Recent content by johnt_mn

Do you add 1/10th gram CBC-1 to each bottle, or add the amount needed for ALL bottles to your priming solution for the whole batch? If you add to each bottle, how do you measure such a small amount?

OK you're way beyond me, equipment wise. I just use a 6 gallon kettle on the stove and plastic buckets. Sounds like the immersion chiller for that unit might be undersized? Just not enough surface area between wort and chiller fluid. If there's a way to add more wort motion across the chiller...

Are you stirring the wort while cooling? I stir until I get a whirlpool going and it accelerates the cooling greatly. I don't even use ice water in the immersion cooler, just my cold tap water (high 50's temp) and I can cool the 200+ degree wort down to 90 in about 15 minutes. Granted I do...

I don't think the original poster has replied at all in this long thread, unless I missed it. Definitely LOTS of good thoughts and ideas here.

Ha, I had better luck. My state's drinking age changed from 21 to 18 a few months before my 18th birthday, then switched back to 21 a few years after I turned 21 :D

Heileman's Special Export at a kegger in High School. We thought it was the "cool" beer haha. It used to be brewed in La Crosse Wisconsin, about an hour from where I lived.

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Thanks for the ideas everyone. I think when I try my next big beer, I'll have most of the kinks worked out, three times a charm. Things I did this time to fix a very weak fermentation on the previous attempt: 1. used a yeast that was one month old rather than five - Imperial A41 Tartan yeast...

The blow-off setup uses a hose connected to the tube inside a three piece airlock. The airlock tube is fairly small diameter and the end inside the bucket tapers to a point with three vertical slots in it. I think those slots plugged up with junk from the krausen. Next time I think I should...

Just to wrap up this thread. I ended up brewing another beer (an extract KOA coconut porter kit) using Imperial Yeast A07 Flagship using a starter with stir plate and it worked great! Powerful fermentation. After a week I moved the porter to a secondary and then transferred the beer discussed...

Ha, I bet you're right 🤣

To each his own. It sounds like you're quite a serious brewer making many many beers. I'll probably never make more than a couple per year and enjoy seeing visible signs of the process, and my fermenter is in the basement so no UV issues. Cheers.

I think I'm going to get a clear or at least translucent fermenter. Would be nice to get an idea of what's going on without pulling the cover off. Sounds like a great idea.

I measured SG today and it was 1.034, yay! So it dropped 4 points in the first three days and almost 50 points in the following two days. And it tasted really good, no off flavors. Maybe this will finish nicely after all. Things I've learned for next time: 1. pay close attention to...

That's not a bad idea, throw it in a secondary (I've got a plastic carboy) and then brew another batch correctly and compare the two later. Hmmm.