Recent content by Graham H

This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with OP’s post. Your post should have its own thread (you’ll get better suggestions). If able, please move to new thread. In reference to your kettle-to-fermentation vessel transfer, have you considered running it through some kind of filter?

Ditto. Very responsive customer service.

I don’t recommend applying pressure to the dial face (push or pull). After you remove the dial cover, you should be able to see the mounting holes in the base of the pressure gauge. If you catch these with thin, rigid hook, you can work the gauge out of the casing. Easy? No, but doable...

Should you say that? Since you asked—no, I don’t believe you should.

Looking at the label, the store bought mead “contains sulphites.” I’m guessing that’s used to inhibit microbes, but I’m not a wine/mead expert…

First off—welcome! Are you stating SG is 1.010 or 1.001? Without all three digits to the right of the decimal, I don’t know if this is a typo or you just dropped the zero at the end. I know I’m guilty of plenty of typos… What was your OG? What yeast? There’s a chance you’ve already reached...

Cleaned and sanitized a keg that I had finally emptied on Saturday, then transferred my Little Red Riding Ale, fermenting since late January. Dropped it into the keezer and then went back to cleaning and sanitizing the fermenting keg.

I have the exact same bucket. The seal worked great for my first two fermentations, but after that—no bubbles in the airlock. I still use it for some of my batches, and haven’t had any problems yet.

If you’re hesitant, you could always cap it with a small square of aluminum foil, spritzed with sanitizer.

I’ve never used Grolsch brand bottles. When I swapped my generic swing top bottles’ rubber gaskets for silicone, it was an improvement. Maybe Grolsch gaskets are even better yet?

I’ve used replacement rubber and silicone gaskets, but the rubber ones were much less pliant than the silicone. I used the ones made by Otis for both types.

Oddly enough, all 100+ of my swing top bottles came from commercial beer. Very good commercial beer at that (Schwaben Brau). I do miss that brand… I tried using crimp-on caps once, but didn’t care for it—smaller bottles (355 vs 500ml) means I had to fill more bottles for the same batch size...

Are you using “O” shaped or circle shaped seals? I’ve only ever used flip-tops when bottling (had several cases before I even started homebrewing) and every once in a while I would get a bad seal. I replaced the existing washers with a full cap like the ones here: https://a.co/d/ejmwUfh I...

Do you mean adding the flavoring juice before stabilizing or after?

My blueberry cider just finished carbonating. Definitely tastes good, but I think next time I’ll ferment the apple juice, stabilize, and backsweeten with blueberry juice. The batch I’m drinking now was made with both apple and blueberry juice in primary, and I think that caused a loss of some...