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Your talking about strike temperature I suppose. It's the thermal delta the mash water? Step 1 in my kit says be sure to calculate the correct strike water temperature. Instruction is to hold the mash at 150F for 60min and to sparge 170F with enough to bring to 6.5G. Boil, add bittering hops at...

yeah, they milled it for me, as I have no milling tool. My LHBS included a free kit with the brewzilla. It all looks easy. I hear the HLT doesn't actually need to be up to mash out temp for sparge, but will just elongate your boil time if it is not. Is this true? I've been holding off on that...

So I dove in with both feet. I've got a kegerator and a keg ready at the bit. Its currently holding a gallon of nice cider/dry apple wine I made - its actually quite good!. Then I have an all grain kit and a Brand new brewzilla 35L still in the box. I've never done grain. Period. I only have...

Ok, the worst part is I dropped fermentation lock in when I had the lid off. The lock and water both went in! Whoops. If this batch makes it without contamination, it will be a miracle brew. LOL

Well, its still a hair sweet. SG is at ~1.014 - so not done. I found the issue. Plastic lid cracked at the bung hole. ... and I've been introduced to secondary fermentation - into the carboy it went. Do I have to watch for light exposure from household lighting?

Using an extract kit, calls for 1KG dextrose in addition to the LME. <- instruction link My concern is the Co2 production just hard stopped without slowdown overnight, whereas the previous days all had 5-8 seconds between "airlock burps". I think I had it running more or less consistently at...

I was on day three without much activity in mine. So I said to heck with it and poured in the yeast from the bottom of a bottle of freshly conditioned and drank bottle of of beer. Boom! - ginger bug hybrid. It made excellent ginger beer - the bottles being the primary fermentation vessels.

They were actually really clean and I was de-labelling for consistency with the rest of my bottles. I also put a screw in the end that's held by the chuck so it can get a good grip on it. I also thought about running small zip ties through the holes. *shrug* That theoretically should get the...

So I figured out my bottle cleaning issue. Some in this thread were a bit awestruck about how hard some of us were working at cleaning our bottles. I was able to make quick work of it using a PEX Flexi Riser, drilled through and some strips of scotch bright pulled through. It makes an...

I inspect the bottom by holding the opening up to a bright light. Hot oxiclean overnight soaks vigorous shaking does not get the scum off the bottom of the 2nd hand Grolsch I've been collecting. Throw them out? No way, I'm paying $1.50 each used. $4 ea new at the LHBS. Besides, wouldn't you...

Praxair was ~40 CAD for 5lb swap here in Ontario. That's for my aquarium so it lasts nearly a year. In that way I don't really care as much given the bottle longevity. But, everything is more expensive in Canada, even when the dollar is at par. I've not started kegging and reading about the...

Pressure washer? :yes:

I'm just starting out - first batch looks like its done primary fermentation. For bottles I picked up a bunch of used Grolsch swing tops and they have some serious mould crud. The production hitch right now is getting the bottles clean. I oxy soaked overnight and still have mould presence on a...

I ended up just starting a fresh Coopers Dark ale Sunday night. She gave a great Krausen in less than 12hrs. 1.054 OG. Bubbling away nicely now, I've managed to nail an even 20-21C. My basement near the corner is 16C right now and adding a heating belt just at the base of the pail does it...

That sounds correct. Dry Malt Extract. I'll see if I can't find some time to check out the shop(s) today. I do prefer to support local rather than go online and find stuff. Though, I do have amazon prime since they dropped the yearly subscription requirement. However I'm in Canada and I won't...

I’ve seen dry malt extracts at the local wine shop... good owners... but primary focus is on wine. Closest beer brew shop is a 40min drive. They have light, medium and dark extract baggies. I’ll toss the can... or better yet start a couple batches. Not sure where to start with the dry malt...

Yikes. I found a carboy bomb thread on the forum here. Maybe a bucket is better. I have a lid and can get a bung to fit tomorrow! if I blew up a carboy... if it didn’t kill me, my wife would. She hates the smell of beer. Makes her sick to smell it.

Blowoff is just a tube from the top of the airlock?

I tried years ago, but let's begin with a clean slate. :) Okay, I couple questions. I've got a couple of nice 23L carboy (I think - will have to measure). Can I use the carboy as the primary without overflow? Maybe put it in a pan just in case? The kit calls for 23L of total volume. Here is...