Recent content by LamIAm

First time using Wyeast. Got a smack pack with my brew supplies and left it all in the bag on the counter. 14 hours later, I remembered and had my daughter put it in the fridge. I'm guessing I'm fine since I didn't smack it but just to be sure, am I ok?

I'm not discounting my grind was horrible. I could have mashed too high, that's for sure. I was lazy and did not scrape the krausen ring on my brew bucket before I poured the beer on top of the existing yeast cake so no way to know. Reading your response makes me feel better that I...

Let me rephrase because I don't think my original post was well written :) If I had zero fermentation going on, the 1.025 could have been static for the four days between brew and when I checked. That's why I was wondering if it was possible to brew something at 1.025. The recipe called for an...

Long story short, I tried my first BIAB while grinding my own malts. The recipe called for 12 lbs of grain total. Bad grind combined with not taking any readings and a leaking fermenter is making me worried. I brewed on a Sunday and forgot to check gravity until Thursday. It was at 1.025...

Thanks ODI3. I'm debating whether to try to make a copper autosiphon out of the end or just suck to create the siphon.

I got one of these from a local brewer. Never seen or heard of it before. Anyone have any details? I know where wort and water goes in/out but is it essentially just a copper coil and the tube is filled with cold water?

There's a "vintage" Landers mill local to me for $30. Is this going to be the best bang for the buck in terms of mill?

This is my noob ignorance; but why would i need the AJ to ferment if I was adding to the keg?

That's kind of what I was going for. My wife wanted a Coors Lite clone. I wanted something better. One teaspoon of triple sec for 12 oz is tasty but a tad too much orange. I'll experiment a little more but this isn't exactly the worst problem to have.

I can't bring myself to dump alcohol. When I was a poor college student many years ago, I had to budget my beer/liquor and dumping beer goes against my principles. I've thought about making a BL Clamato Chelada out of it. I have enough bottles I could just bottle it and get the Heff on in the...

I brewed an all extract beer for the light beer drinkers around here. 4 lbs of LME, 2 lbs of Rice Syrup, and .5 oz x 2 of hop pellets that i cannot remember (I think Willamette and something??). Its been in the keg for 2.5 weeks now and I just don't like the flavor - or lack of. It goes between...

I only have a three tap set up and wifey loves her cider. I am usually hesitant to put a cider on tap because, while I like cider, I don't want to give up a tap. In theory, could I fill 2 or 3 liter soda bottles, use the carbonator cap to carb, than pour into bottles and cap? Would I lose too...

Perfect. This was what I was looking for!

My primary fermenters are all in my basement. I wanted to move them into my garage to crash, which is upstairs. I have a feeling it'll get shaken up quite a bit. Is it worth it to crash if everything is getting mixed around? Should I just rack into the keg in my basement and skip crashing?

So I broke down and decided to check gravity. OG was 1.055. Today, it was 1.022, so there is obviously fermentation. I wonder if pitching the yeast when it was a little too warm caused it to super ferment.