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The pressure in a closed vessel changes with temperature, do you keep the nitro tank in the kegerator? If so, that's probably what made the gauge go down.

Check the date on that thing, I'm pretty sure they moved to pry offs across their whole line up about a year ago. Can't agree with this enough. That's odd, I've had some trouble capping the standard short fat Boulevard bottles. The cap never quite snaps on like with other bottles, and I've...

1.080 to 1.026 puts you at about 7% ABV. I don't think champagne yeast are required. I would let the temp rise to about 70F, and see if that drops it a few points. Let it stabilize again, then you can add priming sugar and the US05 that's in there should carb it fine.

Love this idea, I've also been kicking it around in my head for a while. For inoculating the samples, how about just rubbing them on the kitchen counter, or even better, a used dish washing sponge. As for the agar, that stuff has the consistency of jello, right? I agree that a spray might not...

Wow, 92% of the way there in 4 days.

Ok, read a few other threads and just threw a black shirt on my carboy. I've got a few bottles in there as well, but they are of course all brown, so I think the consensus it they should be fine. The light seems to work great as a heater, now to just keep my eyes on it and make sure it doesn't...

I just got one of these to heat my ferm chamber. While it bills itself as an infrared lamp, it puts out a ton of visible light. Which of course makes me worry about UV output as well. Anyone have any clues as to how to find out the UV output of this puppy? Thanks.

Another good experience with Midwest. I've never had to return anything, but once I did buy a bunch of stuff 2 days before they started a big sale. I called and they gave me the sale price.

Most of your post went over my head, so I can't comment. But... So I assume you've looked into and aren't worried about hot side aeration?

Also you don't want to open the tap part way. This will give you a glass full of foam even with a perfectly carbed beer on a perfectly balanced system.

Conventional wisdom on here is that unless you filter, or let it settle for a really long time (over 6 months) you still have plenty of yeast to carbonate. It probably just took these guys 5 total weeks to do the job, and the pinch you added probably didn't really do anything. Revvy's example...

Anyone looking to get away from paying for bottles, try calling restaurants around you to see if they recycle. The restaurant I work at goes through 100s of bottles a week, and they'll just be sitting around out back until the recycling place picks them up.

After some uncertainty on my mash temps for my first two all grain batches, I'm thinking about going ahead and springing for a super nice thermometer to save myself future headaches. I'm just wondering if there is a regular timing on the Thermapen open box sales. Looks like the last few were...

How long is it OK to keep hops for?

Gonna have to respectfully disagree. According to the commonly quoted pitching rate of 1 mil viable cells per ml per degree plato, a 100 billion cell smack pack would be good for a 5 gallon batch only up to 1.020. This isn't to say you won't make beer if you underpitch, but it probably isn't...

Tallgrass already has an 8-Bit Pale Ale. Great suggestions all around though.

Distilled water at the correct temp (usually 60F) will read 1.0

Specific gravity is specific gravity, no matter what liquid you are measuring. You can check the accuracy of your hydrometer with distilled water at whatever temp it is calibrated to (usually 60F)

Are you saying you put 1oz of starsan in the carboy with only 2-3 gallons of water? If so, you are making it about double strength. I have no clue if this would create any off flavors or not, but I don't think it's a good idea.

Did you add top-off water to the fermentor? If so, the wort probably wasn't mixed all the way and the 1.044 was incorrect. Now the start of fermentation has thoroughly mixed the wort and the 1.050 is probably closer to correct OG. Also, if it was an extract kit, and you filled to the correct...