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From the recipe description in your link "This kit includes a lager yeast that will also perform well if fermented at ale temperatures." I'd still keep it as low as possible, but should be pretty clean if they have that as the opening line for the yeast.

Yup. Keg blowoff prevents keg from turning into bomb, Reg blowoff prevents backflow into the tank, but it doesn't really protect your regulator, i.e. When you really screw up is when you hook the gas line up to the liquid post on the keg with the reg turned way down or high pressure in the keg...

Warm it up. You'll be good, especially with Notty. I have done 50F on purpose with notty and it works, just a little slower. Honestly, you probably helped your beer taste better. Slow and low with notty is a good thing.

agree with atoughram and would also recommend checking another bottle just in case it was a bad seal.

Ah, the blowoff valve on the reg (at least on mine) will blow off if the pressure in the keg is higher than what the regulator is set to. Prevents backflow into the bottle. So if you put in 55psi, unhook, shake, and try to hook it back up, it will probably blow off since you increased pressure...

Sounds like you did it right, or at least good enough. The carbonation will improve over the next week or so. I usually start drinking after a couple shakes, but it takes a few days to a week (depending on how much shaking I did to start) chilled at the right pressure/temp to really hit the...

I keep it pretty simple when I do 1 gallon batches. I brew in a bag with a a 3 gallon pot and a 2 gallon pot Kettle 1 - heat 1 gallon to mash temp, drop in bag of grain, maintain temp. Toward end of mash, heat 1 gallon in kettle 2 to mash out temp End of mash, pull bag from kettle 1, drop into...

I just got a bunch of Nalgene 3L PPCO bottles with mason jar threads leftover from a project at work and want to use them for some small batch ferments. I'm having a hard time finding a lot of info on PPCO vs other plastics and thought I'd see if anyone around here could tell me more. They...

I agree with everything madscientist says except the 1 gallon batch part. I have recently started doing 1 gallon all batches after a couple years of extract and all grain brewing 5 and 10 gallon batches. I still do a big batch about once a month, but now I also do a 1 gallon batch a couple...

Definitely skip the secondary in your situation. As you dig around threads on here you will see a lot of advice on skipping secondary as it is not really necessary on the homebrew scale. Personally I use them, but more as part of process to work around some system limitations to keep my...

Fermented oatmeal and some whiskey in the coffee...sounds like my Saturdays are about to improve.

I have experience making beer and root beer, but not alchoholic root beer. My thoughts: Use a cleaner yeast, I tried bakers yeast just for bottling root beer once and it really hurt the flavor Beware the bottle bombs. When you bottle, I assume you want a lot of residual sugar so that the...

Best of luck with it. Definitely worth finishing out and hoping for the best, but in my experience WLP001 (comp to US05) gets pretty bad when it gets too hot. It will have a good time fermenting, but may have too many esters to be very drinkable. I am on the verge of dumping a keg of IPA with...

I think I read every post in this thing over the last few days. My 2 cents - Try some small batches. I have been having a lot of fun doing 1 gallon batches between bigger batches and I feel like it has helped me as a brewer too because I get to focus a lot more on what I'm doing. You can do a...

This thread is the reason I finally stopped lurking and joined the forum: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=381045 It's not exactly what you are describing, but there is a lot of good dairy fermentation knowledge in it. The kefir grains have both yeast and bacteria, but as...

I will do my sparge to get to recipe volume and boil. In a separate smaller pot I tilt and empty the mash tun and do a separate, usually weaker, brew just for fun with whatever hops I happen to have on hand. I try to keep some 1 gallon carboys on hand for these random experiments. As mentioned...

Dang. I'm gonna give mine til the new year before I taste it again, but now I have even less hope.

From what you've listed, I'd start with number 4. I use WLP001 a lot and I let one get too warm a few months ago (same as you, maxed out the temp strip so???) and it was pretty much undrinkable. I still have it in a keg to see if it ages out. I could see the older ingredients taking away from...

I always have the best intentions, but next thing I know the keg is kicked and I didn't put any away.

I'm trying to imagine a way to thread in on the inside of my upper weld on my keggle and get hops in without letting wort out. How would you plan on using it?