, are shot of foam, beer, shot of foam. This suggests gas in my beer lines from warm lines. Once the lines are cool, to the...

A while back, I finished my keezer build and kegged my first beer. Carbonating that beer seems to be causing me more problems than it should. For now, I am going to blame my lack of patience. There is some carbonation, but not as much as I think there should be. Then again, there is a persistant...

SRV went to leaking again. The beer tastes like acid (too many carbonated to flat cycles???) now. Back to bottling until this whole keg thing makes sense.

With all commotion last week, I almost completely forgot I had beer fermenting under my stairs! The Adventure Ale (so named because it really doesn't fit any particular style, nor do I know with any certainty what my fermentables were) had been doing its thing down there for more than two weeks...

I'm kind of having a similar problem. I finally got my kegs to stop leaking gas, force carbed w/ the whole shake it method (even though it's clearly not ideal). Pressure has stabilized at 12psi, which happens to be the pressure one of those tables says I should use to force carb over a long...

The Columbus was 14.2% AA, Centennial was 9.2% AA, and Cascades was 7.8% AA

I'm all kinds of unsure what went on here, care to discuss how you got your IBU number? This was meant, allegedly, to be an Imperial IPA. The hops I got, and the hops listed on DeFalco's site for their Imperial IPA recipe are not the same - but I'm assuming the malts are. The steeping bag was...

It's been a while since my last brewday, and my good friend Joesph came to town for a few days, so I decided to fix that little problem. A few weeks ago, I decided an IPA would be my next style. Today's brew, however, is more an Adventure Ale. Why is it an Adventure? I have no idea what is even...

Finally sat down and figured out how to use this on my netbook. My Mac hates me (the feeling is mutal though), so I run 1.2 in Win7 and it's all gravy. I will definitely be using this when I brew my next beer, I should have used it when I brewed my last one.

Thanks, that's what I did and it seems to hold fine.