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Took my first pull tonight. Had to dump the first 12 + ounces due to trub, a little more than expected. I guess any carbonation sediment in the bottles put itself in the bottom of the keg. I forced carbed at 30 for 48 hours and then left at 10 for 5 days. Had a little more carbonation at...

Thanks for the thoughts. Ran some star san through a keg with CO2 and just "gently" dumped all 45 bottles in. There were 2 hisses out of the whole group that lasted longer than .1 second. My funnel was to big for the racking tubing. Personally, I think it will be fine. I once had my...

Toss in 5 pounds of Light malt extract. Depends on how much space you have in the fermenter, but you could do a 6 gallon or 7 gallon batch. (Boil the extract in 1-2 gallons of good water). This may save your batch. Personally, I think you are better off spending the extra 5 dollars on...

Bottled a batch of "Bad Santa" ale 5 weeks ago. I tried one 2 weeks ago with not a single bottle hissing when opening. Gave it more time, and I am 0/3 today. This is my 50th + bottle batch, and the first one that didn't carb. I did forget to put bottling sugar in when I did my transfer...

Had my first keg fill today. New 15 lb cylinder (thanks kegconnection). Took forever to find a place that would fill. Airgas said they only do "bulk fills" and would not fill it until sometime next week and that it would have to "sit" for 3 days since it was food grade gas. Found a place in...

Hey, I'm switching from bottles to kegs and got one of your keg deals last Friday. Keg seems great. Clean. Pressure held (as tested by relief valve), good condition keg, arrived quickly. I would love to get the free shipping code, as I am planning on buying a complete setup soon, and...

I have scoured the forums, and I am unable to find a clear answer. I do primarily partial mash and extract brews. I usually am using LME. Is there a difference in hop utilization or flavor of the beer with a late extract addition (for example flameout) after making a hop tea versus having...

Took the day to bottle a batch of beer, and then proceeded to brew a new batch. My 2.5 year old has had cabin fever all day, and was trying to mess with everything from the brew in the fermenter, to the bottling bucket, the newly bottled beers,s to the fermenter and bottling bucket cleaning, to...

could be several things. 1. Your beersmith "efficiency" is set to low (eg 75% and you are gettin g>80%). 2. You are not adjusting your hydrometer for actual temperature 3. You are adding more sugar than you thought (scale off, malt extract off...) 4. You are not really not really getting...

I put together a partial mash from this thread on beer smith: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/kettlehouse-cold-smoke-scotch-ale-recipe-259668/ 3 lbs 4 oz 2 row 6 lbs light LME 6 oz brown sugar ( in boil) 5.2 oz Caramel 120 3.3 oz Black patent 1.5 oz roasted barley .25 oz Tomahawk for...

Plan to brew a Cold Smoke Scotch ale clone on Monday. I have never actually drank it before but everyone from Montana seems to love the stuff, so thought I would give it a try. Any thoughts on Nottingham vs. S-33 (or any other yeast). Would prefer to stick with dry yeast. OG 1.067 target...

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2nd resurrection. Any updates? I checked out homebrew heaven and the hops were .50-75 cents an ounce cheaper hops, 7 lbs dme for the same price as 6 lbs dme, 4 dollars cheaper for 6 lbs of DME, ability to buy caps by the pound (in comparison to the store I have been going to)......Sure the...

My guilty pleasure. -In order to save my homebrew, I often drink boxed wine...9 dollars for 3 liters. I guess if I just didn't drink that for 3 or 4 weeks, I would have saved enough for another fermenter and be in good shape. My wife though said no more fermenters until we have enough room...

why are the issues with conversion with mashing in higher than 2 qts/pound? Also is the 2 qts (or a little less) per pound only your "fermentable" malts, or does that include your specialty malts as well?

How big is your pot? 9 lbs of DME in 4 gallons of water may give you 5 gallons of foam. I put in 6 lbs and have a fan blowing over the top and a ladle (20 qt pot with about 16 qts fluid) You want to get that baby boiling. There are numerous threads about doing a "hard" vs. "soft" boil and the...

Go to the brew shop and spend 20 bucks on a bottling wand, a bucket with a spigot, and an autosiphon. Go to Home Depot and get 6 feet of 3/4 inch tubing. Cut 2 inches off to connect the spigot to the bottling wand and use the rest as your transfer tubing. Put the bottling bucket as high...

Some people have a heightened sensation to "bitterness". The most easy way to tell if you are is if you find diet soda to be as sweet or sweeter than regular soda, or if it has an off flavor. Personally, I can only drink diet dr. pepper, and find other diet drinks unbearable. In the classroom...

My experience is even more brief. The one thing that I have found is that each batch of my beers is getting a little "better" . My first beer was so full of "off flavors" that it was barely palatable. Only worth drinking because I made it. What have I done differently from the very first...

--Thanks everyone for the comments. So how does this sound: 1. Partial mash 2 lbs of grain + specialties --1 hour. 2. Add in DME and brown sugar (2 lbs) 3. Bring to boil---first hop addition 5. with 15 minutes left in boil pull out the hop bag, add in 6 lbs LME, bring back to boil. 6...