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That's exactly my question. Search for "bleach" and you'll see that most people do not use it. There was even a poll sometime ago. Only a few percent go with bleach. There are two major anti-bleach arguments: it stains clothes, and it has to be rinsed with tap water which may be contaminated...

What was wrong with the bleach? Do you mean you could smell/taste it in the beer? Or it didn't sanitize well? I am using bleach and have no complaints about it, although many people around keep saying that it's a big no-no. Am I missing something?

You can fill it with cold water, add a few ounces of bleach, soak overnight, then rinse and that's it.

I would recommend a 6.5 gallon carboy. It is not much more expensive, and when not dropped on the floor can be passed to the following generations :-) The AHS brown ale (Newcastle clone) was my previous brew, and I made it exactly 5.25 per instructions. That leaves plenty of room for the...

Yes, you are right. I just wanted to make sure that my beer doesn't fall into that thousandth of a percent :mug:

Yesterday I shared my concerns about a 1 day old fermenting beer which had a krausen partially covered with a thick layer of dark brown scum. It looked like this. Today it looks completely different: all that brown crap is gone, and only minor pieces are stuck to the glass. It is hard to believe...

Yes, it's just a band to hold two sensors (thermostat and thermometer). I keep it at about 66-67F.

I know, I know, it looks wrong - but hey, that was the only thing that I could find around at that time :-) I need to get a wider elastic band at some crafts store.

Thank you! The strange thing is that last time the color was much lighter. I start thinking - could it be that this time the guy in the store sold to me dark LME instead of amber? Or the other way around, when I asked for some amber extract the first time, I was given a can of an extra pale? All...

Well, I cannot say how it tastes, as it is too early to try (only 36 hours so far), but it smells good. And steadily bubbles every second.

I used a Dremel with a small round diamond bit, just wrote the digits as I would have done with a pen. As you can see, I also added the date and place when I bought this carboy. Who knows - maybe it will become a piece of history some day :-)

I know I am not the first one to ask about the krausen - is it good and normal or not. What I see now in my carboy is quite different from what I had a few months ago with EXACTLY the same ingredients and technique. Absolutely no change in anything, but instead of a uniform nearly white color...

I second that - respect for doing it late. I tried to bottle in the evening once, and after having capped some twenty or so bottles, I realized that I forgot to add priming sugar. Had to open those bottles, pour back in the bucket, add sugar... it was a long evening. Strangely enough, the beer...

Thanks for advice! I've just finished brewing, but next time I'll play with this. What do you mean by "flameout" - when is it?

Not really. You just need a bowl, a bucket, or something big enough. The extract I buy comes in small plastic jars (7 lbs max), so I just dump half of my extract into an old jar from the previous brewing, and top both jars with water. It takes only a few minutes to make it super thin, and there...

Is there any difference between dumping 7 lbs of liquid extract to the pot with 2 gallons of hot water (started to boil, then was removed from the range), and first adding some cool water to the extract to make it thinner, and then adding this thinned extract to the hot water? I tried both ways...

I use bleach, and I rinse with distilled water. I gallon at 99 cents is enough for me to rinse everything on a brew day. My experience is very limited, only 5 batches, but I am glad so far.

You can be sure (there is absolutely no doubt) that it has a really unique taste already, and with time this taste will be getting more and more unique!

I might think about starting a business :mug:

Have you tried other bottles? Maybe you just opened a bad one? I have occasionally one or two bottles out of 48-50 without any carbonation at all, while the rest are all OK. Could be a bad cap, a bad bottle, or just me who did a bad capping job...