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After redoing everything, it now works. I think. Rheostat/potent no longer gets hot. I think there was a bare wire touching somewhere it shouldn't have. However, now when i plug it in, the fan starts slow, then speeds up on the turn. When it was getting hot, the fan would stay stationary...

Hmm...I thought I had wiring backwards. I changed it up, just to make sure. charger has black and black/white stripe. Fan has red and black. Did red to black/white and black to black. fan worked. Thought this was causing the overheating, so I changed it up. red to black and black to...

The fan says .13A

Even with the errors, I brewed one great beer! Racked to keg on Monday and tried it today. Still has room to age, but is delicious. Tastes so much better and has a different consistency than all extract recipe. Probably won't be going back to extracts for a while. I would have checked my...

OOPS. Don't sure if makes a difference, but it is actually a 25-Ohm 3-Watt Rheostat. Fan is 12V. charger is 7.5V

So. Finally got around to making a make-shift stir plate (turned a coffee can upside down...curve on the bottom fits a flask perfectly!) Had all components except the potentiometer which I bought from radio shack. I have a power supply (550 mA) to a computer fan and when I plug it in with the...

Read the sticky on partial mash and thought it would be an easy way to step up from extract instead of going to all grain. Happy medium. This would be my 8th batch. Got the instructions from an AHS kit and matched up the steps from the sticky. Not much difference aside from the sparging...

As this was my 5th batch ever...I suppose I should solemnly dump the beer and the sanitize the bejeezus out of everything and repeat?

Ok. Let it go for about one week...just got a glass. There is no longer a urine smell taste. Almost no smell. However, the taste is awful. Vinegary...almost like a shot of pickle juice in the beer. I opened the keg up...no infection (to my eyes/knowledge). Looked like there was a an 1/8...

To YooperBrew, on this keg I did take apart and sanitize/clean all parts. Then assembled. When I sampled the beer when racking, it tasted a bit flat (of course) and it did have a very slight sweet taste. But nothing what I'm getting now. I do have that fear that this may be the first batch...

Kolsch kit from AHS. Don't have the recipe any longer and no way of looking it up online. Used White Labs Kolsch yeast (first time ever used liquid yeast...and did not make a starter). Sanitation is StarSan. I cleaned the keg with oxyclean free, rinsed multiple times, star san and soak for...

The title of this post tastes similar to the Kolsch beer I tried earlier this week. Extract kit and this was my 5th batch. Fermented in primary for 4 weeks at 66-67*F. No visible contamination in fermenter. NOTE: OG and FG were spot on to the spec sheet. Racked into a keg, making...

Welcome. Would have loved to have gotten that all grain system on Craigslist. Springfield/Decatur/Jacksonville.

That is also quite plausible. Haven't had any problems with measuring 5 gal on my other batches, but a culmination of more water and possibly less extract would be reasonable effects of my carbonated water. I probably should start checking/measuring/weighing/etc everything just to be safe...

Kegerator is at 40*F or so. Following the warming up, I let it sit for 5 minutes before drinking. while it was a little bit more manageable to drink, it just wasn't there. I've got another batch ready for kegging so I think I may just tuck this awful blackberry wheat away and let it age...

very good question Gremlyn1. That was my first fear as well, if I had actually add enough extract. I went through everything and only thing I didn't do was weigh the 6lbs of LME. Yet I haven't had any other problems with beers being carbonated water while trusting the weights of LME packed by...

Extract, partial boil. 6lb LME wheat 1oz Hersbrucker (60 min) 1oz cascade (15 min) Brewed this before and got great results. Difference with the carbonated water batch is adding extract when kegging and pitching onto a partial yeast cake.

This was my 5th batch and I modified a wheat beer recipe to include blackberry extract. Here's the happenings: After brewing, transferred wort to primary and added enough water on top of the wort to get to the 5 gal mark. Took a sample, then pitched yeast on top of a partial yeast cake...

Hello! Located in Central, IL (known as Southern Illinois to our Chicago friends), around Springfield/Decatur/Jacksonville. First, I'd like to thank a lot of people on here who have helped me successfully brew and keg three batches (brewed 5 batches total: one is completely finished off...

Well...it's been day 9 since I transferred wort to my primary. After the rapid, fermentation passed...I still have active fermentation. About 1-2 bubbles per minute. Is this odd? Haven't checked FG yet. One puzzling thing to me is that the room is 65*F and this beer (american wheat) still...