Recent content by Bildo

Yeah I have an old heater for a 125 gallon system laying around, I figured I'd put a thermometer in a tub and see how warm the water gets.

The room is about 50F, some times 45F. The belt worked fine on the last batch, I just don't know about leaving it on for 2 weeks.

Well you've pretty much told me what I needed to know. If brewing wheat beer is a whole lot different, as far as how it reacts. I need to find a way to keep it warm, I've got a heat belt but it says not to keep it on for more than 7 days.

I'm brewing a wheat beer this week, and my research tells me I should probably use a blow off tube of some sort. If I can find a container big enough to hold water and my bucket I'll use that to keep it warm with an aquarium heater. I am going to leave it in the primary for 3 weeks before...

So the lesson is, when you want the wife out of the house brew some beer! Hey you had a pretty good brew day in my opinion, nothing too unusual.

Bottled it last night! Finished at exactly 12:00, yeah I timed that (-;

Negra Modelo, Sam Adams Cherry Wheat, and Warsteiner Dunkel. I need to learn to make Negra Modelo.

Congrats! I just recently made my beer and am hoping it turns out right. I had an issue with other people refusing to leave the kitchen so I could make mine, so I had to keep re-sanitizing every thing, I also sanitized a special no lint kitchen wash cloth to use to wipe things off! Keep us...

A fermenter snuggie would be kind of funny(-:

I wrapped a couple blankets around it for now, it kind of stinks but hopefully it's nothing to worry about, I sanitized everything. The smell isn't overwhelming, just a little sour.

Just ordered a belt, it'll be here tuesday, hopefully the beer will be ok till then. I guess if it isn't I'll just make more, I don't give up!

Unfortunately I don't have a heater, I might have to get a belt I can put around the bucket and see what happens. Now I'm debating between regular bottles and swing tops.

Yeah I'm watching the temp, the room is only 60 degrees, but we keep the house very cold. My grandpa has some pink styrofoam type insulation, maybe I'll build a box out of that so that I can keep it at the right temp.

Thanks to everybody on here for all the help and advice. I brewed a red ale yesterday and didn't have many issues, except for the people I share a house with not understanding why I had the kitchen area blocked off. I almost had to throw a frying pan full of hamburger at the guy who decided he...

The time to kill every thing in a one liter bottle would be 15 sec with out bulbs. But it wouldn't work in the carboy because of the size.