RIC0
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I usually use 6.5 gallon buckets and never have to really worry about it. This was my first time using the carboy and a lesson was learned. Thankfully I got to it in time before it went Kaboooooooom!!!!
RIC0 said:I usually use 6.5 gallon buckets and never have to really worry about it. This was my first time using the carboy and a lesson was learned. Thankfully I got to it in time before it went Kaboooooooom!!!!
RIC0 said:I've learned that using wyeast liquid packets should be used with a blowoff tube.
Woke up to a small mess this morning. I truly did not think this spiced ale would go crazy like my imperial stout did. Lesson learned I'll NEVER use that yeast and NOT use a blowoff tube.
This batch now has a blowoff tube and things are going as planned.
Learned that just because you've got a higher gravity beer doesn't mean that it will explode through the blow off. The krausen is comfortably resting a good half gallon from the top of the carboy. A little disappointed... :-/ it looks so cool when others have a full carboy and blow off tube
I learned that I CAN brew beer! REAL beer and not just in my Mr. Beer Kit. Just brewed a Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout and it is in the LBK fermenting right now.
After bottling my first ever batch today using a siphon from the bottling bucket, I learned (or rather decided) that my bottling bucket will soon have a hole drilled in it and a tap inserted.
dadshomebrewing said:i bottle out of a stock pot... are you using an auto-siphon, or the old fashioned gravity fed kind with a racking cane, hose, and bottling wand?
The old fashioned kind. Starting the siphon and then trying to attach the wand is far too fiddly. An auto-siphon might be a better bet.
dadshomebrewing said:i do it the old fashioned way, too.
do you have any hose clips, they are a godsend
I learned today to not forget that if you use a stir plate for a starter that the stir bar pitches right in with the yeast.
I learned that finally getting a wort chiller absolutely rules. UNTIL you notice that the fancy sink you have in your kitchen, that you thought was cool when you bought it, now sucks because that awesome wort chiller you just got won't hook up to it. Thank goodness for long garden hoses
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