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It's all brewing and personal preferance. I AG because I like to spend all day brewing. But the award winnig beers at Comps. tend to be Extract I don't compete I make beer for family and friends. Cheers

:confused: Is that what the instructions said to do? Man that's more like winemaking than brewing beer. Try again with a better kit I'm sure you can get better results.

I don't understand. Time for research.

Your a brave man to brew from the Potomac:cross:

I personally like stout fresh (one week in kegg forcecarb) I have let it age in the past and it seemed to lose something.

Wine makers use the stuff to kill yeast I belive to stop fermentation at a certaine point so be carefull.

Stupid questions. was it hopped extract? Did you boil it or litterally just dump everything in the fermentor?

I think anything with activated charcoal would be a step in the right direction also do a seach in the equipment section on water filtering, tons of good ideas in that section on everything.

Again I say to the car wash after you have them apart of course and don't forget to replace the gaskets with new ones and get some kegg lube.

If the rag on the brush and Pumbaa's vinager doesn't get it out buy a new carboy. :mug:

Just a guess. You ma have given the yeast a bit of a stir and some extra oxygen that got them reactivated. I think I remember reading that adding oxygen after the initial fermentation was not necasseraily a good thing as yeast are aerobic and anaerobic. Sorry I can't help with the dry hop question.

I think trying to culture and grow enough yeast to pitch might take longer than you want to wait.

Since you already put all the work in to it and your looking at five days for delivery I would pitch one of the others you have on hand after making a big starter. $.02

You might save money in the long run if you buy a nice water filtering system.

Do you mean pressure barrel as in force carb or is this a completly diffrent piece of equipment?

Have you tried wrapping a rag aroung your carboy brush? You might also try going to the carwash and useing one of the high powered hoses unless you have a pressure washer at home. Yes I have done this I had a yeast cake that dried to the bottom of my carboy because I got called away to an emergency.

X2. canned stuff last forever.

I would give it another day if you can stand the wait.

I still want to try the dry ice method in corny kegs but I'm a bit scared of that much pressure. I'll get the gear together for it one day and a report will follow.

I'm a heathen I just have a spiral note book of past brews. On the upside I have been able to duplicate one beer three times with consistency I'm pretty happy with.