Recent content by Blu3Ridge

Thanks, good to know. I just didn't want to make sure I was over looking a better filtering technique, like using a hopback.

I'm frustrated. After my flame-out and racking into my carboy, the trub from the hops probably removed a 3/4s a gallon of my IPA after running my wort through a filter into a 5 gallon carboy. What's the solution? Next time should I tell BeerSmith I'm making 6 gallons of an IPA as I'm...

At the 10 minute mark I introduced my wort chiller to sanitize it, pitched in 1oz of East Kent Goldings for flavor, and added 2 cinnamon sticks. I let the sticks sit in the wort during the flame out and did not rack them into my primary. The general theme I'm reading is its always better to...

I can't find a clear answer on this. Some say add cinnamon 15-5 minutes left in the boil, great results. Others say never add cinnamon sticks to a boil because it will produce tannins thus add them to a primary/secondary only. What has been your experience? BeerSmith when I added cinnamon...

I would recommend using a glass carboy as your primary. I rack into kegs for secondary. Plastic once infected, is done.

You'll be fine. I touch beer equipment all the time that comes in contact with my chilled wort. I just keep a spray bottle of star san handy and always spray myself down before I touch it, and whatever I'm about to touch. A arm dripping with acid on it, shouldn't hurt it.

I can't find a clear answer on this. Some say add cinnamon 15-5 minutes left in the boil, great results. Others say never add cinnamon sticks to a boil because it will produce tannins thus add them to a primary/secondary only. What has been your experience? BeerSmith when I added...

Yes ^ I learned my lesson from my last batch of doing a .07 Stout. It was supposed to finish at .013, but I lost so much yeast in the explosion of flavor it finished at .05 and at 5% ABV where my aim was 7% :( Thinking anything Imperial would be good, so a nice big OG beer. Since I...

The gravity stayed the same after a week and half. Bottled it. Now can anyone recommend a blow off valve so I don't lose all my yeast next time?

I'll be on a TDY for four months. Can anyone give me some suggestions of some brew to make that can sit in a carboy for that long in my basement, so by the time I come back in July, it will be amazing and ready to bottle and I can drink to victory? Thanks!

I've come to accept I have these three options: 1. Pitch more yeast 2. Wait another week, take a hydro sample, if still .03, bottle. Learn from this. 3. Wait another week, take a hydro sample, if <.03, wait till it hits FG. It's a slow beer. Lessons learned so far, buy a blow off valve when...

Gents, Three weeks ago I started the process on a Russian Winter Stout. This is my first high OG brew. So on brew day, I took an OG of 1.07, pitched my yeast, and left that night for the weekend, and returned to this: I quickly siphoned it into my carboy and let it chill there up to...