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You sound like you are a new brewer. Welcome to the club. As a word of advice, it is generally a better idea to call Midwest directly to voice your complaints. They can fix the problem for you and hopefully earn your repeated business. Starting a thread of this nature on a very popular forum...

I have six now and figure I will probably have 8-10 eventually when I start doing a couple of wine of appflewien or extended aging brews (but I want to age in kegs too). I was thinking maybe a cabinet with doors to keep light out?

Thanks for the tips everyone, my first ale with my washed yeast is krausening successfully. Yay!

Sorry I dont know where I got that. If you would like I can edit or delete my post.

The OP stated he had a 32qt kettle, so that is why I recommended he prepare two vessels. It seems kinda obvious to me that if you had a 10g kettle you would be set to go... :p

With all do respect, plenty of people do partial boil BIAB batches. If you are only adding a gallon or so you'll never notice the difference. When you are doing BIAB, your sparge water will end up looking almost exactly like your mash water. You can boil them both, or combine as much as...

It totally depends on what yeast you are using. Kolsch can be commonly made as either an ale or a lager. My kit came with Ale and it turned out great, very clean taste. http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/strains_wlp029.html I guess even with the ale yeast people like to condition it cold to keep the...

When doing BIAB you will TOTALLY need AT LEAST two good sized kettles (5g and 7.5g would work great) one for mash, one for sparge (and whichever is bigger for the final boil obviously). You would also need something else such as an empty ale pail to hold the spent grains before they are...

Thanks for starting this thread, I just made the switch too. Even did the Noble Trappist first lol! I too had issues with boiloff evap volume. It's a learning experience. For me I dont really boil off enough. But I can help a little. I pour my kettle right into the fermenter with a large mesh...

Most people boil 7.5g down to about 5.5g and then about 5.25g goes into fermenter after straining. My kettle is 7.5g so I can only boil about 7g max and my indoor kitchen stove doesnt boil without 80% lid covered so I dont get much boiloff evap. This are the issues I am running into, just made...

Holy cow! Kewl!! If you start with the Rye Spirits, are you just cask-aging them? Is there anything else to the process that I am missing or is it just flavoring from the barrel?

I am confused by people saying they use super cold temps for their lagers. If you look at the website for the yeast strain, most of them appear to me to say 'ferment at 60-63, the lager at 50-55f'. Why would you go colder? It would seem me that colder would just further slow down the...

I personally would replace them. Who knows how long the old ones have been in service or what the keg used to hold? The new o-rings you got should last for several years. Why not just pop 'em on? Not to mention when I first get a keg I like to disassemble it and sanitize all the parts that are...

Thanks for the concern guys it is appreciated but the lid is on the kettle and it's a 7.5g kettle. I even drape a small towel over the top of the kettle for safety. The kettle is never boiling, either. I let it sit on the stove for a few minutes to calm down a little. It couldn't be easier (and...

I think you have to select yeast slurry?

If your airlock is directly in the center of the lid, you should be able to make an offset stack. Each bucket on the 2nd row would be stacked on the edges of the two buckets below it. Think of the way bowling pins are set up. ..U U U U U .U U U U U U

DOH it was in the thread title man how did I miss that. Thanks.

If they are close to me and have the supplies I need at a reasonable price I will go there. The employees dont have to be master brewers for me to be happy as long as they are helpful and good customer service (ie fix mistakes) I dont mind that most stores do gardening too. It's neat and when I...

I am in my first year of brewing and have wondered the same thing. My kegerator is in the garage (tuckunder garage, uninsulated, about 40degrees) and so far nothing has frozen. We have had a few (all temps deg F) 0 - neg5 days but no super extended cold swings. I turned the fridge completely off...

Nostalgia thanks for pointing out your awesome perlick threaded adapters these are genius and I DID find these when I searched the thread, but I posted that I do not have the perlicks with screw off tends. :) Thanks again for replying to me! ksbrain I dont know why I thought I HAD to have the...