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Maybe I am tempting infection... but I don't sanitize the bottles beyond throwing them in the dishwasher with high temp wash set to "on" and the heat dry cycle set to "on".

If you are going to continue collecting bottles.... My tip to you would be to get a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, fill it with oxyclean solution and leave it in the garage. After you finish drinking a beer, rinse it out in the faucet then dump it in the bucket of oxyclean. First time I brewed...

I split this batch and bottled 3 gallons as a regular hefeweizen last week. I put 3 pounds of peaches in a 3.5 gallon bucket and racked the rest onto the peaches for a week and bottled that on Sunday. Both half batches seemed to taste ok. Some other notes about this brew: I tried using a...

I think it also depends on the style of beer you are making. I have made a couple of Hefeweizens and all the reviews of the dry yeast were not so hot for what I was looking for (lots of banana and clove esthers),so I stuck with the liquid yeast.

I have gone past the 72 hour mark, but not much. It won't hurt anything for it to sit another day. Do you have a good seal on your bung/lid?

On your next batch... try ordering the grains from a place like Austin Home Brew. My first few batches were at a consistent 77%-80%. I decided to give my local homebrew place a shot for my last batch and efficiency went down to 55% (had to fix it with DME). At least you could rule in/out...

I had to do this recently on a broken hefe. DME did the trick... not what I would have wanted to do, but better than dumping 5 gallons a several hours down the drain. I took a sample when doing a hydrometer reading and it tasted fine.

I get that close without using Fermcap. Probably should use it... but I just monitor my boil and don't let it get too crazy.

I actually thought of that. I guess my thinking was that if I am going to spend 5 hours brewing... And a tiny bit of extract allows me to get an extra gallon of beer without impacting the flavor... Why not? With all the hops in this recipe, this will be an expensive AG brew. I would have to...

Looks like Northern Brewer has the hops. I have never used them.... any worries about their pre-crushed grains? Figured I might as well order everything from them for this batch if they have the hops.

thanks for the advice! Now I need to find someone that isn't out of stock on Simcoe hops :)

I recently had to "adjust" a broken hefeweizen and the advice from this board was that DME adds 43 points per gallon. I just did the math by hand and it came out to slightly under a pound if everything goes exactly as planned.

yeah, basically my plan was to assume 65% and have a pound of DME on hand to adjust the gravity after taking a pre-boil gravity reading. If I get better than 65%, then great. I will add the DME before I start boiling so that I don't affect the hop utilization. That is also good to know that I...

My brother in law wants to come down and help me brew and split a batch. Should be fun, but I need a little help on the type of beer he wants to brew. He wants to make the Dogfish 90 minute IPA clone. Trouble is that I have a 28 (7 gallons) quart mash tun and this calls for 18.16 pounds of...

dip tube!

after adding more liquid to my 5.5 gallon batch and it foaming up like that... i was a bit nervous that it was going to gunk up my airlock, but it was fine this morning. Last night it was fermenting like crazy and has slowed down a bit this morning. Once this is ready, I will update this...

that was interesting... I heated up the water and had a booger of a time getting the DME to disolve in so little water, but eventually got it. I sanitized a paddle and poured the DME/Liquid into the fermenter and it started foaming like crazy. Good thing I keep my fermenter in a big tub...

last question (hopefully). Should I try and aerate the DME wert? Yeast was pitched 24 hours ago.

I assume I should boil the DME for 10 minutes, cool, then add. correct? boil longer?

gracias denada.... looks like I will be making a stop on the way home (at least they don't have to crush the DME :) ).