Recent content by Jerkwad

Just an update here, you are all absolutely right and I am an idiot :) Appreciate the help, how standard are the fittings for these faucets or will I be buying a few dozen from home depot and seeing which one fits?

Yeah I'll give another look at the faucet, unfortunately it came with the house when I bought it so I don't have any kind of documentation or model to go off on.

I've considered running a hose and that's definitely an option in the summer, however I'm up north where we'll be consistently at, below, or near freezing for the entire duration of winter. I'm fairly confident the hose bibs are not frost free ones.

I'm pretty new and looking at buying an immersion chiller, however I don't really have a place to hook the thing up to my sink. My faucet has the sprayer built inline and the nearest other faucet is down a small flight of stairs and I'm not that comfortable with the idea of carrying 5 gallons of...

It's from a local cider mill, UV treated. I'm only doing 1 gallon. 48hrs before I pitched yeast I crushed up 1 campden tablet.

Temperature fluctuates between 63 and 65, its in my basement. I pulled a sample yesterday and racked it and re-pitched and immediately got more active fermentation that is still continuing today. My SG was 1.051 and the one I pulled was 1.049.

Hey everyone. I'm new here. I'm doing my first home brewing, I'm doing 1 gallon of cider and 1 gallon of brown ale. I started fermentation about 3 days ago. The beer is going strong. The cider however is showing very little activity, and about 1/4th inch of lees at the bottom of the vessel. I'm...