Recent content by Nummey

Overly saturated market, way more choices available and it's overpriced! Twelve packs of Stone IPA are $23 where I live..

Exactly this.....I also spray a piece of aluminum foil and ball it up around the spigot, probably not necessary but why not

I keg but started out bottling (with bottling bucket etc) and still bottle occasional smaller batches. What I did to make things easier when bottling now: 1. Installed a spigot on my primary (just above trub level) 2. Attached bottling wand to the spigot 3. Use carb tabs for...

Looking to make a pale ale with and Cascade and EKG. Small bittering charge at 60 then an ounce each of Cascade and EKG at 10 minutes and flameout. Anyone have any experience with this hop combo....do they play well together? thanks

Take a look at this video from Basic Brewing. I did a similar brew back in March and cut the specialty grains out (you could leave them, not really a time strain) - so it was basically light DME and hops. Came out very good, not as good as my all grain batches but a good pipeline filler...

Any threads discussing the use of fancy overpriced beer guns and oxygenation wands. IMO, both are extremely overrated and unnecessary on the 5-10 gallon homebrew front.

Beat me to it - have read every reply and am salivating for an IPA right now!

Sure, I've bottled directly from the fermenter (big mouth bubbler with spigot) before without issue. I cut a small piece of hose and connected it to the spigot then connected the hose to a bottle filling wand and used carb drops for carbonation (dont forget these). You do suck up a bit of...

This is definitely a stretch but something that I recently came across and adjusted favorably. You mention you have well water that is very hard - are you using this water to mix your star san? I've read extremely hard water can render starsan ineffective. I also have very hard well water...

In my experiences a beer gun is a complete overpriced gadget and a waste of money. I routinely fill bottles from the keg using just the party tap (nothing attached) and haven't experienced any loss of carbonation, staling or infections of any sort. The key is to set the PSI really low when...

So I got my siphonless Big Mouth Bubbler and brewed a hoppy pale ale on Friday (today is Wednesday). The recipe had 5 oz of hops that I just threw in the boil.... Here's a picture of the trub. You can see its above the spigot. Having only used buckets in the past, should I expect this trub...

Thanks guys.... Moops, yes, Ill let the hops steep a bit before cooling. How long you reckon is long enough for this amount of hops?

Not sure as I've never used these hops in the past. 5 Gallon Batch OG - 1.059 IBU 65.42 SRM 6.98 11 LBS 2 Row (93.6%) .75 LBS Crystal 40 (6.4%) .5 OZ Magnum at 60 1OZ Nelson Sauvin @10 1OZ Galazy @10 1OZ Nelson Sauvin @0 1OZ Galaxy @0 Yeast - US-05

Geeze, this entire miscommunication/misinterpretation could have been avoided by the OP saying to the associate, "What do you mean?" Good on NB for opening an account here and giving an explanation.

Just ordered a siphonless one the other day for hopefully ease in racking to keg, taking gravity samples and 1 off bottling with carb tabs. Have read pretty good reviews about siphonless option so we'll see. As for sanitary, you'd just need to clean thoroughly after transfer and of course...