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I bought some Brewer' Best carb drops from my LHBS this week. It says 3 drops for low carbonation, 4 drops for medium carbonation, and 5 drops for high carbonation. I'm trying a test run before proceeding with the whole batch. To three bottles I added 1 drop each, and to three bottles I added...

@Aleforge : I don't have experience growing hops in Missouri, but considering no one has provided a helpful answer in the past month, I'll say this anyway: I'm also looking to start growing hops (in NJ) and am trying to decide on varieties. One thing I've found helpful is looking at other hop...

I know, old post, but Ive been thinking about this same issue all week. I normally use priming sugar dissolved in water and boiled, but a recent batch of RIS resulted in undercarbonated bottles, and I'm planning to re-open the bottles and add a small carb drop to each. I'll try just a few first...

The ABV of the beer is 9.3%. Is that high enough to limit the yeast? They've been stored in my basement which hovers around 70 F during the summer, so I think it has been warm enough. I've had ten of the bottles now over the course of the last few months, and they've all had about the same...

I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout following a clone recipe for Old Rasputin. I bottle conditioned them. Yeast was two packets of US-05. This was my first time measuring priming sugar specifically to carbonate "to style", and I targeted 2.3 volumes, which is lower than I usually target. For...

This is what I did for my keggle. Would recommend.

I'm also wondering this. I have a RIS that is significantly undercarbonated (though it did carbonate some). Bottling occurred about 7 months ago. I'm trying to decide whether to open them all and add a carb drop, or perhaps to dump them all into a keg and force carbonate. Anyone have any...

That's helpful, thank you. Looks like I have rear sealing. I'll add forward sealing faucets to my shopping list. Now I remember why it took me so long to switch to kegging ($!). @Bobby_M - I'll be coming in to your shop in the next week or two to get all the parts for this build (kegs, CO2...

@wsmith1625 - You mentioned above that it "looks" like a rear sealing faucet. How can you tell the difference? I just bought a kegerator for the first time yesterday, and it came with two faucets, but I'm not sure how to tell whether they are forward sealing or rear sealing. Thank you.

I second Sammy86 on the sediment: proteins from the cold break. Don't worry about them. Try to leave most of the sediment behind when transferring to fermenter, but no need for any filters. More will drop out in the fermenter over time. When bottling from fermenter, again try to leave most of...

Where in NJ would be the pickup?

I've been bottling exclusively for a decade. Admittedly, one reason is the cost (I simply don't have $300 to put down on the setup). But I appreciate being able to have a wider variety of styles on hand, age some of the stronger brews for a couple years, and give some away to friends/family...

Don't worry about males in the area. Seeded hops are still good for brewing. A number of references could be provided, but see below study as an example. (Thanks to a post from @Northern_Brewer from several years ago.) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1978.tb03887.x

A tip I learned last week: I had been avoiding Canva recently because the free version did not let me download the design with a transparent background. (The colored background did not play nice with my Kraft brown labels.) I ended up downloading the design with a white background, uploaded into...

I started with a free trial of Canva (browser-based), and then moved to GIMP (downloadable program) for editing. Canva was simple and had images available to pull from, but I couldn't justify the cost after the free trial ended. GIMP is incredibly powerful if you know what you're doing...

@hezagenius -- How about some updated photos showing your brewing setup?

I'm generally not too concerned about it. I wash them with soap and water, and occasionally dip them in star san if I think about it, which is not frequently. I haven't had any issues yet...

Thanks all. I'll try bottling this week, and just hope the oxygen ingress doesn't come out as too noticable in the end product.

I had a rye saison fermenting with Mangrove Jack's M29 french saison strain. The recommended fermentation temperature for the yeast is 79F-90F. I had it in a fermentation chamber of sorts (that is, a water bath kept warm by sous vide) starting at 80F and ramping up to 86.5F over the next few...

Congrats on the new house! Don't worry about it. Practice common-sense hygiene and it will be fine. I moved into a house two years ago, and while my basement floor isn't technically dirt, the walls leak and flake off, there are lots of creepy crawlies, and it is generally dirty looking. Not...