Oh my god. Why did you buy a kegging system and not read about kegging beer beforehand? When you keg there are pretty much three options:
1) put the beer in the keg. pressurize the keg and then quickly carbonate it by shaking it. Co2 will not enter the beer unless it is already cold. But if...
Sounds kind of dumb. I think it makes sense to kind of build up to the making of a really good product. But you'll probably end up with beer nonetheless.
Also I'm super f'ick wasted rihgt now.
I was pretty concerned about this when I started brewing and had a couple of conversations with the good folks at Midwest. I was told that although it's never a good idea to carb in the regular cheap screw cap growlers, there are growler's that are made for carbing such as this one (pic below)...
I've only done five batches and all were with a 32 qt pot over just one large ceramic stove top (radiant-ribbon style) burner. I did full 5 gal boils with all of them and all grain BIAB mashes with three of them. All were excellent finished products! To go from the mash to a rolling boil does...
I agree about the pro's of bottling. I've only bottled three 5 gal batches but my time and stress of bottling has gone down significantly after perusing some of the tutorials on here (especially revvy's). I take my brews on the go with me quite a bit to game night, poker night, picnics, etc so a...
I made four crates using this plan, but modified the 10 in 1x2's to 10.5 in to accommodate a few really tall bottles in my collection. I then bumped them down 0.5 in to make the crates stackable. I printed on them using an inkjet printer to wax paper method describe on this blog. It actually...