Recent content by frigante

Agreed - love the ability to keep a spray bottle of sanitizer around but I'm OK with refilling it each time I bottle and/or brew if it means paying half as much for OxySan over StarSan. Perhaps we pay much less in Canada for OxySan vs. StarSan which may be cheaper in the USA.

Thank you for your notes Tyler! I just found that the juice/grapes/wine shop around the corner from my house carries OxySan and used it last night for a brew session and it worked fine. My only problem was getting it to dissolve properly but as others have mentioned, I just kept rinsing with...

An update: the weisse in question (dubbed "Sprengenweisse" due to its explosive nature) turned out fantastic! I've got two bottles left that a close friend of mine has made me promise to reserve for him. I brewed the same recipe about 9 days ago (no explosions) and will be bottling tomorrow...

I love brewing beer!

Thanks dude!

Hi everyone! My wife and I started homebrewing in October of 2011 - we bought the Brooklyn Brew Shop "Everyday IPA" along with a few homebrewing books (most notably "Brew Craft") and haven't looked back! Since our first brew, we abandoned the kit and started designing our own all-grain...

Hello all - beginner here (on my 15th batch since October) doing all-grain 2 gallon batches on my stove. I made a nice 63% wheat malt weissbier on Sunday which started primary fermentation about 12 hours later. After 24 hours the kreusen had crept all the way out the blow-off tube and the...