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I have another question, I only have one coupler and beer line. I had a commercial half barrel keg connected and I disconnected that keg that I had been serving out of. Will that keg be okay sitting around un-tapped with no CO2 going into it?

Yeah, I think after this one I will just let it carb up over a few weeks, it's just that this beer was in primary for a long time and then dry hopped for a week so I feel it's probably conditioned pretty well. Plus, it will be easier now that I have a pipeline of sorts going to wait.

I read through much of the stickies in the bottling/kegging section but I am still a bit lost on "burst" carbing. I made the move from extract/bottling to all grain/kegging in one fell swoop with my last batch. Everything went great (except that I had some stuck sparge issues that led to me...

Yes, that's for sure. If you plan on going to secondary, please wait much longer than 6 days before transferring. I'd think 2-3 weeks.

That is insanely high, will be insanely sweet, and around 2%. Messing up the OG can happen if you didn't do a full boil and didn't get much mixing in the primary with your top up water but getting an FG like that is crazy.

You do but not a double gauge regulator. Sorry I used the wrong term initially. On yours, one gauge is to show you the amount of CO2 left in the tank, and the other is the pressure you are pushing into the keg. The link you posted specifies it's for using two lines at the same pressure. "This...

That is, if you do not have a dual regulator where you can use multiple psi's for each line.

The pH scale is a logarithmic scale of free hydrogen ions in a system and "normally" ranges from 0 to 14. You can get below 0 but that's in incredibly acidic industrial acids. The pH of tap water ranges from 6.0-8.0. pH 7 is neutral, anything below that is acidic, anything above is basic. A pH...

I waited one week and was severely disappointed. It was a Ruination clone, was completely uncarbonated, and had zero bitterness. I was pretty sad about it. Then I waited 2 additional weeks and it carbonated up just fine, it still was not bitter at all (wrong yeast and the FG finished a full 10...

Did you add all the extract at the beginning of the boil or did you add most at the end? That was my first lesson in my first brew (another big ipa).

This is going to be my next batch! The recipe looks great. Any suggestions on modifications you would make?

I will drink them, although, I really dislike Guinness (the budweiser of stouts). I would rather increase the Jameson in it and reduce the amount of Irish cream, but that's just me.

I was very pleased with the FG, because my first beer (an extract) was nearly 10 points above what the FG should have been. Also, yeah, I mashed at 150F. I don't think so, I tried my best not to hit the bottom of the carboy with my wine thief. Okay, sounds like a plan. I will wait another...

Thanks for the comments, I will try my best to cold crash it in the next week and then dry hop. From what I've read, WLP001 doesn't flocculate as much as some other yeast (this is my second beer and the first used WLP002 which flocculates really well). I've got lots of time so I will let it sit...

This is my first all grain batch, and I'm having an issue with the beer not clearing in the primary fermentor. It's an IPA with WLP001. It has been in primary for a little over 2 weeks, and today I just checked the SG and got 1.010 (OG 1.072) and transferred that to a glass to taste. The beer...

Great thanks.

Thanks for the replies. I was just worried about my first kegging attempt. Yeah, the sanke is a 1/6th barrel (5 gallon). Yeah dry hopping in hop bags is difficult to deal with, I've done it before in secondaries and removing it sucks. I figured skipping the secondary would be better since I...

So I finished my first all grain batch. Brew day was horrible (stuck sparge that wouldn't get unstuck), but I eventually got it done. I got less wort into the boil kettle than I should have and it lead to less wort into the carboy. I got around 4.75 gallons in the carboy (I'm thinking I will...

From my experience, wlp002 finishes at higher fg's than others and leaves a sweet flavor that lingers. In my IIPA it finished higher than expected (og 1.072 fg 1.020) and the sweetness kind of overpowered the hoppiness (60 min 2oz warrior, 30 min 1oz cent, 10 min 1oz cent, flameout 1oz cent)...

When I read the title and saw the original pictures I immediately thought to post this video. Nice job.