Recent content by Mr Bigins

I prefer whole hops. Pellets are brown in color and I don't like that. I compare it to smoking Mexican dirt, or indoor skunk #1. They're sister related plants BTW.

I haven't worked with dry yeast in over 10 years. This is his first time brewing, I'm confused, when should he do this so that it won't affect the timing and tempature of when he should pitch the yeast? I use all glass, for fermenting and secondary. I prefer glass and it's handy to have...

It sounds to me like you could do it tomorrow night or Thursday. At least 1 week. :mug:

What do you have the other end of the blowoff tube in? You should have it submerged in a bucket of water to prevent air/contamanents getting into the fermenter.

No, I don't like the look of that recipe's ingredients. Once I checked out that link, I said "where is this guy". Turns out you're just down 169 from me in Mankato. Tell me you've been to Bandana Brew Pub where Dave Berg is the master brewer. He's also the president of the Minnesota Brewers...

You have plenty of glass carboys, if I were you, I wouldn't use the plastic fermenting bucket. Get some blowoff tubes and put water in the bucket and submerge the tubes in the water like so. And I would test the kegs if you plan on using them, the gaskets can go bad on them. And if...

Thanks for the help everyone, I can't believe I made it out to be difficult when it was so easy. I'm not new to brewing, I'm new to kegging. And man, the beer is just awsome. I love how it flows out alot like Guinus from the tap where it starts out foamy and then the beer races up the inside of...

This is what i would try to do. Brew the beer and put in primary, then transfer to seconary the day before you leave even if it hasn't been a full week. Hopefully at least 5 days though. After you transfer to secondary, place the carboy in the coldest area of the house as possible, like the...

Ok, what do you set your at?

Great, thanks guys. 1 more thing, the 2 levors below the regulators, in the picture you see one verical(straight up and down) and 1 tilted slightly. Where do I want to position those levors? Edit: And to condition I want the PSi to be 25 right? Then when I'm ready to pour bring it down to...

This is the first time ever working with a 5lb CO2 canister and regulators. I have this CO2 regulators. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/products/ProdByID.aspx?ProdID=4884 When I connect this to the CO2 canister I'm unable to get the CO2 to open up. Looking at it closer, do I need to do...

Do you do your fermenting in plastic?

And where EXACTLY did I say that? I know Dave Berg the president of the Minnesota Brewer's association who got the law passed in Minnesota for brew pub's to sell 1 gallon grawlers, and I tell you this. He NEVER stores his beer in plastic at Bandana's Brew Pub in Mankato MN where he's the...

You'll never catch me doing that. I have a plastic bootling bucket, but now that I keg, my beer never comes in contact with plastic. I have 3 - 5 gallon glass carboys. Then I use the third one to transfer to secondary, clean and sanitize the dirty carboy and transfer the 2nd brew into...

And your point is? :drunk: