Recent content by caspider

So 1 week ago I had a great brew day. Everything went great and we made a nice AG Irish Stout. After sitting in the primary for 1 week I then transferred to secondary to sit for 14-21 more days. As I was cleaning my carboy that I use for the primary, I was dumping all the sludge and yeast at the...

i would follow these instuctions and make yourself a wort chiller... once you have one you'll wonder why you ever did ice baths. http://www.olderascal.com/brewing/wortchiller/index.html

I also have a 3 keg setup and usually force carb at 30psi for 2 days then take a taste test. on most my beers that puts them at the perfect level of carb. i have had a few that need to sit alittle bit longer but i just put my regulator down to 10-12 and let it slowly get up to the right carb...

I use the 2 5gal igloo cooler method like that from midwest and love it! I made an AG oatmeal stout 2 weeks ago with them and everything worked perfectly. (even with a total of 12lbs of grain. it fills right up to the top but still leaves enough room for the lid.) Temps held strong at 155. Will...

I like to keep all my ales right around 68-71 and they turn out great every time. 70 should be perfect.

Thanks guys... just got done with the transfer and it worked great!! there was a ton of sediment at the bottom so i'm glad i did this!

Is it ever ok to also just pop off the top and look in just to see how much beer/head is in there?

I noticed that one of my wheat beers that I have recently kegged has alot of sediment at the bottom so I'm thinking that I should transfer it to a different keg. The beer is already carbonated so I'm afraid that if I rack it to the other keg I'm going to have to deal with a lot of foaming... Is...

So after letting out some foam with no gas attached it is running better and i was able to get some drinkable beer... so when the pressure has dropped to where it won't pour any more should I be safe to reconnect the gas at ~10PSI for serving again?

So tonight was my first night of ever using a keg. As i've seen in video's online you can force carbonate in like 15 min by turning the PSI up to 30 and rolling the cold keg back and forth on the ground for like 15 min. So I thought I would give it a try... (i'm really excited to try this whole...