Recent content by GodOfThunder

A friend of mine got a Braumeister, so I'm going to use it for my first all grain batch. I am going after a Smoked Porter, with a good amount of smoke flavor. I understand this is a borderline Smoked Stout, too. I wanted a pretty robust porter/stout to stand up to the smoke. 6.5lb...

No, I haven't ran the numbers. This is actually only my second batch, and I was just winging it based on your recipe, and hoping for the best. :cross: I just ran them on another calculator and get OG 1.074, 79IBUs. Hopefully 1.019 FG. Seems pretty good... I know what I have isn't...

I'm planning on doing an extract version of this, that is slightly more beefed up. Here's my recipe so far... 1 lb. Carafoam malt (steeping) 1 lb. Caramel Wheat malt (steeping) 1 lb. Melanoiden Malt (steeping) 6lb. light LME (at 155) 3lb. wheat LME (at 155) 1.00 oz Citra with 20...

Okay. Like I said, dumb question. I wasn't putting the ball lock on correctly. I was just pushing it down, and not pulling up on the plastic piece that covers the balls. Damn. I feel like a moron, but have never messed with a corny before. Thanks for the brief help, anyway. I was...

Yes, it is ball lock. I have nothing on the "out" post. What could I use to push down the center pin? I just don't want to break anything. I don't have a wrench to take the posts off, I will get one tomorrow. Luckily I only have sanitizer in there now and haven't moved my beer from the...

This is going to be a dumb question, but I’m trying to keg up my beer and can’t get the gas into the keg. I’ve never used a corny keg before, but I’ve used Sankey, so I have some idea of what to do. I put the plastic adapter thing on the keg and turned the gas on and nothing goes into the keg...

I'm force carbonating in a keg, so that shouldn't be a problem. I only had it in primary for a week.

I racked my first recipe into secondary yesterday and had a question, I'll post the full recipe below. My OG was about 1.043. I took a reading when racking it over and it read about 1.019. I wanted a low alcohol beer, but this is only about 3.1% after calculating. Should I expect some more...