Recent content by garf6819

The Plastic does retain odors. I am wondering if some of the stronger yeast strains like Wyeasts Belgian Ale, which has much the same "puke" odors, is embeded in the plastic brew buckets I'm using???

It has been 3 months and the beer that I decided to keep has turned out nicely. I kept a few in the fridge and a few on the shelf and both taste as expected.

There's sales tax on prepared BBQ here too. Oh well gonna start my taxed Scottish Ale . Memphis Ribs are awesome. "Bubba" served me up a few from his rib hole behind the Peabody Hotel. You gotts go there just for the ribs. But I don't know if you can call that BBQ, I think it deserves its...

Oh well yer not invited. But I do have to say Kansas does have some awesome BBQ.

Yall better believe it... I'll bring the mesquite!

Technically we live in Texas where there is no Tax on food items.

We are charged tax if we purchase from an on-line-in-state merchant. We are charged tax if we drive down to the corner HBS, we are charged tax constantly. Out of state merchants are always tax free.

My buddies and I were having this discussion about taxes on the beer ingredients. We live in Texas and apparently we have been buying ingredients from HB stores and being charged tax on these items. In Texas all unprepared food products are tax free. The ingredients in beer are unprepared food...

Update... I now have 3 batches that all have this odor/flavor. HMMM... OXYCLEAN ! I am not rinsing enough. I have used OXYCLEAN to clean the bottles and buckets. I know the bottles are well rinsed but the buckets have been neglected. I'm not 100% sure but I was able to deduce this because I...

I used a dry yeast packet (I don't have a clue the brand) but you pretty much dead nailed the smell. I will hold on a while and pray to the beer gods. Thanks everyone :rockin:

I love you guys. I knew there was still hope in those little yeasties. My fermentation temp was not higher than 74f but never got below 68f.

I just opened my first bottle of Belgian Wheat and it smells and tastes nasty. I had almost asked my son to throw out his gym socks that were laying on the floor until I realized it wasn't his socks that smelled but instead my beer. When I racked it from the primary last week the bucket had a...

It is cool. I like the "timers"

A blade will quickly slice through the milk jug and the idea could accompany icewater in the bathtub, or boiling 3 gallons of wort and then adding 1 gallon ice and 1 gallon cooled water. The scenarios would be countless but the basic idea is to stick 1 gallon of ice in the hot wort. I just...

This will be my second batch so forgive this crazy idea but what about boiling a gallon of water, filling up a sanitized container (like a milkjug) and freezing it the night before the brew. Voila you have a gallon of ice ready to pitch into your 4 gallons of hot wort when you put it in the...