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Thanks for the tip! I ended up getting their Not so Common Common kit too.

I bought this aerator stone pump about a year ago and it's done pretty well by me. Recently I noticed a bit of moisture had accumulated inside the clear output tube feeding into the filter and the moisture contained trace amounts of mold. To be safe I wanted to order a new filter for it but the...

Thanks for the replies. I'm not thrilled about the wording of my original post but the statement above "never try to get a higher finishing gravity by pulling the beer early" answers my question. I was not aware of this until now and it probably explains why this beer tastes 'off'. I yanked it...

I'm having a tough time understanding the concept of FG. Now that I'm brewing big IPAs I'm looking to obtain a sweeter beer, which implies that the beer needs to finish higher, but I'm also trying to figure out how to manage this without ending fermentation too soon or drying the beer up. The...

I didn't get any feedback on the above post so I forged ahead and went my own way on this recipe. My batch started out life as a German Heff. After primary I split the bucket into two 2.5 gal batches and moved one straight into a keg and the other into another bucket for secondary. From there I...

I just brewed a Heff (Wheat extract, 8oz Carafoam, 1.5oz Tetnanger and .5 of Hallertau, 3068 with starter) that I intend to make into a Strawberry beer and was having a hard time drawing up definitive answers on a few things. First, I've done alot of research (on this forum in particular)...

Thanks guys. I knew nothing about this. I'll have to research this change over and consider removing the old ones.

I've been having trouble with my taps getting sticky and last night took the cake when i tried to pull an IPA and had to use so much force that I broke the brass handle while the beer was tricking out at nearly full speed. Anyways I ordered some replacement SS levers but I'm trying to figure...

I wondered about the viability using thin SS mesh for long term immersion. Whether it be a strainer, tea-ball, or something like what you constructed above (which is really a great idea because it solves issues I struggle with during racking) has anyone run into issues with the SS eventually...

I thought the same thing. Not all of the bourbon was lost but most of it was. There should still be some flavor left especially since I had planned on soaking the cubes for two months. My main concern was the loss of the cubes too.

I have been soaking some oak cubes and bourbon in a ziplock Baggie for over a month now. Today in a senior moment my wife managed to lodge the Baggie between a cabinet and the microwave puncturing the bag and leaking most of the bourbon out. She then put the Baggie in the sink to clean the up...

Well, unfortunately this (expensive) beer turned out to be a great lesson of what NOT to do. Obviously using the Home Depot paint strainer bags just does NOT work for pellet hops (despite that I had seen several posts on here that appeared to claim it did). Once I did get the bag out of the keg...

I dry hopped with pellets. I got the same Home Depot paint strainer bags someone on here mentioned and I even doubled the bag over to thicken it before tying it off. There are definitely flakes floating around in it. It's hard to say if some of it isn't sediment from primary that made it over...

I took the advice of some of you and decided to dry hop in the keg for this latest IPA. I didn't do anything extravagant, I just filled a sanitized paint strainer, tied the bag shut and dropped it into the keg. It's been about two weeks now and the beer is doing nicely but I'm getting ALOT...

I suspected that and when I strain water through the specialty grains with extract I make sure not to let the strainer come into contact with the wort out of fear some of the extract might get soaked up into the spent grains. Most of the back and forth happens in separate kettles. Fwiw I...

I'm going to pose what would probably be a stupid question but I think my brain tells me there's some logic to it so I'm gonna go with it. I have been extract brewing for years now and have changed my procedures a bit such that I fill the brew kettle with very little water and instead brew...

I want to take a second to respond to this. First of all, thank you guys for your responses. I pulled my kegs out and put them at room temp last night. There a a few responses above that sort of raise more questions. Re: transferring multiple times before carbing: two things, are you...

Since I started brewing years ago I made a conscious decision to skip 2ndary. A lot of this decision was based on feedback in this forum. Since I had a couple of batches go south and I didn't see the benefit of risking exposing the beer to another transfer stage I just didn't do it. Well...

I used my cane so the top was open to the air the whole time, hence my realization. I suppose I could have hit the empty with some CO2 prior to taking the lid off just to push out as much oxygen as possible, but I didn't think about that. It was pretty foamy too. I drew off some last night...

I kegged a DIPA a couple of weeks ago and I had quite a difficult time racking in between the trub and the dry hop mess all over the top. I managed to get everything in there but apparently a lot of hops went in with it, so much so that it clogged the out tube and made the beer untapable. In...