Recent content by jjphillybrew

Hello all, I am flying to Colorado later today and I would like to bring a few of my latest batch to share with friends. Does anyone know if home brew will be fine if I check it in my suitcase? I did read somewhere online that it could explode. Thoughts? Any experience with this...

The wort was in the 70-80 range and now it is in the basement where it is probably 68-70 degrees.

Brewed the NB caribou slobber two days ago. Yesterday I went to check on it only to find that the all sani/water in the airlock had "exploded" out onto the top of the bucket. I put more sani/water in and it did it again. So I switched to my other airlock for the heck of it. (Not the "S"...

Ok, thank you for the advice! I did aerate the top off water and wort pretty well, but I may have over topped off.

Both yesterday and today I brewed and both times my OG was lower than the recipe indicated. Yesterday I brewed a Barleywine with OG of 1.082, mine read 1.072. Today I brewed an English brown ale with OG of 1.052 and mine was 1.042. 1. What are some of the possible reasons this is...

This link (http://beerdujour.com/Howtobrewabigbeer.htm) talks about "rousing" the yeast 3 times a day. So I should shake it 3 times a day during first two weeks or so?

Can my bottling bucket also serve as a primary fermentation vessel? I'll probably buy another bucket or carboy in a few weeks, so would only use it for one batch in the meanwhile. Thanx

Making a chocolate milk stout, the recipe calls for secondary and then add cacao nibs 2 weeks before bottling. Because I am adding something, does that mean that I HAVE to secondary this brew? I have read on this site about only transferring to secondary if dry hopping or making other...

OG is 1.082 Recipe: Specialty Grain: 0.5 lbs Briess Caramel 90 LME: 3 lbs Amber (60 min) and 9 lbs Amber (15 min) Hops: 2 oz Cascade (60 min) and 1 oz Williamette (15 min) Yeast: Wyeast 1945 NB Neobritannia or Safale US-05 I thought I read somewhere on this site that it wasn't recommendable...

I will be brewing a barleywine next week, my first high gravity beer. Considering the time commitment, I want to make sure that I know what I'm doing ahead of time. A few questions: 1. Northern Brewer recommends liquid Wyeast using a starter. How necessary/important is this? I purchased...

Planning to buy another carboy, not sure between 5 g and 6.5 g yet but my question is where is the cheapest place to buy one? Thank you, Jeremy

At home I have some of the narrow tubing I use when I bottle. Can I use this or does it need to be a wider diameter? I live near Lowe's and Home Depot...what diameter do I need?

All I have is some narrow tubing, not the wider ones I see used as blow off tube...can I use this or does it need to be wider?

Nevermind the 2 LHBS near me are both closed on Monday...ha...is there anything else i can do?

Can I take the airlock off and leave it off while I run to the LHBS (5 min away) or is that a no-no?