Recent content by howdo

About a month fermenting. No control of temp, but if I had to guess I would say low to mid 70's. I have since realized the importance of temperature control during fermentation. I think like you I might be migrating to kegging. My bottles exploded in the kitchen and I can't believe my wife...

The temperature did likely change drastically in the days before, we have some weird whether in chicago. The beer may have been refrigerated for a short time over the 1 year since bottling. The target FG was 1.012, and I measured 1.014 at bottling. One weird thing during fermentation was...

I brewed and bottled a dunkelweizen about a year ago. I wasn't crazy about the taste so I had about 10 left over. Several weeks ago, a couple of the bottles exploded, within a couple of hours. I really want to understand why this could possibly happen so it doesn't happen again. I would hate to...

I reread my post. When I said "I enjoy that stuff too it" sounds like I enjoy the "Racial/continental discrim...". Thats not what I meant. I meant I enjoy a good debate about political stuff. See, the earlier post was right , sometimes it is hard to get the exact connnotation with text. :) My...

I enjoy all of that stuff too. I just don't want to see on the brew forum. There are plently of other forums that would love that kind of stuff. But, maybe you're right and it's no big deal. I've already wasted enough mental energy on this that could have been applied towards drinking or...

I had to re-read this a couple of times because I couldn't believe it. Did the original poster from Australia somehow make the jump from brewing to bashing Americans? Wow. I'm sure he/she will defend the comment somehow, but I really don't get how "pre-emptive" strikes and the political...

Should I be cleaning the plastic parts (siphon tube, racking cane, plastic fermenter, bottling spigot) after each use? Right now I only rinse these parts with water. I use PBW for the carboy and the brew pot. Can/should I use PBW for the plastic parts too? Thanks, Howdo