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Hello all, I haven't been active here for a while due to a move and some family health concerns that have put a damper on my brewing. I've decided to clean out the freezer so we actually have space for frozen peas and what not. Price includes shipping to CONUs
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the Liquid Nails website says you can use Petroleum Jelly to soften the adhesive- also says over 140 degrees will soften it enough to be pliable. A heat gun on low would probably work great.
+1 on NO airlock- the Brits fermented for hundreds of years (and still do) with open fermentation. I'd put a piece of tin foil over the top of the fermenter just to keep stuff from falling in, maybe after the initial big fermentation is over, replace it with another sanitized piece of foil...
I'll usually chock things like that up to a bad day- give it some time, maybe let them tweak the recipes and get some good feedback, then hit them up in 1-3 months. If you have a bad experience again, there's plenty of fish in the sea as it were. No sense spending money and hanging out...
Even if it's sweet now, sometimes it will feel drier once you carbonate- or just carb a little higher than you might otherwise. Plus lots of dry hopping to cover the sweetness. I probably wouldn't have messed with it, and just drank it as is, and think about recipe formulation for the next batch.
I bought a sizer of bottles of my favorite IPa this week. It was within 3 months of bottling. Drank the first one and it was delicious. Drank the second-OXIDIZED. I'm sick and damn tired of buying bottles and having them taste like cardboard.
Also saying glass recycles as easily as aluminum is...
I bought the farm /hi lift jack this week for a fencing project (jerks that owned the house prior put in a 4ft chain link that had 3 feet of concrete under it). It worked really well and is plenty sturdy.