Recent content by Scott Shenanigan

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Well that’s not good then. During fermentation everything seemed to go well and as normal. I had plenty of bubbles through my blow off tube during active fermentation. When I squeezed the sides of my BMB fermenter to ensure a sealed lid, it pushed bubbles out of the blow off tube. I wonder if...

Cold crash question: I’ve always cold crashed using my Big Mouth Bubbler plastic fermenter that has a spigot near the bottom. After fermentation is complete, I just replace my drilled bung and blow off tube for a solid bung. I then keep the fermenter in my kegerator for roughly 36 hours at...

I purchased the extract kit from Adventures in Homebrewing. Per that recipe there was only 1oz of centennial hops for dry hopping. The hop filter is a 300 micron stainless steel cylinder about 8 inches long with a screw lid and chain.

Thank you for all of your help! So at this point, which of the three options that I listed in my original post would you think is best?

I’m learning something new all the time. I was under the assumption that if I fill the keg that has dry hops in it with CO2 and then pull the pressure release valve numerous times to purge the oxygen out, all of the oxygen would be removed from the keg. Thus leaving a CO2 only environment with...

I added the dry hops to my keg because I was trying to prevent any O2 from touching my beer. Once the hops were in my keg, I purged the keg with CO2 and then performed a closed transfer from my fermenter to the dry hopped keg. If I just added the hops to my fermenter then I would have to expose...

So I completed my first closed transfer last Sunday from my primary fermenter to my keg leaving the trub behind. Fermentation was complete after two weeks and I hit my FG of 1.006 for three days straight. It is a Bell’s 2 Hearted Clone Extract. Before doing the closed transfer to my keg, I...