Recent content by DPveritasGold

Well, it spewed a lot of yeast out of the blow off tube and now the fermentation had slowed down. So, the fact that fermentation got strong enough to do that I see as a good sign. Also this is WLP400 which foams up heavily.

Yeah I did. I think the thread is galled to the point where there's no way I'll be able to get it off now.

So I brewed a belgian wit yesterday and after getting it into the fermenter I went to oxygenate the wort only to find that my O2 tank was empty. I have another tank, but the regulator would not come off the old tank so I was stuck. At this point I don't know whether I should try and get a new...

Great info! That definitely helps.

Yes I did. I pumped CO2 through the stone at like 30 psi until the tank pressure hit 15 psi. At that point I sampled it and it wasn't carbonated enough. So I flowed more CO2 through the stone while bleeding pressure from the blowoff valve to keep the pressure at around 15 psi. I repeated this...

So I just recently bottled my blueberry weissen which came out great (except the carbonation...keep reading). This was my first batch using my new 14 Gallon SS Brewtech Unitank and Blichmann BeerGun. I burst carbed the beer and the samples I tasted were perfect. Then I burst carbed just a tad...

I brewed a batch of this last weekend. OG was 1.046 and after 1 week of fermentation the SG is currently at 1.022. I'm really worried about this. I feel like I should be much closer to FG at this point. I pitched 1 packet of rehydrated US05 to 5 gal wort and it's been sitting at 65 deg F. Should...

The Belgian wit that I bottled was one of the best wits I've ever had. I had a keezer by the time I did a second batch of it so I legged the second batch and it was terrible. In wondering if possibly something went wrong during kegging. If you end up figuring this out let me know.

I need some advice on WLP320 American Hefe yeast. I made a 3L starter for my brew this weekend on Tuesday, January 19, and to this point it never really showed any real signs of fermentation. I didn't see much bubbling or krausen or anything so I'm afraid I got a bad vial. The expiration date on...

I need some advice on WLP320 American Hefe yeast. I made a 3L starter for my brew this weekend on Tuesday, January 19, and to this point it never really showed any real signs of fermentation. I didn't see much bubbling or krausen or anything so I'm afraid I got a bad vial. The expiration date on...

I know this won't help you tonight, but order one of these ASAP for your fermenter. I've been using this in my fermenting freezer this winter and it's worked great. Note that you MUST have this regulated by a temperature controller or it will get way too hot...

In honor of this thread I've decided that I'm going to brew a Crystal 40 Mosaic SMaSH. :mug:

Hello all, I showed up at my home brew store today to buy my ingredients for the pecan porter I plan on brewing tomorrow when I ran into an issue. My LHBS was totally out of base 2 row malt which my recipe calls for 7.5 pounds of. The closest thing he had to substitute was Belgian 2L Pilsner...

The main potential issue that I can think of is the fact that if you make red wine it will be served at beer temperatures.

If it's only $40 more I'd go for the bigger one. I actually own the 5.0 cu ft one that you're talking about. It serves as my fermentation chamber and so far I haven't had any problems with it.