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Around here if you take your own bottles in you dump them in a huge bin, and there's no attendant right there. Breakage common. Even I don't want to hang into that bin, and I'm usually the guy in the group who will try the crazy thing.

So can this be rejuvenated? I racked it off the sliced oranges at day 17, and on day 30 racked onto the fruit / peppers. That was 3 days ago, and I have had to change the airlock twice since then - Seems to be waking up. Should I crash this / stop the yeast / resweeten? Is it just $hi# and I...

Yeah, I did buy the burner so I can do just the boiling / stinky part out in the garage (door up a bit and a fan going) because my wife can even smell my evil thoughts. Speaking of bottles, anyone had luck mooching empties from local pubberies? Gonna need a ####load soon.

Tell me if I'm right. Am I infected? I am brand new to brewing, haven't even bottled anything yet, much in the works. In primary: Irish Red Ale, American Cream Ale, California Common, White House Honey Ale and a Show Mead. In secondary: English Brown Ale and a Mixed Berry Serrano Mead...

Maybe I'll just need to sweeten on the back end. Plan is to do nothing until I do some more reading. Anybody got a source of info about the off-flavors?

It's a grommet you can get at any brew store for 40 or 50 cents.

Lalvin D-47. LHBS guy suggested it, and it seemed to be an upgrade of sorts at the time. Not so?

I found a reference on the beer side of the site to off flavors and their likely causes, e.g., "wet cardboard taste is almost certainly due to oxidation." Is anyone aware of a similar reference for meads or wines? My first JAOM + oranges was unpleasant when I racked the other day, but as...

That price is awesome! On the subject of the gallon jug method: I did not find a balloon that would fit a wide opening and not fatigue / eventually fail. My solution - to cut a grommet hole with an exacto in the cap and drop an airlock in. Working perfectly.

If I had -anything- in a bottle that didn't come from the beer store, waiting would be easier!

Thanx for the input. I popped the top and I'm at 1.021, so I covered it back up. Now I just have to be patient. That's the hardest part!

Wondering if this is normal activity or suspicious for some other gas producing organism. it's a 5 gallon batch with 15 lbs honey, 2 pkts of D-47 and energizer / nutrient to start. On day 4 added 1.5 tsp nutrient / energizer. Have not messed with it otherwise. Airlock popping every 4-5...

English brown ale 16 hrs after pitching. Looks like it is gonna do this for a while, so I cleaned up the airlock with StarSan and put it back on empty. That way it won't suck the sanitizer back in if I have to pull the airlock again. Home all day, so I'll be watching for it plugging up.

English brown ale 16 hrs after pitching. Looks like it is gonna do this for a while, so I cleaned up the airlock with StarSan and put it back on empty. That way it won't suck the sanitizer back in if I have to pull the airlock again. Home all day, so I'll be watching for it plugging up.

This is my very first batch. No- boil, Semi-sweet, made with D-47 and a sliced orange. Starting to clear nicely after a month. Note the cheap bastard setup. If you carefully cut the hole, a grommet fits in the cap, and with the bubbler this fermenter cost me about $2.50 including the...

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Started a (5 gal) batch today. Used two smack packs of Wyeast 2124, pitched at 69 degrees, 1.046. It's parked at room temp now and is starting to perk at 4 hours. Great. The question is this: The California Common can ferment at ale temps, but with this lager yeast does colder = better...

Dissolve first, eh? Cool. The guy at the LHBS says toss these in there, so I did. He may have assumed I'd know to do that. Not. I'll try that next time. Thanx!!

And when you feed it, do it in a sink or tub. Did this for the first time recently, and it generated a -LOT- of foam very quickly, and well, that area tug needed washing anyway.

Thanx all, and Fatbloke the topping off options are the answer to another of the many questions I have. Very cool. I'm not going to dump my very first batch. No way! It's just that I remembered someone specifying "lead free" was the thing to use. Anyway, ay my local grocer I found spring...