i recently put a water spigot directly over my HLT so i fill directly without dumping or lifting buckets. i hook up my wort chiller via hose then switch to spray nozzle for cleaning. takes about 30 min off my brew time.
first take a specific gravity reading. if you are at your target pre boil s.g., then proceed and throw out excess wort.
if the s.g. is too low, then boil down as much as you can and add the excess wort until you reach your target pre boil s.g.
get rid of all your plastic and vinyl. had the same thing happen to me. use star san and boil everything. replace anything plastic. if you use a cooler get a new one.
pulled out 2 vial yeast starter this morning for a 10gal. brew.
i closed the cap on the grolsch bottle momentarily to give the starter a quick swirl.
i forgot to re-open the cap and continued to brew
4 hours later i opened the cap and of course it exploded.
i lost about half the...
20 is what i always force carb at. 4-7 days for carbing and settling. will be bubbly after 3 days but give it a few mor for carbonic acid to settle out.
google Chicha de Jora. made from germinating maize to convert the starch to fermentable sugar then making wort and fermenting. could you germinate the corn water? ithink you are on to something here.
tastes fine post boil. my wort chiller is old. i was thinking of replacing the chiller and switching out the vinyl tube for copper. only thing i can think of other than that is my pump. i guess i could take it apart and boil all the parts, but i always run hot star san water through it before...
kettle is chilled with copper coil chiller. the chilled wort goes from kettle to glass carboy via strainer/funnel. chiller and fermenter are sanitized with starsan. beer goes from carboy to corny keg via autosiphon (also soaked in starsan) corny keg is usuall sanitized with boiling water and...
what is "brett"? is that plastic? my system is stainless with vinyl braided hose coming from the HLT to the Mash tun, then the mash tun drains via a vinyl braided hose to the kettle. please tell me that this is my problem. that would be the easiest fix int the world