Recent content by Vismich

Thanks. We drank from the kegs after the co2 was gone, so I probably drained the air out myself... But will check!

I force carbonate and had two kegs hooked up to a CO2 canister. My CO2 ran out, and looks like my beer may have gone flat. Can I recarbobate the kegs or are they shot??

I made a great pumpkin beer and bottled it. Unfortunately a lot of the pumpkin pieces are still floating in the beer. At home, I strain it into a glass. Heading to a party today, and was going to bring the beer. Instead of having the guests chew the beer, I was thinking of opening a bunch of...

Yea, I'm about 40 mins into the boil and its dissolved except done stringy pieces. Going to just keep it in. Thanks!!

Doing a pumpkin beer with fresh pumpkin. The recipe I have says to throw the baked pumpkin chunks into the boil, which is happening now... My question is... Do I ferment with the pumpkin chunks in the Wort??

How do you make a starter?

Still good if it sat our all night?

Hi All! I have a package of Wyeast that may or may not have frozen in my fridge. I came back from vacation, and a bunch of stuff in my fridge was frozen, due to the cold (Garage fridge). I was going to brew last nigh, smacked the pack, then decided it might be safe to just drive and get...

Im moving, and I need to unplug my fridge where i keep my keg for a few days to defrost it. Will the beer spoil by going from cold to warm then cold again a week from now?

So you think I should be good? Worst case I suppose it will just be thick beer?

Yea. I've been doing this for about a year, so im pretty familiar with the process. I took the gravity after the water was put in. Most of my IPAs start at 1.06, so I wasn't terribly floored by 1.09. That said, will that be a problem? Will it be drinkable? What is beersmith?

Yes, I boiled about 2.5 gl Filled primary to 5 gallons. Fermenting now

Last night I brewed a batch that was an experiment recipe I just made up using dry extract. I started with about 10 qts of water and added 4lbs of wheat malt extract at the boil. At 20 mins left in the boil, I added another 3lbs of dry malt. The wort became very thick, and looked like lava. I...

So I started kegging a few months ago, and haven't looked at a bottle since. I decided to bottle a raspberry wheat beer tonight, and brought out some bottles from the basement. I must not have cleaned them well because they are moldy, really moldy.... I soaked them in c-brute and scrubbed them...

I received a Cooper's Stout brew can as a gift for Xmas, and the people also have me a bag of Dried Malt Extract. Usually when I buy DME it is in a vaccum sealed bag. This was not. Instead, it was in a zip lock bag. Like I said, I received this about three months ago. Do you think the DME is...