Recent content by MacKozi

The idea of having the lid wide open in my grimey closet with spiders and what not is enough to frighten me. Good thing I only invested a few days into it before I ruined it and not any longer.

Thanks for all the advice. Unfortunately I had to throw the batch out anyway. When I came home for work yesterday I had ALOT of activity in the airlock and wort was going into it and I neglected to do anything about it and when I woke up this morning I found that the lid was blown off and ****...

Should I be worried about any other toxic materials that could have been in the galvanized coating? Like anti rust chemicals or anything. There was a slight black layer of grime on it when I pulled it from the Star San. The paint stirrer only came in contact with my wort for about 30 seconds...

Damn I was really excited about this brew. So should I toss the batch or no? It just started fermenting. What are the real taste/possible health concerns because most of the plating probably just diluted in the Star San tub, right?

I left my carboy brush and mixer, I uses for aerating wort, in a 5 gallon buck of Star San and noticed that they changed color below the water line after about and hour of being in there. Does anyone know what happened? And also I still used the mixer to aerate my batch. Could I have harmed my...