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I use PBW or Oxyclean, fill it half way up with HOT water. I got a screw-on cap for my 6.5 gallon carboy (the neck is threaded).. and I leave it upside down overnight.. by morning the ring of kreusen is gone. I leave the keg right side up to clean any smeg off the bottom, dump it all out and...

Drew, All grain is usually quite a bit cheaper than extract or partial mashing. That's where you see these sub 20 costs, or near 20 costs. Other factors are bulk grain purchases, bulk hop purchases (7bucks/lb vs. 1.25-1.50 an ounce at the LHBS), re-using yeast.. etc. I'm on batch #9...

I found mine via craigslist

Oh man I've got a dozen or so. How To Brew The Complete Joy Of Home Brewing New Brewing Lager Beers Microbrewed Adventures Radical Brewing Clone Brews North American Clone Brews Beer Captured I'm missing a bunch I can't remember the titles of right now....

There's a number of good reasons.. Better hop utilization Lessened chance of carmelization of sugars sterilization of full fermentable volume to name a few.

You'd be better off using pure cider with no preservatives. Or atleast check that your concentrate isn't preserved by potassium sorbate or other means. You'll have a heck of a time getting a ferment going with a preservative in the fermenter. Also be aware most ciders take considerable time...

Stainless cleans easier, but of course is heavier. if I were to start from scratch again I'd pick up a used commercial keg, lop the top off and put a ball valve on it (like I have now) rather than messing with a 'normal' brew pot.

Mead is a honey wine, certainly not a beer. Keep in mind, boiling honey will take out a lot of the aroma and flavor compounds. If you are truly interseted in making a mead I suggest you pick up Ken Schramm's "The Compleat Mead maker" (yes that's how the title is spelt). Meads are going to...

13 dollar kegs. http://www.homebrewing.org/home.asp

Uh.. It took me all of 3 minutes to replace all 5 o-rings on my kegs. I have so many o-rings from mcmaster carr for next to no cash I can rebuild enough kegs to last a lifetime (atleast the small orings), i have 10 lid orings too.

I realise what step mashes do, however most grains are fully modified now that those lower end mashes aren't needed. That's why a lot of folks hit for 150-160 and don't bother with the 130s. I know what 167 does too, but he talks about raising the temp and THEN sparging. He makes no...

gelatin or agar is a growth medium for the yeast. that with a little bit of yeast nutrient and DME. basically you boil a cup of water w/ some dme and yeast nutrient.. add some gelatin as it cools and pitch into your test tubes. maybe 1/4 to 1/3 full. you take your test tubes and...

There are a number of folks who store sterile wort (boiled, in a sanitized container) for easy yeast innoculation later. It's not a bad practice at all.. as long as your sanitation is good.

My last batch, a vanilla porter cost me 18 bucks. Most of my batches average 22-28.

I haven't done any yeast saving for myself yet, but the general consensus from the vast reading on the subject suggests not saving the yeast from the secondary.. for a number of reasons which include: fatigue, mutations and possible contamination from racking to secondary. Most folks I've...

Hrm my post disappeared... or something. I use 1/2 - 1 gallon of diluted star san in my carboy, i just swirl it around until i get all the surface wet.. give it a minute dump it out and drain my kettle into it. never been a problem, produces so little foam it's no worries. I've used...

Breaking glass carboys is yet another reason I want to move to Better Bottles. Plastic, non oxygen permeable PET plastic. I forget what was special about the PET they used.. but it was different from Ozarka bottles and whatnot.

I dont see why everyone hates the foam, it's just foamy star-san bubbles. I rack on top of them all the time.. If you let the foam settle out you'll find less than a tablespoon of star-san liquid remains, which would not impact taste at all. I've got a 32 oz thing of Iodophor that I'm using...

ScottT, Not to make more argument but I've never heard of someone getting ill from star-san, but from iodine.. yes.

1) I can smell Iodophor at a rate of 2 caps (1/2oz) per 5 gallons (12.5ppm). 1 cap for 4g puts you under 12.5ppm.. so I dont see how you use it as an effective sanitizer.. that is unless you aren't using BTF Iodophor (other products may have a different amount per gallon) 2) Who wants to...