Recent content by soggydog

Thx for the help guys. I'll siphon under this stuff for now. I'll replace tubing and I guess auto-siphon too. Thinking replacing my cleanign brush would be good too. I'll just triple my cleanign efforts all together. I'll let you know what happens.

I will be doing another thorough cleaning of all the involved parts.....should i being using somethign besides One Step or Star San?

dave, what are you sanitizing with?

K Bike to clarify, i should not use star san to clean the carboy/fermenter.....what should i use? oxiclean? .... the star san suggestion came from the local HB store guy....not saying i put much stock in his help...he didn't seem sure. To reiterate, I don't think its star san bubbles as i was...

Not star san bubbles since this is the first time i used it and this has been happening for a few batches thus far. This is the 4-5 time it has happened so beer type not an issue i'm thinking. Its a kiwi golden though if you're interested. its not cracked or anything, yes boiling water will...

I have made lots of batches in the same gear over the last few years. They've all been fine til this spring, then this started showing up. About 4-5 batches ago i started seeing this in the secondary. I was cleanign the fermenters with one step for the whole time up til this batch. The...

I put it up last week and its pretty empty so far, but I hope to add as my brews get boiled and bottled and so forth. I'm still changing the design but i hope to have more stuff on it in the next few weeks. Find it here. :D Also if anyone would like help starting one I can prolly set one...

I've been playing with labels for my brews. The hardest part so far seems to be finding the right size labels in sheet form to buy. Did a bunch of looking online today for oval and possibly custom shaped labels but found squat. I have my first label, which I'm always playing with and...