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I recently bought two ball lock corny kegs. When I tried to take them apart this evening to clean them, everything came apart as it should except the gas in valve on each keg. Is there a trick to getting them off? One is a regular hex nut, and the other is a 12 pt star. I have WD-40'd them...

Well, I had a sanke sitting around, so I made a big batch (15 gal) and stuck an airlock/stopper in the top. I was planning to let it sit for 6 months or so, but I wasn't sure if it would be better to bottle before to get it off the yeast.

OK, so I made my first 5 gal batch a week or so ago, and it should be at 5 weeks just in time for Christmas. I also made another batch to age. When aging for extended periods of time, do you leave it in the fermenter, or do you rack to bottles after fermentation and age in the bottle? I've...

OK, so I'm sure that there's a good way to do this that I am over looking. When I finish using it, I always run clean water through to rinse my syphon and tubing. I worry about how to get it clean and if I should use soap, since I am worried about soap residue inside. Also, once I get it...

I believe there is no reason to risk infecting your beer over a $10 item. Get the auto-siphon or learn to use the regular type properly. Nothing worse than waiting a month or two and trying a beer only to find you ruined it because you were lazy/cheap.

It is the non-scented version, I was curious what people thought of the process... I think it should be fine...

Just opened the first bottle of my Brown last night! Waiting is the hardest part of brewing!

I am planning on going the stopper/air-lock route on my sanke fermenter. I just recently got a keg and removed to the spear to find some several year old Coors. Any way, I boiled some water in it and soaked in in oxyclean for 24 hours. Now I am just planning to rinse and sanitize. Should...

Check out EdWort's post on Apfelwein, should point you in the right direction. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/man-i-love-apfelwein-14860/

Congrats! What are you brewing?

The easiest way is to use an auto-siphon. If you're using just a racking cane and tubing with a clamp, fill the enire cane/tubing with water and close the clamp. Then put the cane into what you are going to siphon and keep the clamp side lower. Open the clamp, and the water will flow out...

Pinche... I emailed LHBS to see when they were getting it. They emailed me back and said they found 100 lbs under some grain right after I left yesterday... Really?!?

Thought about ahs, but don't want to pay $8 shipping on a $10 order. I was hoping for a local place to pick it up, but it has proven to be quite elusive...

I've checked several health food stores witout luck. I may have to wait until next week when the LHBS gets it in...

I am using it to ferment EdWorts Apfelwein, which I have not made before, so I was really hoping to stick with the recipe. I checked our local Central Market and Whole Foods, but I haven't been able to find it. I will keep looking, and let you know if I find it.

Any idea where else I might be able to locate dextrose/corn sugar other than the LHBS?

I plan on traveling by car with a keg to a Christmas party 5 hours away. The beer is currently in the secondary. I am planning to rack into a Corny, but I am unsure what I should do to keep from having too much sediment mixed into the beer when I arrive at the party. Should I...

Still bubbling away, going to taste after the primary and make a decision on keeping. My fingers will be crossed between now and then...

Fermentaion temp was 70-72

Unfortunately, SWMBO found both explosions before I did and was close to exploding as well. To avoid cleaning up three explosions, I had to clean quickly and was unable to properly document the blow off. If you can imagine someone getting killed with an axe in the shower on CSI, with blood...