Recent content by thedudety

I will, I will, thanks for the reassurance. I am a patient man, but damn I want some homebrew.

Great stuff Revvy. But here I come with more questions. When I first pitched my yeast, and the first 10 hours of fermentation, I believe the wort was a little warm. Probably around 80, silly me, I never used a thermometer. I say that because when I woke the morning after I had let it sit to in...

Yes, that was a very good idea as well. I will definitely be doing that. Now all I have to decide is wether or not to get a vinator. My dishwasher is rather new and does have a sanitize setting. And if I do do that, should I then still use the isopro sanitizing stuff?

Oh, I see the logic now. With the bent tube that is. At first I was thinking that would get sediment in the beer, but of course, the sediment was already left behind in the fermenter after transferring the beer to the bottling bucket. Very clever idea the bent tube is.

Thanks guys, that was quick. Revvy, I read your other thread all about bottling and it certainly will save me the pain of spilling beer because I was gonna do the floor thing like Charlie does in his book. But that bent tube on the inside of the buckett, attached to the spigot is a little...

I started my first batch of homebrew one week ago using a recipe kit called Longhorn brown ale. Anyways, bottling is on the horizon and it seems a rather daunting task to sanitize 48 bottles all at once and keep them sanitized until I am done bottling. Any tips?