Recent content by dvizard

Hi, I wonder: everyone (including Palmer) seems to be all about how a beer can easily get oxidized when you transfer it to secondary, and that beginners should be careful with it. At the same time, many advocate transferring the beer off the trub to a bottling bucket for adding priming sugar...

Hi, I got myself a nice beverage fridge from Ebay for 50$, which (after extensive cleaning. Baaah) looks like this, without and with a cover for the cooling system: It will hold one 6.5G plastic fermenter. I measured it with my temperature logger and it performs nicely as I want it -...

Thanks for the tips!

Hi, I got an old plastic fermenter from a friend, she used to make wine in it. It is clean and everything but there is that slight scent of wine in it, (probably from some of the heavier compounds in wine that sorb to the plastic?) What is the best way to get this scent out? If I use...

Thanks for the answers! Today bottle carb period was over and I could try the beer for the first time, no problems at all from suspended whatever, everything bottomed out nicely. So I was worrying too much. I had bad suspicions from taking a sip of the near-trub after bottling but that will have...

Hi, I have a 200um mesh filter bag (http://www.brauundrauchshop.ch/100/con_liste.asp?prono=2301&ica=26&vSearch=&nCurPage=&sStartPageNext=&caller=list). Since during my first batch I probably had problems from suspended hop particles from dry hopping (I still have to find out, not tasted it...

Hi, I'm currently running my first batch, a kinda-blonde ale, 21 IBU, 12L (2.5G), extract with steeped CaraHell. It's going well so far. Primary fermentation is over and went kinda very fast - SG was at 1.010 after 2 days and is still stably there after 5 days - but flavor seems to be turning...