Recent content by suzuki98

how do you check the ph of star san?

thanks for the replies

I"m getting ready to brew smashing pumpkin extract from northern brewer. After I watched the video I need 2lbs of six row malt. The original recipe did not have pumpkin added to it. They gave me briess caramel 40 grains only. Well I want to add real pumpkin. I'm going to go off the cuff...

Ok a question for you. I have about 12 more beers that were in the basement for about a year and has not been refrigerated. They are filled up to the neck. If I refrigerate them could they still"explode" upon opening?

I'm not for sure what over carbonate actually means but I filled a bottle half full. I forgot I had about 12 bottles in my basement that sat close to a year, never refrigerated. I needed the bottles to bottle a new batch so I opened the half full bottle to see how it should taste. Well I never...

Thanks for all the great replies. Yes I am using Nottingham yeast and making an Irish red. Where I have the carboy it's a little chilly so I wrapped the carboy with a fermentation heater wrap.

after the wort boiled, I put the pot in a ice bath. After 10 min or so i put the sanitized tip of my digital thermometer in the wort to check temp. While doing this I dropped the unsanitized part of thermometer that had the digital reading into the wort. I quickly pulled it out and continued...

it had a purplish tint. how does oxidation happen?

- Sorry no picture (thought about it afterwards) I dumped it in the sink to look at it -recipe ---> http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/Kolsch.pdf with Wyeast -the brew is only 2 1/2 months old from start. It's been about 2 weeks since end of conditioning -I use star san

Hello all, I finished my 3rd brew (extract). It was a Kolsch recipe. So far this one came out the best until I opened one today. The color had been a beautiful golden, nice head, etc. The one I opened today was darker and looked almost purple. Anybody have any idea why it would of came out...

I'm not doing all you asked (flars) and I've never seen this before

This is my second brew. The first one went great and tasted the same. This time I brewed an Irish Red. I've been drinking them for about 2 weeks now and noticed a white clump almost looks like wax floating towards the bottom. They seem to get that way in the refrgerator because the ones that...

thx for all the imput. The yeast is active and airlock is even working :)

ok...............thx

it's been 48 hrs since I pitched the yeast. there is a 1/4" krausen ring in carboy.