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First off I don't understand why letting someone else get your grains was a bad idea. You make no mention of how the brew day went, how chilling went, or if you sanitized everything your wort touched prior to pitching. From the sounds of a "sour bread smell" as well as "lagering for about 3...

Bottles I rinse out after emptying them. It's a LOT easier than trying to clean them with stuff in the bottom. For brewing equipment I clean it after I'm done using it and before putting it away. For sanitizing bottles I use the same vinitiator and a bottling tree.

A cold cylinder can hold more than a warm cylinder. I doubt they'd have problems filling a 5 lb cylinder in summer however without having a method to keep a bigger tank cold you'd be getting less than a full tank for something like a 20lb on a hot summer day in my experience with filling tanks...

I have cleaned mine once or twice before. I'm sure running PBW though helps slow down the build up of funk inside but it's always going to have stuff growing. In before someone links the thread about how nasty they can get.

Stop looking at it for a week.

If I could find it locally I'd use it more often. It seems much easier to store and much easier to mix than malt extract. Even when I add dry malt extract directly to my flask without any water around it makes a mess. I don't even have very humid air either and it jut likes to clump together. I...

You can change the settings for boiling water to only be 204, and equipment temperatures can be compensated for with a check box on the design or mash tab. This should help out a lot.

CO2 doesn't exist as pockets inside the wort immobile during fermentation. CO2 rises to the top and escapes which is what caused the overflow of wort. Keep it cool, keep your headspace in mind when you pitch yeast next time and keep this in mind when you want to brew a big beer.

It will be fine. Relax, don't worry and have a homebrew. You should invest in a hydrometer so you can check the gravity and know the starting and ending gravities. This will help you determine how fermentation is going as well as alcohol content.

Are you measuring with a hydrometer like the OP was 9 months ago? What was the temperature of fermentation when the outside temperatures were below 60? Did you do anything to warm up fermentation?

I run. I train a lot during the year. When I'm not training for races I want to brew and I try and schedule it into my weekends just like a 2-3 hour run. It's just a matter of finding what you want to do. I don't run on a treadmill but I don't watch a lot of tv on weekends until night. I run on...

The results are probably gone since this is almost 3 years old.

Your beer will clear while it carbonates if you leave it alone. Gravity works just fine and if you want you could add gelatin to primary or secondary when bottling.

Keg. Buy my beergun. Have perfectly bottled beer always. Seriously, legging vs bottling wouldn't fix an oxidation problem. They way you rack into a bottling bucket is the same way you'll rack to a keg. I'd say a muddy brown look was either not using gelatin, not waiting for everything to...

What's different than adding 1/4 of all your hops at the same times? Imagine you have 4 hops, 1 oz each. Pile the. Together then divide them into 4 mixed 1 oz additions. How is this different than adding 0.25 of each at the scheduled times? I wouldn't think there would be much of an advantage...

I wouldn't expect a carboy to crack at 20 degrees with sugar water in there. It might expand and come out the top depending how much headspace you have but not crack because of the cold. With that said I would be more concerned about infection from 100F down to colder temperatures personally but...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=419241&page=22 Search discovered this 22 page thread about it in the equipment section.

Bought this new when it first came out and I don't use it as much as I expected. It works perfect and I've never had problems with bottles after filling them. This works great for eliminating bottling bombs and freeing up a keg if you have something you want to save long term without tiring up a...

I've never done this however the Vitality starter was a thing Brulosopher researched and I know at least one guy in my brew club does it. I harvest from my starters which is the main reason I haven't done it. Waking the yeast up for 4-6 hours while brewing is probably going to help kick off...

I'm back and getting excited for my first batch. I ordered the Kombucha kit from Northern Brewer with a 10 or 20% off which matched shipping costs. It comes with an auto siphone and a glass fermentor so I'm excited about the new gear. It will create 1 gallon batches and if I'm to do this right...