Recent content by Erbun

I saw a swamp cooler mentioned, can't recommend that enough if you can't afford to go to a temp controlled fermentation chamber yet, like I can't:) Just take a cheap plastic tub, fill it about half with water (With the carboy in), and cycle out frozen bottles of water as needed to keep your...

Just to add - It sounds like you were having the same problem I had when I started a year ago - High fermenting temps. No matter how much I sterilized, I would get a nasty smell and taste. I was starting to get frustrated, even thought about giving up, until I realized that the temperature...

As a former yat yas'r myself, this made me do a double take lol. To the OP, I gave up trying to keep trub out of the carboy for fermentation. Decided it was far easier and cheaper to just use a secondary.

Take into consideration too your water availability/temperature. I live in South Florida and just made a chiller with the parts listed from Home Depot this past weekend and tried it out, took me about 2 1/2 hours to go from boil to anywhere near temps low enough to start transfer (I gave up at...

Wait, question. Still new so I apologize if this is a dumber question, but... How is Malt Extract processed? From my understanding it's just regular wort that's been dehyrdrated to a point to provide ease of transport.