Recent content by BigIslandBrewer

Does the "A" on your hat stand for admiral?

I love it man, you need a double beer helmet to free up that other hand though

Do you have an extra keg handy? You could dry hop the empty keg, charge it up and transfer under pressure. That way your not opening your gassed keg.

Recently brewed a heavy red IPA, I added close to 6 oz of hops within the last 10 minutes of the boil. I didn't have a big enough starter ready so I added the un-chilled wort straight into the fermenter (figured it would help sanitize everything, similar to the Australian method). Let it cool at...

I wanted to avoid checking it since he will be traveling light and only bringing a carry on with him. Its not cost effective to pay $20 airline fee for checking a bag just cause of the yeast. If we could carry it on, then great, if no can, I have other relatives visiting soon who will be...

I did hear back from wyeast, they said their activator packs are 4.25 oz and they believe the TSA restriction will not allow them. They advise placing them in the cargo hold. Good point on the ice packs, we were going to use the disposable gel packs, however I didn't even think about those...

From what I can find, wyeast packs are 4.5oz? and White labs vials are 35 ml or 1.18 ounces. TSA allows up to 3.5 oz so maybe no to the wyeast and yes to the whitelabs? There are no distributors of Whitelabs here so I cant confirm the 35ml. Thanks for the quick reply yooper!

Aloha, I have a friend visiting next week and he's bringing out a few strains of yeast that I had him pickup on the mainland which I couldn't get here. I was wondering if anyone new if he could carry them on the plane with him in a small ice box. I've put them in a lunch box cooler and checked...