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Also, Pinching this section momentarily with your fingers will force all air bubbles out and then beer flows freely, unoxygenated.

Should this guy even be drinking beer to begin with...?! Sanitizing latex gloves, that's a new concept...

I would have left him, pitched and used this as an opportunity to name your beer...Dead "fly" Ale...but seriously, I wouldn't worry about one little insect destroying a whole batch. I'd be more worried about re-boiling the wort after it's been chilled. Never heard of anyone doing that before. I...

Mine too! Just finished a ferment with 2 packs of Notty and it blew off for two days...sounded like a hot tub in the blowoff bucket :)

One week is wayyy too early for a beer that big. I'd give it at least a month. Plus, only multiple gravity readings spaced a few days apart will tell you if you're stalled or not. It sounds like active fermentation is still going on but if you're still concerned take a reading every couple days...

Oxyclean in hottest tap water you can get. Comes clean in 30 min to an hour...

Well if you can stick it in a fridge and cold crash it (works well if you're kegging), that sediment turns to clay and you can pretty much move the auto siphon all around without fear of disturbing the cake. I tried this for the first time on last batch and just dropped the siphon all the way...

Ice cold is tolerable but when it sits in the can for 40min with my hand wrapped around it, warms up pretty fast and that's when it becomes undrinkable for me. Moot point really as I almost always bring my own beer, just on some occasions that has not been possible. I just choose not to drink...

Always a good idea to have many extras of things like stoppers and airlocks. Like others have said you should get another one on there with airlock ASAP. With tinfoil, once fermentation subsides, you run the risk of air entering carboy.

Having drank this many times now, I just can't see how the IBU's in this beer are any less than 100..It's why I like this brew as much as I do because I'm a hophead...:rockin:

I think once you've loaded the recipes into beersmith, you can export them as a .bsm file to somewhere on your computer. Then upload them here for people to use. Agree though this could be time consuming...

This would be awesome!

+1 The beer I like can go for 7$-9$ a bomber in stores. On average a batch will cost me around 20-30 depending on hop quantities, yeast type etc... I buy grain in bulk so that helps. So in a 5 gallon batch, I've saved roughly 170$ for comparable brew/styles. I made it, it sits in a keg in my...

When you've had more than one person ask you if you're running a meth lab out of your garage...

Seems like I'm the only one here who still uses iodophor...is star-san much better than that? I haven't had any sanitization issues to date using the iodine but am always willing to change if it produces better results.

I don't consider that beer so I would probably dump it... I recently went to a party where all they had was coors light...I attempted to drink it so that I could "socialize" with everybody else...almost made me vomit.

Local grocery store always has bombers of this. I actually ha a bottle last week but was too lazy to take a reading. Maybe this weekend I'll pick some up and report back.... I agree though this beer doesn't offer the residual sweetness that would accompany an FG that high but maybe the hops...

Those clumps are perfectly normal. I've seen that on a few beers of mine. Sometimes they fall out of suspension, other times they just stay floating until you rack. The obvious signs of an infection are taste and smell but in your case(s) I wouldn't worry too much. And as union said...

Wow! Did they wheel you out or where you able to walk on your own after all that?! :cross:

I think the stuff at the Oregon brewfest was black and red and it didn't get very good reviews. I agree with the poster who mentioned trying brews specific to the pub. Those are the specialty beers that will most likely never hit stores. I hope someday to make it there but I'll need a better...