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Hind-sight is always 20-20, will definitely get blow-tubing for my next big beer and do it appropriately. Good to hear about the Co2 though, fingers crossed. The eruption seems to have tappered when I got home this evening and the lid was still intact.

Needless to say the fermentation became.... shall I say, vigorous... early this morning. I walked out to go to work and peaked in the garage to see the lid sitting 3ft away after having been jettisoned from the bucket. I wiped it down a pit, sanitized the rim of the lid and the bucket, put it...

This is the batch from hell... o checked the garage this morning before leaving for work and I found the remains of a bucket bomb. Lid blew off 3 feet away! Huge head of krausen still there. Cleaned the lid as best I could and put a clean airlock on and its still bubbling like crazy. Other...

So clenaing/organizing the garage today I noticed the black grommet in the lid of my fermenter, containing a belgian dark i brewed on Saturday, was half pushed into the bucket. So I decided the smartest thing was to pull the airlock, run upstairs for my leatherman, and try and pull it back up...

I measured my grain temp at about 64* and set my tun temp to the same as a rough estimate. I did not preheat the tun either. I did notice after i added the infusion that I was getting inconsistent temps in various spots in the mash. I might try doing the strike in reverse like some of you...

Well... not even really sure this is a software issue. Two batches in a row now I have missed my target temps when mashing in and infusing. I have set up my equipment settings as accurately as possible. Both times I have been using my 100qt cooler mash tun for 10 gallon batches with 20-30 lbs of...

12x 1L Bailed amber bottles 12x 1/2L Bailed amber bottles 1x Mash paddle 1x HopBlocker a Skil Saw for building my brewstation in the garage this summer, yippee!

Before I moved into my current house, I had a couple 3 or 5 gallons jugs i would haul off to the RO water machines in front of the grocery store. For less than $5 I could get 11 gallons of RO water.

abit, thanks! Its running full-time right now and have been in and out of the location numerous times and seen the unit there. He just recently put it up for sale.

I have a potential source for what looks like a True GDM19-T, looks like this: True GDM-19T-F Glass Door Freezer Merchandiser - 19 Cu. Ft. I already have a small-dorm style fridge kegerator so I'm not too concerned with converting it so much as a fermenter? Asking price is $500 and it...

MrSuds is closing?!? Im gonna have to jam over there today and snag some stuff. Are they just getting rid of their LBHS stuff or they closing the whole place?

My LHBS/brewery does an excellent B&T using a Black IPA and a Rye PA. Very tasty stuff.

Awesome, thanks guys!

I think my favorite part about brewing is making my own recipes. Tinkering with someone else's is okay but I prefer to start from scratch. I love my Designing Great Beers book, but when i had the urge to create a Tripel, I dove in only to find there is no section on Belgian beers!! Looking for a...

Thanks! Yeah, its about 65 and sunny out right now =]. Hopefully I can get something of a pump system working Friday night so I dont have to worry about gravity so much, thats the key right now.

I will be doing my first outdoor brew session this weekend after a couple of years of kitchen brewing. Where as before I had the benefits of gravity to aid in transfers, I know will be switching to a turkey burner that sits 6" off the ground at best. I just bought equipment for a pump setup but...

Pulled my porter out of the fermenter and it had a very thing greyish film sitting on the top of the beer. Nothing furry or fuzzy about it. I skimmed what i could off the top and went ahead and bottled. Just took a look at some of my bottles and that same film is forming in the bottle as well...

I brewed a English Mild a week+ ago and just bottled it last night. I pitched to a starter and split it across my 10 gallon batch. No major issues with fermentation other than a clogged airlock on one. WHen i racked to my bottling bucket last night, in both cases, the cake on the bottom was...

Give a local Ferguson a call or other plumbing distributor.