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Opened one of the Pale Ales that I brewed in the pot used for frying turkeys. It tasted fine to me, no off flavors that I could detect. I have used the pot twice for beer now and no longer smell the peanut oil.

I tried a search before posting, but could'nt find anything pertaining to this question. I checked my capper and its not adjustable. Thanks for the advice, guess I'll have to buy another capper. I do'nt want the bottle to be the deciding factor in which beer I buy.

I was bottling some Pale Ale today and began having trouble capping some of bottles while others capped with no problem. The bottles that gave me trouble were shorter and had a little bit more slender neck. I am using a hand held wing type capper. Would a bench top capper work on these bottles...

I cleaned the pot with dish detergent several times and I also soaked it in bleach. I haven't had any beer go any further than the fermenter yet, so I am unable to tell you how the beer tastes. Soon as this batch has been in the bottle for a week I'll start sampling.

I don't know why the ferment failed, I pitched twice and got nothing both times. I discussed this on another thread, and never came up with a definitive reason. I have fryed a couple of turkeys in the pot and couldn't get the peanut oil smell out of the pot. Now that I've used it twice for beer...

For those of you that are interested, my first batch of beer in the turkey fryer would'nt ferment and I had to throw it away. The 2nd batch is bubbling away nicely in the primary fermenter. More to come in a few weeks as to taste.

I did'nt take a gravity reading, but I did taste it, very sweet with no bite at all. When I rehydrated the yeast in luke warm water and covered it with plastic wrap for about 10 minutes before pitching it. I did'nt know what else to do to the beer so I tossed it. I only have 1 fermenter and...

I pitched another packet of yeast and waited 3 days, and still nothing happened. So with a tear in my eye I dumped out that batch. I immediately started my 3rd batch and it was bubbling away this morning. On my 1st and 3rd batch, I sprinkled the yeast over the top of the wort as per instructions...

I've been drinking Bud since I was 18, legal then, and I still drink some. In the last few years I started drinking mostly micro brews and imports. Much more flavor!!! I recently started home brewing just to see if I could duplicate some of my favorite brews, not to save money. It's a hobby man...

I don't want to open the bucket again until i have some more yeast. I'll take a gravity reading then and post.

Thanks, unfortunately, I don't have any. Just ordered some, It'll take a few days to get here. From now on I'll keep some extra around the house.

I have'nt taken a gravity reading, but there is no crud on the sides.

I just opened my fermentation bucket after 1 week, I was away from home the first few days of fermentation so I was not here to see if anything was coming through the airlock. When I opened the bucket there had been no activity at all. Is it to late to save the beer by adding more yeast?

Thanks for the acronyms, I was having trouble with SWMBO also. Now my morbid curiosity is peaked. Do you have links to any of the classy marines threads. I will not sleep til I read at least one. Thanks, BeerMedic

Thanks Igor, I had'nt tried to remove the widget, did'nt think it was possible.