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Although your thinking does sound correct, why not just sanitize the lid with StarSan, so you can remove that from the picture.

not sure if i should just ask this in a new thread, but... one problem that i know i had with this beer is that for some reason the yeast didnt attenuate as much as they should have, It went down to around to 1.020, where it should have gone down to about 1.012. Since then i've been using O2 to...

Congrats to all of you who advanced. Hopefully one day my beers will get scores into or close to the 40's. That is quite an achievement in my eyes.

Good idea, I'm going to to drink one while reading the score sheet.

got my results back from Pittsburgh today.

Thanks for all the input guys. the other judge gave me a 25, and said it lacked carbonation.... REALLY? Just incase anyone wanted to know, this is from Pittsburgh.

Did better this year (second time) with my ESB, my high score of 21 last year is a 32 this year. I havent gotten to read it yet, I had my wife tell me some stuff over the phone, but one thing that i got from both judges is that it "lacked complexity" I basically brewed the ESB from Brewing...

Another reason to add to my list of reasons to get one!

+1, another great place to go. Cant wait to get back there.

As helibrewer said, rehydrate your yeast. If you don't, at least half of them will die. yeah, you could compensate and pitch double, but from what I heard that is not optimal. Rehydrating is easy, and you know your yeast will start out healthy and make you great beer, so why shoot yourself in...

In probably going to misspell it but gordon biersh. They have great food there and some tasty beers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the most you can get into a beer is around 100 ibu. So if you do a partial boil you can only get around 50.

I have a single and a dual stage love controller and they work great... I do recommend the dual stage. I put it in a radio shack project box with an outlet.

As long as your fermentation temps were good, that will age out. Hope you can get the gravity down a bit. How long has it been fermenting?

the one i made required no soldering, basically its just one of those project boxes from Radioshack. you make a hole for the love controller, and one for an outlet. cut the end off an extention cord, and wire that to the controller, and the outlet, and wire the controller to the outlet. i had...

using that calculator, the 5 gallon pot is the perfect size. Now i think i'm going to have to make one of those dowels that i can put in the pot so i can top off to the correct amount of wort preboil. Thanks for your help.

For my keezer i have one of the analog controllers and it works fine. Although, i also have 2 love controllers, one single stage, and one dual stage. Personally, unless your short on cash, i would pick up the dual stage love controller with a temp probe. There is a wiring guide on here for it...

I've been doing 5-10 gallon all grain batches, in a few weeks i'm going to be doing 2 2.5 gallon all grain batches. Its been a while since i've done partial mashes. I have a 5 gallon pot, going to be using about 6lbs of grain, and about 7 quarts of water in the mash, first... is there a...

The two most important things you can do for your beer is sanitation and temperature control. That being said..... Fridge with temperature control. hands down. you can make great beers with partial boils, you cant make good beer with poor fermentation temperature control.

Think i'm going to go with my setup and use 5lb of DME. Hmm, now i see there is a shortage of Amarillo hops.... should i just use more Chinook to substitute?