Recent content by brcisna

Hello All, Have malted about 10 50lb bags of barley. these were 'spring barley'' bagged as seed grade barley. All has went fine with this variety. Bought two bags from same seed supply place locally that were from Canada and has the usual 'contents' tag on the bag and did not really say 'spring...

Hello All, Can anyone explain why the quick chill down after doing a boil is? I'm guessing has something to do with 'this enzyme' needs quick cooling or something? Seen were some folks just let the boiled wort cool over night then pitch yeast once wort is down to room temp and have found no...

Another thought. At one weeks time I did take the lid off to check to see what the fermenting looked like with this SAF-Instant yeast. This is the first time i've ever pulled the lid open priorr to racking to the bottling bucket. Is it possible the air let it caused this? At the one weeks time...

The green bucket is just a 5 gallon food grade bucket Thanks

Hello All, On about the 10th 5 gallon brew batch. NEWBIE. This is an Cerveza Sole clone recipe,,BUT substituted the bundled yeast with 2 oz of Saf-Instant yeast which is used at a local cookie/cracker factory. My previous brew with this recipe turned out great. Just wanted to try something...

Hello All, New to home brewing, new to barley malting also. Tried malting first 50lb bag of 6 row barley bought at local farm supply store. The grain was surprising very clean of other 'stuff' such as wheat weeds etc. the malting process went very smooth. Question in regards to making some...

Hello All, After doing only a couple of opened bottles of a second batchof (12 ounce) brews i am seeing a good 1/8th inch of sediment in bottom of bottles. Of course have read this is to be expected. Seen a youtube were someone had devised something that gets your bottled brew completely...

Hello All, Just cracked open a couple of my first brewed batch of beer. It is a "Dark Pumpkin Ale" recipe (from AIH) and tried following the brewing instructions to a T. Brewed,,let ferment for 21 days,, hydrometer reading was stable for 3 consecutive days,,bottled,,let sit for 14 days to...

Totally, Thanks! Have never heard of this , but of course makes perfect sense. I purchased the bigger 1/2" wand thinking it would speed up bottling a tad. Looks like ordering a 3/8" wand! (y)

Hello All, Newbie here to home brewing. Just finished brewing my fourth batch being Newcastle Brown Ale Clone two days ago. This is the the first batch I tried using harvested yeast from a previous batch which was 4 weeks ago out of Pumpkin Ale and yeast being White Labs 028. As many...

Hello All, Newbie here to home brewing & have bottled third, five gallon batch. This question is so elementary but cant figure out why 12 ounce long neck bottles never seem to be close to being full enough. Am using the common bottling wand and am holding bottles level when bottling and...

LLBeanJ, Thanks for the info. This reply makes things even that much simpler for the batch i'm about to brew. This yeast was harvested just one week ago,so just going to pitch about a third 'simple save status' into my new recipe of Newcastle dark ale. Not even sure what strain of yeast this...

Hello All, New to the brew scene. Getting ready to brew my third batch / 5 gallons,,,this one , of Newcastle dark ale recipe. Have read many tutorials , including the nice STICKY here in regard to harvesting your yeast cake and either doing the "simple method" or 'rinsing' method. Even...

Hello All, New to the brew scene. What are peoples thoughts on the Mr Beer (Deluxe) 740ml PET bottles that are offered on WalMart website. After examining some various softdrink PET bottles at WalMart the "Dad's" root beer bottles are a very heavy thickness that appear would be very...

Hello All, Brewed and bottled first two beer batches. Just curious. Never would have guessed trying to 'harvest' amber beer bottles that were usable for 'pry off tops' would even be a consideration. Know two different local people that run small bars in this rural community and both have...