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I actually did.. A shard of glass penetrated my heel. I had to remove it with my wife's tweezers. What a bloody mess! Maybe I should drop the beer brewing hobby and take up medicine school ;)

It was a very sad weekend for me! I completed my first All Grain batch several weeks ago and added some dry hops in the secondary. I was about to gently deposit the carboy in my cooler when it slipped out of my hand and SMASHED on my concrete floor:mad: I didn't realize how much of a mess 5...

What I get out of using a secondary is a very clean beer. I get compliments on how clear my brew is without even filtering it. And.. I like to add dry hops to my brew so I don't want all the hop pulp mixing in with the resting Yeast.

I just read some guy's posting about how important it is to having zero headspace in the secondary. Is this true or just a myth? I've made about 6 batches of beer and always had a fairly large headspace and never had any issues. It's obvious that you'd get headspace when transferring because...

WOW!! Made my first 5Gal batch of AG last weekend and I was VERY impressed with the results of my chiller! It took under 10 minutes to cool it from boiling down to pitching temp. The only downside is that it cooled the boiling wort when I first immersed it in my brew keg. I guess there's too...

I was wondering if anyone can tell me how dark it should be while the brew is fermenting. I've read a bit on how UV can affect the outcome of the beer. But, I'm not sure if I'm being paranoid by putting blankets on the carboys which are stored in a pitch black storage room in the basement. I...

Thanks, I was under the impression that the beer would be a lot cleaner if a secondary was used. I'd like to get into Kegs but I'll have to master the brewing process first. Then I'd have to convince the wife... Trust me!! I can't wait to get rid of the bottles!! Sanitizing bottles sucks!!

Wow.. So much math involved in AG brewing. I'm more of the Winging type. For me, it's more like baking a cake. Just follow the recipe... hope for the best.

Wow! I noticed the same thing with my first AG batch. My problem is that I didn't recirculate the first runoff of Wort from my cooler. I was too excited that my mash tun actually worked so well :) Next time I'll just collect the runoff and poor it back on top of the grains! How was your timing...

LOL. Love the avatar Walker. Sounds like sane advice. I think the reason it didn't take more time is that I had a couple extra hands to help lift/handle stuff. Also, The dual coil chiller I built dropped the temperature from boil to 26 degrees in just under 10 minutes.

AWESOME EXPERIENCE!! I made my first batch over the weekend! Wow.. wasn't expecting it to take 5 hours. I made the Cremora Cream Ale that is included in the beersmith software. I think my mash efficiency is quite good. The recipe calls for 1.052SG and I got over 1.060. The brew is...

LMAO!! This has been fun! Thanks for the info boys and sorry for posting a repeat question. I will add the grain to the water cause I don't want balls in my beer! ;)

I'm reading some recipes and noticed that a lot of recipes claim "say 5.5% ABV" but the acutal is 0.6%" Does this mean that their beer didn't ferment or was this just an input error? I'm looking to brew my first AG batch this weekend and don't want to waist my time making a 0.6% ale! Thanks.

I'm about to do my first all-grain batch this weekend and I'd like to know.. do brewers add the grain to the hot water or do they add the water to the grain in the Mash tun? Please expand a little on your answers. Thank you.

Bud Light Lime... I was ashamed to admit this but I had to warn everyone else that was on the fence about trying this!! STAY AWAY!! Not only is it a disgusting Bud, but it's so watered down with hint of synthetic lime flavor! How can then even call this garbage BEER?? I'm so glad it was free!!

I'm thinking that both coils in series would work better because the water flows towards the path of least resistance. Having 2 coils merge into 1 path would cause resistance in the flow. I'd really like to find some info for comparison. If you are correct, it would be simple for me to modify.

I think you're correct Danger. This is why my coils are connected in series. The water will flow the same across the entire chiller.

I used 1/2 outer diameter refrigerant copper. I used lead free solder "Silver something.." My first time working with copper and didn't have any problems. Fittings for 3/8" fit perfectly. The 2 towers are 1/2" inner diameter copper.

I would recommend using fresh berries, specially at this time of the year! You can get large quantities from Costco. I'd also recommend experimenting with smaller batches. I personally use brown sugar or candy sugar I find white sugar gives it a cider like flavor.