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I am a brewer from Clayton. I'm pretty happy I found this thread.

100+ is not conducive to brewing but it is conducive to drinking a very, very cold beer. Luckily I still have some raspberry wheat I previously brewed for my wife left over. Zacster, although I feel your pain, it comforts me to know that I'm not alone. Thanks to all!

thanks for the sympathy. so in the future, i should be ok leaving it at 10 psi as long as the liquid out adapter is not hooked in, unless i'm drinking the beer.

It is a ball lock keg. I did have the liquid out connected. When I found it the tubing had come off the the barb connector. All other connections were anally checked before kegging. It was a picnic tap and I did bleed it before i adjusted the psi from 30 to 10.

Problem of the day; I recently kegged on June 30th for the first time. I checked on it this morning and the floor behind my bar was sticky and not a drop was left of the 4 gallons that was in my keg. Let me give you a run down of the situation and if there are any tips you guys can give me I...

I recently kegged my first batch of beer. I let it carbonate warm. Should I have chilled it before I carbonated it or does it matter?

After cleaning my siphon tubing and letting it dry, it had a lot of stuff on the inside wall. I figured I would boil the tube because I've used it quite a bit. After the boil the tubing was no longer clear, it was white (you can't see through it any more). Should I be worried? Can I still...

I'm a little bummed my HBS didn't have amarillo. I went with 2 row & palisades. 1st all grain batch was fun. I got some great ideas from you guys for future endeavors as well. Thanks!

Fish food is exactly what I thought yesterday. Glad to hear this is normal.

If I killed some of them off, will I get an adequate fermentation?

Update... I got a little action. Just started bubbling. I tend to panic too early. Thanks!

Yesterday I brewed my 1st all grain batch. 2 row / palisade SMaSH. During the boil I had a lot of white-ish particles rolling around. It started to form a film on the surface. I'm assuming this was protein but I'm not sure. Any insight? Please tell me this is normal.

don't know if anyone is interested but... everything turned out great. It took a few more weeks to fully carbonate. I will def. make this beer again. thanks for the piece of mind everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I brewed a SMaSH beer yesterday and 24 hours later there is no action in my air lock. I got impatient waiting for my wort to chill and I think I pitched the yeast too soon. The temp. was about 100*. Should I worry? Should I continue to wait or re-pitch? I've been holding off on a wort...

Thanks for all the good info. I will use that dish washer bottle sterilizing thing. So basically..., MT, HLT, kettle & all tubing involved should be reasonably cleaned. Fermenter, secondary, bung, air lock, siphon, bottles, bottling bucket, keg should be cleaned thoroughly & sanitized. 1st...

Thanks guys! Another reason I like this sight is the quick response time. So, pretty much, clean everything with b-brite? (minus pot & caps) Spray/rinse everything with star san? Star san bottles? I'm curious about the bottles breaking in the dishwasher as well. Cleaning bottles takes so...

Hello all! I'm in need of a little advice. I've done some research on this topic but I value the opinions of the folks here than any where else. I am preparing to make the transition from extract brewing to all grain. I feel that I am going way over board with my cleaning/sanitation & it's...

Thanks for the insight! I feel better.

Good evening all! Yesterday I put a wheat beer in to the secondary. I inadvertently put ~3 oz of raspberry flavoring extract in. I intended to do this at bottling. In a rush I screwed up. Question is... will this compromise the final product?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I think I'll start off with 2 row & amarillo. 2 row seems to be a pretty common base malt. Next one I'll play with is Marris Otter.