Recent content by barneyfife

Was planning on a neipa anyway. Been using kveik lately, like the results

Just received my order today, 6lbs of various hops. A couple of the packages were not sealed anymore, but i'll vacuum pack em up (ordered on Friday).

Just received a pound of sasquatch hops. Now i need an all grain recipe. Anyone had experience with this hop. Thanks

I was a little worried about ferment temps with my kolsch 2565 Wyeast. Ambient temperature is 54 degrees, and this is 48 hrs later. Guess i was fretting for nothing. PS. This was from a vial frozen in May/2014 and stepped up

Open valve, then loosen,tighten valve. If not, water pump pliers, carefully

Yes, you put it on the outside of the vessel. If you wind the tape on clockwise, then thread it in clockwise, it will have a tendency to unravel the tape off of the thermowell. If put on counter clockwise, it will stay on the thermowell and will not unravel. Might not be explaining myself...

I had mine leak before also. What i did is stretch a keg post "O" ring over the thermowell and tighten her up. Hasnt leaked in a year. barney PS: put the tape on the thermowell threads counter clockwise

Just cleaning out my garden, and found i have some lemon balm in there. Cant remember why i put it in there,but whatever. I sometimes like a lemon taste in a beer, so if I dried the leaves, could i use it in the boil, or would dry hopping be a better idea. And any ideas for a recipe would be...

After 2 days, they (5 gallons in bucket, and 5 in conical),both volcanoed out the tops. Cleaned up the mess and loosened the lid on the bucket and conical for a couple days, til things calmed down. It has been a week now, and bubbling has slowed right down, so will leave another couple of weeks...

I have a 1.050 kolsch going in my fast ferment conical. The thermowell temperature says it is 53* (ambient about 50*). It is bubbling vigorously every 4 seconds, . I pitched onto the yeast cake from a previous batch of Kolsch,about 10 hrs ago,that i fermented at 60*. . My question is, being that...

I stretched a keg post "0" ring over the thermowell, and that stopped the leaks for me. Barney

By clean, if you mean pull the thermowell out every time, no i do not. It is too scary tightening it up every time into the plastic threads. Too scared I might strip em. But i do thoroughly wash after every batch with oxy clean in my home made carboy washer. Havent had an infection yet (knock on...

What i did with my thermowell, which did leak ever so slightly, is to stretch a keg post o-ring over it. Seems to work, as it has not leaked for about 10 brews so far. Barney

Hi all, To start, i racked a munich helles from my fastferment conical after 3 weeks at 50*, and then up to 68* for diacytel rest. At 4 weeks when i was going to rack to keg, i gave it a taste, and it had a strange metallic taste. After scouring the web for possible reasons, (improper storage of...

Hi, Just like to say that the customer support at Fastbrewing is A1. There was no Canadian option to purchase the pre-order of the TCJ, so I emailed Casey on Sept.22, he got back to me on the 24th, and said he would get his team on it next week. He emailed me today,(Sept.29), and said his guys...