Recent content by krause59

Hi, I've run into an issue, where my Double blast bottle washer no longer washes bottles, sometimes, if I'm lucky one side will work, while the other seems to be clogged and will either not do anything when you press down, or it'll spray water everywhere, except from the base, not the tip (so...

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That's exactly what happened to me the first time, and yes, seeing the brown ale splattered across the wall, and discovering glass shards everywhere was disturbing and sort of terrifying. I'm confused this time (my Ipa exploded last night) because I didn't move it around a whole lot and...

Be careful with the Saison yeasts...I brewed an IPA with one (about two months ago) thought I'd taken precautions (very little corn sugar) and just had an exploding bottle tonight. The saison yeasts seem to be extremely hungry.

I've run into explosions with three different batches, no bacterial infection that I noticed and fermentation (always secondary) had stopped, or at least slowed. The first time I'm pretty sure was because I had to move my homebrew and the batch was over carbonated to begin with...but this time...

Heya, I'm an extract brewer making the transition to all grain (soon as I can get my hands on a 10" ss false bottom) in the Chicago area (Currently Oak Park, moving soon to Hyde Park). Looking forward to finding a few new recipes and getting feedback on existing recipes. If anyone has...