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What I've been doing is filling the tube with water to prime it. Probably not the most sanitary, but I've yet to have any problems.

Ok, so I'm brewing a doppelbock using an octoberfest yeast and due to poor planning and warmer temperatures all of a sudden I can't seem to hold the temp much under 70. It's about a day and a half into the primary and the temp seems to be holding steady. Any tips on fighting off flavors? I'm...

I've seen stuff like this with fermenting various juices (I like to experiment, most juices make NASTY wine). The CO2 gets supersaturated, when you jostle it a bit, bubbles start to for on the trub, the trub gets lifted up providing a stirring action that produces more bubbles, so on and so...

Gah, my bad. reading fail.

The cost would be $20 and having to drink coors. Considering that you can get new pigs for less than that, there isn't any reason for anyone to convert one of these. https://www.partypig.com/order.html $17 for two.

It won't be the most expired yeast people have ever made a starter with.

I'd bring them back and ask for fresh ones. If they won't work with you, I'd try to find another brew shop.

hydrometer is your best bet. If it's still heavy you can repitch yeast.

I had no issues with head retention when I did exactly this.

update. the ones kept on their side carbed decently but I did notice a bit of a syrupy leakage around the caps. not enough to drip just enough to see. I've got some new ones bottled with 2 rubber washers stacked to increase the pressure on the seal. I'm gonna store them sideways too. If that...

batch now bottled. Took a taste of the leftover dribbles after filling the last bottle. It isn't as hoppy as I expected but it is good. Would dry hopping add a bit more hops kick?

I'm very impressed. And yes, if the translation is accurate it should be fine.

That's... that's not even a sentence. I'm afraid you are going to have to put your words in a bit more of a making-some-sense order. As it stands now, your post is completely unreadable.

cool tool but it doesn't have corn sugar, podered sugar, or anything like that. Oh, and as I understand it LME takes a bit more so maybe 1 1/4 of that.

for a 5 gal batch you want about 3/4 a cup.

I think it will be tough to pull off but it could be cool.

there are very few beers I move to a secondary on. I don't much care about clearing so if you are like me feel free to skip it. You do get some flavor benefit from additional time away from the trub, but it isn't a huge difference to me.

If you are thinking you will only do one or two batches, go ahead and get the mr beer setup.

you could also wash out and sterilize soda/seltzer bottles.

$50 total since they include the first kit. As someone who's brewed with both, they are both the same effort. Steps are: steep any specialty grains you are using (can be skiped if not using specialty grains) disolve extracts over low to medium heat boil and add hops as directe din recipe allow...