Recent content by ScrmnWoody

I have the Homebrewing for Dummies book. It helped me understand some real basics. I think it's useful. But, I've never read the "How to Brew".

Just found the site, this afternoon while I was moving some wort from 1st to 2nd. I hope to learn a lot by reading through and interacting with you all. I've been brewing for about 7 or 8 years and I've had pretty good luck with the extract brewing so far, but still haven't made the switch to...

Glass is probably better. But, I've never experienced any "off" flavors with wort fermenting in plastic less than a few weeks. Price Payed: $10.00 Recommended? Yes

Glass is probably better. But, I've never experienced any "off" flavors with wort fermenting in plastic less than a few weeks. Price Payed: $10.00 Recommended? Yes

I keg now. But, I remember a batch that I primed for bottling just before I switched to kegging. I think I failed to stir the priming sugar really really well in the bottling bucket. Half of my bottles carbonated well. The other half were quite flat. The beer all came from the same batch. So...

No worries. I've had Wyeast packs not expand that much and wondered the same thing. Beers have always turned out.