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5 gallons of wort in an unwieldy BP (10Gal.) caused me spillage during transfer also. Usually I am brewing alone and have no help to lift and steady the BP during transfer to the fermenter. I solved this by dumping about half (or less) of the contents of the brewpot into a smaller sanitized pot...

If you are bored. Or want a better understanding of what you mite be brewing with when you add honey to your beer......this is a pretty good read. http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/

MoreBeer just announced that their new warehouse is open for business and shipments from it located in Pa. This should mean faster shipments to the central and eastern parts of the country.

The bottles are not even anywhere hot or warm to the touch after rinsing. I suppose anything is possible but I have been reusing these same bottles and the same process for 2 years now and no probs as of yet. In my case I will continue with the practice until evidence that the process has issues...

The usual advice when short time beer doesn't seem as good as longer term beer is to give it more time to become better and this is what I would do.

I use my hot tap water which I have set just hot enough that you don't want to use it straight to wash your hands other than for a quick dunk. I have not noticed any malforming or softening of the bottles when quick rinsed. I do not let the hot water sit in them however. And I would never use...

In the future, do yourself a favor and just quickly rinse out the bottles after emptying. Put some warm water in and shake and drain..... maybe a couple of times. Recap lightly. The bottle should already be sanitary when uncapped so you basically just want to get rid of any sediment which in my...

It is a great homebrewing magazine. Lots of top notch informative articles by some of the movers and shakers in the homebrewing industry, usually accompanied by nice full color pics. Lots of how to articles and issues featuring multiple articles on single homebrewing topics.........like a...

Kudos to the original poster for the heads up to the community in this serious matter. Many of the resulting posts are at best conjecture and a few to one extent or another could harm the reputation of a respected member of the homebrew supply industry. Tread carefully here. An apology post...

I am worn out already and all I did was read the steps not actually do the brewday......or was it 2 brewdays LOL Sometimes simplification is the key to happiness ! Have fun

I love both of my 30L's. One thing you rarely see mentioned is how nice the large opening is on them. It makes cleaning the inside a breeze. On the 30L units you can easily reach down in all the way to the bottom to wash/wipe the inside of the unit. Also the wide opening is perfect for pouring...

When I finish filling my fermenter I take a small piece of kitchen paper towling and soak it in sanitizer and push it up a bit into the spigot. I then tear off a small square of tin foil and drench it in sanitizer and wrap it around the spigot where they set until I am ready to bottle. When I...

Each batch of beer that I have done in my speidels has shown airlock activity at different times from the start. The fastest I saw was about 3 hours and I had one batch that took 36 hours. I have 30L units in which I do 5G batches so there is quite a bit of head space to fill with co2 before...

I use 1L Pet bottles rather than glass and it is quite easy to bottle the beer without tubing. I use the spigot directly with no tubing attached. Before filling my first bottle I run off several ounces first which contain xtra sediment which sometimes collects in the spigot into a clear glass...

I am wondering if the airlock that comes with the speidels might not release more than what 1 bubble on a 1 piece type airlock might indicate with each rise and drop. In other words 1 rise to the top and release of the large airlock might actually be releasing more volume of co2 than 1 bubble...

I have placed 1 gallon marks from 1-5 gallons on the outside of my 30L's using a black magic marker. It is fairly easy to see the water/wort line through the opaque plastic and see where it levels off vs the graduations.

I get a slight beer'y.....yeast'y smell in my speidel tanks. About the same as what I smell after draining the beer off and only trub/yeast remaining in the bottom. It is not overpowering and not objectionable. It is slightly less so after rinsing and washing. I don't notice any of it changing...

On my last brewday I hefted the 20#'er and it felt like it 'mite' have had enough left in it to get to boil and do a 60m boil. Approx 1h20m total. I would not have started if I didn't have a back up just in case. When the boil was finished I did flame out and shut things down. Next day took the...

If you cannot find a local source which has 'reasonable pricing' you might want to check out MoreBeer.com online. The shipping will probably kill the deal on a small order but if you can muster up an order of $59 shipping is free anywhere in the country and my orders from Cal to Mich have taken...

In RV camping circles attention is paid to the water hookup hose that connects the campground source of water to the camper. I have seen it stated that the problem with the hoses arises from the hose sitting out in the hot sun for extended periods of time and breaking down the chemical make up...