Recent content by jacksnsixes

Good idea with the foil! Will do that next time we're chilling :)

Yes, we're using ordinary dishsoap to wash everything prior to sanitizing. That's why I said "wash" not "rinse".

Good idea - we'll definitely do this prior to our next brew. Thanks for the tip :)

Good to know. So that's the reason for the long lag time - do I need to wait for the gravity to be all the way down to like 1.004 or something, or can I just wait til it's at normal 1.015-17 range? Good point. i thought it was the yeast before as well. I'd been washing yeast and using the...

I'll do that. Because of the problems we've been having, we started immersing our boil pot in star-san prior to beginning the brew, and opening and closing the ball valve there to run sanitizer through it prior to the boil, just in case it doesn't get hot enough to sanitize the inside during the...

D'OH! I think we all just love our beer to much to have to dump it down the toilet...

We use sponges or plastic pads for cleaning fermentors and equipment, and all of our equipment was brand new when we got this latest infection. But we'll stop using scrubby pads anyway, even the plastic ones. We've been doing partial boils and adding bottled water - theoretically pure and...

We have and use Star-san on everything. However, we also soaked our fermentors in bleach water overnight prior to brew day, just to be sure. Our sanitation practices are sound. I brewed 11 batches prior to the infections starting with no problems at all, and when we had those batches get...

So...I know I know I know it's "REALLY HARD TO CONTAMINATE YOUR BEER", but I've managed to find myself in a building with mold problems, and of the 35 gallons currently in secondary fermentation, at least 15 are contaminated with some type of mold... It's awful, actually. This happened...