Recent content by Jared36

Kind of sounds similar to my fermentor stock. Just thinking of using the buckets for grain storage and was reading somewhere that stained buckets were no good for primarys. So I thought I would ask and see what everyone thought. Thanks for the response always nice to get others opinions.

I have three buckets that have had several batches in them and I usually soak them with pbw. I can never get the smell out of them. I guess I should have asked how many batches can you get out of a bucket before you retire it?

Will a stained primary bucket with slight beer odor have any ill effect on final product.

Thanks for the quick responses and advice! Hopefully in the near future I'll be able to get a bigger kettle but until then I can use some of the advice given. Thanks everyone!

So my real problem is that I only have a 7.5 gallon kettle and I am starting with 6 - 6.5 gallons which doesn't leave much room. That aside I was wondering if say 5 minutes after the first hop addition I were to have a boil over how would it affect the ibu's in the end.

I recently was giving 3 five gallon glass carboys full of 10 year old wine. I have emptied the wine into bottles and soaked the carboys with oxy-clean. One of the carboys has light scratching on the inside. Was wondering if cleaned well and sanitized with star san if it would be ok to use as a...

make a time capsule out of it

I had brewed up a honey wheat about 4 months ago.. I added 2 lbs. of honey at 30min. I was told that it was to bring out more honey flavor in the final product. The beer turned out great allot of people loved it... At first it tasted allot like wine and was really dry but after about a month...

thanks for the input going to head to the brew shop and pick up some grains and brew up a stout

if you have a hose inside the rubber grommet it might be to small and get plugged

if you got a 3 piece airlock you can attach it to the center

as long as you got a tight fit. but you might want to get something a lil bigger than a cup so that it doesnt tip over

you could use your siphon hose

I work at an ethanol plant in ohio and we deal with fermentis and let me tell you those guys are wacko, we have a 5000 gallon (pretty much conical ferm.) that we use to rehydrate the yeast in, when we first started using fementis I personally dealt with a few of the guys from the company and one...

So I have 2 lbs. of dry dark extract and 4 pounds of light liquid extract. Has anyone every combined something like this before and if so how did it turn out?