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Your obvious problem is that you are using vile yeast. The kind I use usually comes in a V-I-A-L. Puns aside, sourness is a trait of lacto-bacillus infection. Lacto is on all grains. You can make things sour by doing a mash, and just let it sit warm for 2-3 days. Or maybe if your yeast was...

Beer at that point has abbout one volume of carbonation. So most of the bubbles are CO2. Then, set the cap on as you fill, but don't crimp it yet. Go ahead and fill severasl bottles, setting the caps on each as you go. The co2 out of the beer will push the air out. Then seat the caps, in...

The number <7> does not mean POISON DO NOT USE. It means "There is no demand to recycle this container". Except as a fermenter.

Here's a link to another thread: <https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=25287> It seems : Water bottles ARE "food grade". So far as O2 transmission, anything is better than the ubiquitous plastic bucket. But nobody complains about bad batch from the buckets. NOBODY has ever brewed a...

You guy know that those 'banjo burners' were originaly made for water heaters? When I started on the cheap, I used a burner from a wall heater. It would have worked better if it was for propane, it was for natural gas. So it was a bit smokey. Until I found a turkey fryer without the pot, but...

Koko and Jean, you are talking about fresh wort, right? Not after it's been fermenting, and lowering it's gravity? Some handy terms: OG= "Original gravity", wort before yeast added. SG= "specific gravity" , a generic term, timing excluded. So timing should be mentioned, like "SG after...

Donkey, did you get that the heat is from the yeast working? The yeasts are "burning sugar" to make CO2, just like you do when running to the keg. Alcohol is yeast 'fat', from feeding healthy yeast.

Get a frictionless themometer. How thermonmeters work: heat makes stuff expand. Mercury (silver colored) and alcohol (red, blue) thermometers are direct reading, as the fluid expands, it gets bigger in the tube. You read it. Dial thermometers use the same expansion to push a piston up the...

Here's a link to the most recipes I've found on one site: <http://oz.craftbrewer.org/Recipes/> scroll to section 14. I don't know if he malts his own, or if there is better availability in Oz.

The enzyme is called 'Glutenase' er something, from the health food store. Helps for stuff like gravy, with a little bit of gluten in it. I picked up a sixer of Red Bridge gf beer from AB. Not too bad. But at $8/6 compared to 35 cents for a homebrew.... Apparently, Briess makes Sorghum...

The temp thing I read about. I figured cool the wrt, do another 'protein rest'. That would let the natural enzymes do their maximum break down of the gluten. Then let a small amount of DPP_IV work. The pH makes it beyond use. Hm, does that mean that it has to work in the stomach before acid...

What do you use to haul beer around now? I just mash in my old no-name cooler, it says 34 on it. 34 quarts, I guess. No tap at all. I ladel the mash into my bottling bucket to sparge. I was doing AG for $50 total, swap meets and garage sales.

The actuall senser is usually out at the far end, so no, don't cut nothin. Can you coil your chiller tighter?

What my boot-legging grandmother used for her home made "whiskey" was a burnt sugar cube. Put the sugar cube in a spoon. Rub a bit of cigarette ashes on it, otherwise it won't light. It will leave behind a pool of "carmel coloring". No need for any charred barrels in Gramma's distillery. Don't...

Bump. Anybody try this grand experiment this weekend, or did Easter resurect other duties?

Can you spring for a grain bag? A 5 gallon paint strainer from the paint store? Use it like a big tea bag, and 'batch sparge'- First. drain the bag into the brew pot, then use another pot with the heated sparge water in it, and dip the 'tea bag' into it. soak and agitate for 10 minutes, and...

I'm sure I'll get corrected, but isn't that exactly what "Steam Beer" is? Of course, S.F. never hits 75...

B W, What do you think? Try to do a blind taste test. Where your buddy doesn't know which glass is from which keg. Got any extra kegs? Make two batchs of soda water for a blind taste test... Then tell him about how welders can't have any impurities in them. Not just for taste, but for...

I would use the same method I use to tell if she's real, or wearing falsies. If it tastes like rubber...

Are you guys cooling the hydrometer sample before testing SG? You might take a method form the AGers, and mash in a cooler. I think a picnic jug would work for small amounts, or a small cooler. Probaly with a grain bag (5 gallon paint strainer), then just lift the bag out and let it drain. Pour...