Recent content by Ryan1977

General speaking with a five gallon carboy is the head space enough room during primary fermentation...or is it necessary to have a blow off line setup?

Thanks Gents!!! sounds good!!!! I'll make sure to use the "exact measurement" of two handfuls on brew day... Cheers, Ryan

slow down...First off, are you trying to do a partial-mash with some two-row malt or specialty grains i.e Chocolate Malts?...Secondly you never boil the Malts or grains in with your wort boil.

I'm doing my first AG...should I mix in some Rice hulls with this batch? I'm going to have 1/2 lb of Wheat Malt, and 1/2 lb of flaked wheat in this recipe....Also, this is going to sound silly but should I crush the Rice hulls? I would guess you don't, since the only value to having them in the...

That's interesting....It does seem really clear. I just bottled my first Belgian Wit Wednesday as a matter of fact, and I looked at a bottle today and it seems oddly clear...I did throw some Irish moss in the brew kettle with 15 minutes left. Is that a "no-no" for a Wit?...just curious if anyone...

I have a question for everyone. What is your opinion on the "sanitize cycle" in the dishwasher?...I conducted a trial run with just bottles in my dishwasher yesterday. When I opened it up and inspected the bottles...they were screamin hot. This leads me to believe that they have to be sanitized...

So...let me ask you this. Could I switch the cascade from the cream ale and use the saaz instead?...and use the cascade as a finishing/aroma hop for the Witbier

I have the following hops available for my next two brews....which would you use, please specify if you feel like Cream Ale: cascade Witbier: german tradition and czech saaz I was thinking of using the german tradition as the bittering hop and czech saaz for the finishing hop for the...

I'm just impatient that's what's going on....

I'm pretty confident that my refractometer is accurate. However; I did get 3 days of very active fermentation, which made 1.5 inch Krausen head...WTF is going on?

Thanks Gents Cheers

So my brew has been in the primary fermentor now for 5 days exactly and I was able to draw a sample out via the bottom spigot...the hydrometer reading was 1.048 and the activity has decreased dramatically. I had a nice 1 inch Krausen head on it for 4 days which has subsided over the last 24 hrs...

I'm obviously a Noobie...However; I was curious, is there such a thing as too much yeast?... I'm giving the Mr. Beer thing a shot, but I've always been a type of person that likes to make something my "own", therefore I did a little modification on my first batch. - added "Mr. Booster"...

Sounds good... I believe I will have one... It is the afternoon any way