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Hey kids, Building a new weldless keggle, and looks like I may have gone just a bit too big with the unibit (step drill). I only went to the recommended 7/8" but I probably should have stopped at 3/4". When filled with hot water, the build doesn't leak too badly, but there's definitely a...

Hey folks - anyone tried shipping full cornies? Any advice?

I think 51 and drunk is an admirable aspiration for all of us. Cheers, Madman. Best of luck, Penguin.

Amen, brother. Another 'amen' to the Cascade. Great dry-hopping hop for IPAs.

Since I secondary and dry-hop in keg I certainly don't strain. I like to have a little yeast cake go in with the finished beer. Lets the yeast clean up a little more since they'll spend a couple more weeks in secondary in the keg. What's remaining of the trub comes out in the first pint. Then...

You really need to use a blowoff tube. Get some tubing from your LHBS and rig it up so that it blows into a bowl of StarSan. Otherwise you risk a big mess and possible contamination of your beer once all the sanitized liquid is blow out of the fermentation lock. To rig up a simple blowoff...

Maybe I'll leave them in and call it 'Colorado Mezcal Ale'.

Only concern I would have is whether or not you primed the keg to carbonate the beer. Since you've bottled in the past I'm sure you're familiar withe the concept and took care of this. In all my brews I skip the secondary in favor of a longer primary to give the yeast time to clean up after...

That's basically what you do to test for conversion, but Yooper is right, in my opinion. You're probably going to have the same amount of conversion at 90 that you would at 60.

No need to worry. Dry hopping is really quite difficult to get wrong. Your beer will taste great. I'd be more worried about getting that muslin bag out of the carboy. Most folks just throw the pellets or whole hops right into the secondary. If you're worried about getting hop residue in your...

Thanks, Zymurgrafi. You must be right. As difficult of a brew day as I had, I like to think I was still pretty antiseptic. At least I hope I didn't allow maggots in there. Prost...

Good grief. I can't believe I did that. Is it too obvious that I've already relaxed, quit worrying and had several home brews?

Thanks for taking a look. The concern for me is the rice-like particles floating at the top. The kraeusen was vigorous and beautiful, as you can see. But these little maggot-looking buggers appeared after the kraeusen went down. Could just be flocculating yeast, as you said. But that's a strange...

Thanks for the heads up. That's a dirty little trick...I finally filled out a little more on my profile. Cheers.

Maybe that's why I didn't get it. I'm a particularly humorless fellow. Whatever this thing is, I vow not to brew drunk anymore. (At least until next time.):tank:

Smells fine, like a deliciously hoppy pale ale. I used 1056 that I had collected from a previous batch of the same recipe. I used established washing procedures (as documented in the HBT wiki) to collect and start the yeast. Really not terribly worried, but more than a little curious to see...

That would be pretty nasty. But they don't move, and I don't think maggots could survive in liquid. And, I think they need some sort of dead meat to chow on. Not sure they could survive the Colorado winter out of doors, either, which was where this sucker was brewed. I thought maybe they...

I've posted this in the beginner's section to not incur the wrath of the HBT AG guys. This is my first post here, but I'm a relatively experienced AG brewer. I'm not freaking out about the possibility of an infection, but am curious about the white, rice-like kernels floating at the top of my...