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It's from a university. They could have been mixing Ebola and cyanide in it. Also it is a small neck...

Wide open tops? Are we talking fermenters or cars? Or something else...;) Not sure it was meant for anything dangerous, without threads or a serious lip. But who knows what it started out as, I was given a 5 liter erlenmeyer flask that was bought from U of M. I won't use it because I don't...

A wye system can have a neutral, a delta does not. It all depends if you run the neutral wire. You can just ground the center for a balanced delta, but calling it a wye implies a neutral. Run the numbers, if you have to increase all the wire sizes and switchgear to pull the wattage on two...

Tannins wouldn't hurt. I age apple cider for 6 months to a year. Apple usually needs to be aged to get the flavor back..

Did you boil the sugar? That helps dissolve it as well as sanitize it. If it is not fully dissolved it will sink to the bottom. Another possibility is some just have not fermented the sugar out yet. Not all the bottles will react at the same rate. Make sure they are at a suitable temperature...

Yeah, sorry. I was going through new threads and forgot i clicked off onto one at the bottom of the page. My bad.

Sounds like a good upgrade to me.

I don't use broth, I put in thinly sliced beef. Keep the horseradish, maybe a slice of tomato, put the beer off to the side, regular salt, lose the vodka and add two slices of bread. I call it a sandwich and a beer.

I hope you are kidding. One, acid lowers pH, not raises it. Two, I just read it is poisonous. Three, it is called muriatic acid and is available at most hardware stores.

0.0 Is there a lager outside of home and micro brewing? lager means 'to store', not filter and ship. How many of the macro brews are guilty of that? Or is that too big of a lie for this forum....

Depends on what you are comparing to, and what aspect you are looking at. Being maltier than Coors Light is not a high bar to jump... edit: commented too soon... yes, BMC is amazing at producing millions of gallons of perfectly consistent beer. And you can't argue with their success, a lot...

As long as you don't store hot and kill it, it is fine. I just pitched a 2018 M03 packet and it went off to a roaring start. I buy extra and store in the fridge, The M03 I got at expiration, I liked the yeast and they discontinued it. But I am still making ambers with M03 3 years later.

I believe the favorites currently are Go ferm and Fermaid-O. These are applied in staggered additions. there is a website dedicated to the timing and amounts, but I am blanking on the name right now. Can anybody give him the website name?

Sounds like the takeaway even from this group is moderation. Don't hand a 4 year old a beer, but don't sweat trace alcohols in a pizza. If you are doing homemade crust, you are doing it right. Try a nice slice of homemade buttered bread with a bowl of homemade vegetable soup, one of my...

Alcohol is a lot of places, handy for keeping oils flowing. Like medicines and foodstuffs. Take extract flavorings, I have a regular bottle of vanilla extract that says it is 35% alcohol, that is 70 proof. I probably should not have posted that though, now the booze hounds are raiding the...

You might want to find a cooler spot. Fermentation slows in lower temps. I don't use blowoffs normally, but I ferment on the lower end of the yeasts temp range.

I just repitched into a cheap experiment batch (another thread...). The yeast had sat under the beer, refrigerated for at least 4 or 5 months. It fired up in less than a day and is banging away now. I think that was US-05. With 5.3 abv at one month, I would say pitch a little more slurry if...

Some people punch them out, I am not that brave. I use a dental pick and pop the legs off of the ledge one by one. after a while you get the hang of it, get a good pick though. Once they are out, you twist the legs to line the little nub up with the slot and they slide apart, You can get a...

OK, now I remember that one. The term crown triggered a memory, I had one, but it was cracking, I replaced with a newer o ring style, You are right, since mine was cracked I kept trying and destroyed it, they are not replaceable as an o ring.

If they are the something like these they are serviceable, just a little more difficult. to pull out of the post.