Recent content by midyrvt

I am setting up my system and can't decide between the perlick 630ss or the 650ss. I understand that the one has flow control, which can help with foaming, but if you your system up right, it's not needed? What does everyone think?

Awesome!! That is exactly what I have been trying to do, lol. Hopefully if will be my own homebrew soon

Ok so I have an update, the next day I put the fermentor in a swamp cooler. I now have a cool brew cooler that it is happily sitting in. Here Is the bad thing: I noticed that 3 days into the fermentation the airlock basically stopped. I didn't think much of this since I read on the forums...

Ok will do. Do you think the higher temp will affect the beer even though it will only be exposed to it for 24hrs

Ok will do. Do you think the higher temp will affect the beer even though it will only be exposed to it for 24hrs?

Awesome, thanks guys for all of your help! It's kind of funny how you need to modify things here in the islands. I will try to move the beer to the cooler location ASAP. I will try those different yeasts next time. Is there any issue with transporting the fermentor? Like it splashing around a...

The yeast was safale us-05 ale yeast, the temp is the room temp, I live in Hawaii where many houses including my own have no ac :( I will be moving it up the mountain where it should be a bit cooler but I can not do that until tonight. It was brewed yesterday

I just brewed my first beer, a pumpkin ale, placed it in a plastic fermenter with a 3 piece airlock (starsan in the airlock). Room temp around 78 (proper temp for the yeast though on the high end). This morning when I woke up, the airlock was not bubbling and the liquid was a little low, I...