Has anybody here used these? http://morebeer.com/products/tapadraft-6liter15gal-bottle.html
They seem nearly ideal. I'm tempted to pick up a couple to play around with.
They seem nearly ideal. I'm tempted to pick up a couple to play around with.
I just ordered a 2 gal fermenter from demon brew its a conical style anyone else use these ?
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Has anybody here used these? http://morebeer.com/products/tapadraft-6liter15gal-bottle.html
They seem nearly ideal. I'm tempted to pick up a couple to play around with.
Has anybody here used these? http://morebeer.com/products/tapadraft-6liter15gal-bottle.html
They seem nearly ideal. I'm tempted to pick up a couple to play around with.
Thanks for the help previously everyone. I just brewed my first batch ever last night. 1.25 gallons of a blonde ale. Everything went pretty smoothly throughout the process. The OG was about 4 points shy of the target, but otherwise everything seemed to be where it should be. The cooler that I put my fermenter in started pretty warm (about 80 degrees), but I added ice packs and it got down to 60 degrees overnight and seems to be holding steady for now. No activity in the airlock yet, but it hasn't been very long. Hopefully those yeast get to work soon so I can get to trying my creation!
Did you wait until you got it down to 60f before you pitched the yeast?
Thanks for the help previously everyone. I just brewed my first batch ever last night. 1.25 gallons of a blonde ale. Everything went pretty smoothly throughout the process. The OG was about 4 points shy of the target, but otherwise everything seemed to be where it should be. The cooler that I put my fermenter in started pretty warm (about 80 degrees), but I added ice packs and it got down to 60 degrees overnight and seems to be holding steady for now. No activity in the airlock yet, but it hasn't been very long. Hopefully those yeast get to work soon so I can get to trying my creation!
Sounds like everything went pretty good for a first batch!
Did you do any aeration of the wort after cooling it down? Shake the fermentor?
acarter - Sounds like your good with the pitching rate. Is it bubbling yet? Give it 24 hours and you should start seeing some activity.
The only other thing I can think of is raising your ferm temp up a bit. 60F is on the low side of ideal for S-05. 65-67F might kickstart it. :rockin:
Here everyone's trying to go cold and I'm trying to figure out how I can get temps up to the 80's for a saison/wit...
Basement's hanging out in the 60's right now, sump corner's in the upper 50's. I should really get a lager going...
I wish I was in Florida It's 3 degrees outside right now in northwest Ohio I some warm weather........ Really not about brewing just sick of bein cold.... Ok I am done lol
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Not sure about BeerLover87, but I know in our area (which averaged over 55 days below zero this year, some well below -30) my basement's been pretty stable in the 60's. It did cool down a little farther than usual in the corners, but I attribute it more to a deeper frost line this year than previous ones. LOTS of broken water mains this year, a couple townships have asked homes to keep water running to keep the pipes from freezing up. Heating bill's been higher than I'd like too - I feel sorry for all those folks that deal with propane!
Now that I'm getting a better handle on ambient basement temps (and humidity levels) I think I'm going to start planning beers around seasons. Just need to get some data from summer...
Can't speak for OK - haven't lived there since I was a kid.
I will say that one of the major investments that I'm looking into getting sometime this summer is a small chest freezer (either 5cuft or 7cuft) and a temp controller so that I can have a dedicated fermentation chamber. So much of quality of the flavor of the beer can be affected by fermentation temps, I've read multiple times on here that it's the single greatest addition you can make to your beer. 160bucks or less is cheap enough to not worry about wild temp swings for my batches.
Maybe something to think about for the future?
5 oz simcoe
2.5 oz ahtanum
.5 oz warrior
.5 oz amarillo
SBD - That Surly Furious sounds absolutely delish. Are you going by NB's recipe? I wonder what the "dry hop blend" is?
ETA: Found this reference dry hop blend for 5g batch:
HBC - I use Grolsch bottles all the time. Love 'em. :rockin:
Sammy: How many of them do you own? And do you have a good web source for finding good quality ones on the cheap? I anticipate having our second fridge very full with a healthy representation of a majority of the recognized beer styles at the peak of my addicti... er.... hobby.
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