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As the title says, has anyone fermented in the plastic Big Mouth Bubbler carboys? What are your thoughts? The following is from the bigmouthbubbler.com site: "The construction of The Bubbler® plastic carboy incorporates the highest quality plastic with purposeful design and the utmost...

I like IPAs and Saisons. For this next beer I decided to brew a hoppy pale ale, about 68 IBUs. Then, for a twist, I ordered the Belgian Ardennes yeast. I use reverse osmosis, then build my water chemistry back up. Do I use a Belgian beer profile or a Burton (Pale Ale/IPA) profile? Or something...

I guess 2 lbs of Dark Munich (15L) would do it (instead of the Vienna).

Thanks for the responses/suggestions guys! The darkest Dark Munich I see (on Northern Brewer) is 15L. Special B might be good, but I don't want to have to buy a pound just for a couple ounces. I have some chocolate malt sitting around. The D-90 candy syrup is an interesting option. I...

The style guidelines allow for some orange color in a Saison. I like the look of it. The thing is, I don't want to have to add 4 lbs of Munich malt (10 L) to get there. I'm considering adding 2 ounces of Chocolate Malt to my somewhat typical grain bill for a Saison (Pilsen, 1 lb Wheat Malt...

That sounds like an excellent process! Thanks so much. I'm going to use that.

I bought a keg this last spring and I have been using that. But I also want to have a six pack bottled so that I can send the beer to competitions. What is a good method for doing this? Sure, a Blickmann Beer Gun would be great, but I would rather not spend that much at the moment. Do I...

Thanks all! As Onlooker mentioned, this time of year, I should make a starter when getting liquid yeast through the mail. I think that is the lesson here. Buying 2 vials is fine, but better during cooler months. I think it will be alright. I'll know better in a week or so when I check the...

Usually I buy 1 vial of yeast and make a starter. Jamil's book says use 2 vials or make appropriate starter. So I thought, well, to save time, I'll just buy 2 vials. This time I made a Belgian Pale Ale. I bought 2 vials of White Labs' WLP500 Belgian Ale Yeast. I pitched around 65 degrees...

That is so smart mZnthebend. I'll try that. Thanks all for this thread! I just ran into this issue. Wish me luck.

This isn't my original inspiration for cold crashing and dry hopping, but I was just listening to the Can You Brew It podcast on the Brewing Network. It is the Kern River Citra IPA cloning episode (4-23-12). At around 3 minutes from the end Tasty says that he "dropped the yeast" which I assume...

wilserbrewer: I think I may end up using sanitized foil next. Maybe even a rubber band due to the sucking in and the air blowing in my incubator. threeporks: My concern with airlocks is the sucking in. Many have mentioned that the sanitized water or vodka gets sucked down. If all of it were...

That's a fair response. I might change the order of operations next time. I think I read somewhere about someone else doing it in that order. I read a lot of beer books, magazines, and websites so I don't recall. May have heard it on a podcast. Somehow that got stuck in my head and became my...

I may have just learned a hard lesson in cold crashing beer... I had a blowoff tube going into a bucket of sanitized water. During the initial fermentation, some of the yeast blow off did go down the tube and discolor the tube and water in the bucket some. I just left everything as is, so as...

This has been an interesting thread but we need closure. Please respond OP.