Recent content by joey

Since this really doesn't have much to do with fermentation, this is probably in the wrong section, sorry. Anyway I found the tube of silicone to confirm whether it puts off ammonia/methanol or acetic acid when curing, and it doesn't indicate. I tried looking it up online and I can't find the...

So I read a bit more about silicone and it seems that it puts of acetic acid and not ammonia (the caulking I used was 100% silicone I believe, but I'll make sure to verify this). I'm much less worried about this.

I recently bought a chest freezer and temperature controller to use as a fermentation chamber (I've been getting inconsistent results with my ales and I think it's because the temperature in the room I've been brewing in can swing pretty high unexpectedly). I applied silicone caulking to all...