Recent content by scottab

Do you have more stuff you are selling?

not sure if i chimed in or not, but please count me in.

So to update I am pretty positive that my bottle bucket which doubles as my primary is my infection culprit. Brewed a red ale I had for about 2 months just waiting its turn about 2 weeks ago and it developed the smell I've associated with the infection last week and when I looked it seems to...

Nope perfectly normal

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the bb is only 5 gallon so i'd lose a bit of beer if i was to ferment in it... if i got a 6.5 gallon then i'd probably use that... the bottle bucket quickly became my primary since i blew out my very first batch and lost about a half gallon in the processes.

I've been using my bottle bucket as my primary for the last 18 batches and have racked to my better bottle than back to the bottle bucket a couple of weeks later to prime then bottle... well now my better bottle has infected my last 2 batches and i'm wondering what everyone else uses. Mind you...

I don't have an auto-syphon since i've been using a bottle bucket as my primary... i don't think i have any scratches inside the carboy but then again microscopic scratches are by default difficult to see. Sent from my Xoom using Home Brew mobile app

See that is a lot more helpful than Giving a reason why and an explanation of what is going on is much more helpful. if it is lactobacillus and i let it form a good pellicle would racking from under save me possibly? Also if i soak in oxyclean then rinse with starsan would i be able to use...

I didn't take as chastisement just that a lot of times i've seen on this board statements like that which are not helpful like the good old how do i make bottling go quicker: buy a keg... I've also seen a number of opinions on using the secondary vs not and i know that each time we rack we...

thanks for the comments but comments like this are not helpful or constructive, and shouldn't in my opinion be stated when someone is asking for help. besides my primary which also doubles as my bottle bucket which is why i rack to a 2ndary if i rack under it do you think it will still be...

In my last brew which was a brewers best milk stout i noticed in the secondary this white film start forming on the beer surface. It got knocked back down when i went to bottle. After a few weeks in the bottle the beer developed the band aid smell/taste that is associated with chlorophynols...

Just curious how there would be that much material floating in secondary? I've def seen yeast rafts and such but that much? It def lookslike rafts or protein but seem excessive in secondary.

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So on friday night i took a sample reading of my milk stout and it was in the finish range. This past week temps have been steady in the high 70's to low 80's so my basement temp rose and so did my brew. I's risen about 5-6 degrees and is now at 76, maybe a little higher. Could this cause it...