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it's been a long while since i bottled but from what i've read gelatin drop yeast out of suspension. some people say it depends on the yeast. i keg so i add gelatin when i keg and am force carbing. but when i naturally carb i don't add gelatin and just let the keg sit for a few weeks on the...

i use the brass inserts. I used to just drill a hole and screw it in with some glue like a savage but now i put a hole in slightly smaller than the insert with a few extra walls to ensure there is something solid to bite into.

so i brewed this with pils malt and red wheat flour from the grocery store. also 2 oz of each. bitter & sweet orange peel plus coriander. took it to a company picnic and they basically killed a 3 galllon keg. was maybe 4 beers left. my friends and i finished the rest of the 5 gallon keg i used...

a jasmine rice and pilsner "lager" made with Lutra and sorachi ace. it ended up needed some sorachi dry hopping because it had almost no flavor. now it's lite and tasty.

I have a gallon a mead I made maybe 6 or 7 yrs ago untouched in a glass jug sealed with minimal head space in the back of my spare fridge. It was sweetened with Asian pear juice and still the same yellowish clear so does not appear oxidized. I need to check it and if still good will bottle and...

I’m in western ny and the last few yrs my cones have not matured until mid September. I use an old dresser as an oast with a fan under it and last yr I had to use a small space heater under the fan to get them to dry because it was so cold and humid outside on the deck. This yr the oast is in...

yeah did you brew with it?

yeah, i've learned hops just do not distill well at all.

Just put a Black forest clone test batch in the fermenter and planning to make a rice lager with home grown sorachi ace next week.

old thread i know but i'm looking for something dark to brew during my little eclipse get together that i could drink over the summer and i think this will do.

i've never had this bandaid smell or flavor. for brewing or the few batches i've reduced. but i actually like the taste of my tap water. not so much in the next city though. so i get how each municipality's water tastes different despite it all coming from the same spot around here. It's because...

Looks like a washer motor. The little bowl on top of a motorized mill is funny to me. I’ve got a 5 gallon water jug with the bottom cut off as a hopper for mine now and looking for a way to use a motor or strap my drill down after sinking it in a table.

I ran about 12 gallons of old beer from various kegs i hadn't emptied as my first real attempt after the sacrificial run. i got about a cup and a half that didn't taste like stale beer and wet cardboard. an actual corn / wheat / barley mash came out much much nicer.

yep. strip then do a cut run. for the most part you will probably be past the foreshots by the time you get something coming off that smells and tastes decent. i just get a drop on my finger and rub into my hands to smell like hops then i'll get another drop and have a taste. you can tell if you...

i went with a stainless milk jug, a tri-clamp bulk head for the lid, and a copper kit off ebay with a tri-clamp ferule. the beauty about the milk jugs is the lid fits all sizes so you can get a small 3 gallon one then go up to a 15 if you decide 3 gallons is just too small and you won't have...