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Yes, I had just posted right before you did. I plan to DIY the glycol chiller should I do this. Didn't know there was a DIY counter pressure filler, for that cheap either! Interesting points. Still not sure. Everyone seems to say keg but my heart says meh.

I already had the items I needed in my cart for a DIY glycol chiller. My problems with the freezer are expansion possibilities and repairability. If I want to chill two 10 gallon batches, I would need two fridges, let alone adding a brite tank or anything else. With my DIY glycol chiller all I...

Hello, I'm about to pull the trigger on a Spike conical but I'm second guessing myself. I don't have the amount of drinkers in my household to justify kegging. I still plan on bottling for the foreseeable future. Are the benefits of spending $1,200 to ferment in a temp controlled conical worth...

Hello, I'm about to get a Spike Conical CF10 fermenter with their TC-100 kit. I'm going to DIY the glycol chiller as it seems relatively straightforward. The used AC units around me are... bad. The cheapest one I can find new is a GE 5000 BTU for $150. If I have to get that one, is that...

Another one I made yesterday, I think my best yet but it’s hard to judge. As for equipment, I just sold all my gear besides the guitars I’ve had forever, bongos and my recording gear (interface, speakers, mic, PC, etc.). I never knew of the synthesizer world, there’s so much gear, I needed to...

It's sitting in secondary right now. Will see how it changes over time but I highly doubt it will clear up. I'm going to taste a sample of it again in a few days and hope that the little sample I got was just filled with skunky dead yeast.

.! I agree, I'm pretty disappointed in myself for potentially messing up such a well documented and forgiving beer... I did a BIAB 100% identical to the 5.5 gallon batch. Every last thing listed was the same. The only difference was the first few minutes after putting the grain bag in, the...

The color looks amber inside the fermenting bucket, maybe I scooped up way too much yeast with my wine thief I used to test the FG. about to transfer to secondary

I have no way to describe my smell. I’d say it smells less fruity as it does some sort of “skunk“ or maybe even the cat pee aroma. Those are the two closest aroma profiles I’ve found when Googling but neither of those is precise either. It just smells odd. I’m about to transfer it to secondary...

As someone said on the first page of this thread, I think I screwed up. I tried doing BIAB with it, the beer is super hazy and has a strange smell to it. It's been in primary for 11 days. The FG is also high at around 1.014-1.016. Should I give it a swirl and see if the yeast finish up then...

I just checked on my first BIAB (Centennial Blonde) after two weeks in fermentation... something went wrong it seems. The entire beer is extremely hazy and it has an unidentifiable and also relatively unpleasant off-smell... just when I think everything went correctly there's of course...

Just saw this after making a music production post..

Anyone else into music production? I got a bit too obsessed with hardware synthesizers recently and sold everything, I'm going to buy more sometime soon but start slower and smarter. I just finished this track; keep in mind nothing I make is mixed/mastered properly. It's something I struggle...

Thanks everyone... live and learn. Just too bad the uninfected beer was so amazing!

I ordered cases of bottles from homebrew sites when I started, I’ve read those are likely recycled but still, they were soaked completely in Star San for 5+ minutes before drying on my also sanitized inverted rack.

No dry hops, I just dry hopped for the first time, a different pale ale in the fermentation bucket... The PA in question is the Great Lakes PA. I used two cases of beer bottles, one entire case had the issue, the other didn't, and they were both sanitized in exactly the same way. I have two...

No, the first one I opened before drinking the non-infected batch was chilled, every beer I opened from the infected batch once I got to it was chilled... that is until I poured out 10 of them in a row. Then I just dumped the entire rest of the warm case (probably 15 beers or so). I drank plenty...

I am pretty certain it was an infection. Here's what I believe happened : the first pale ale of the batch I opened was a gusher. It behaved the same as these recent ones and I was very worried the entire batch was infected. I dismissed it and decided to chill a bunch of them which turned out...

man, already an infection on my third batch! I cannot imagine any beer being this carbonated when other bottles had only a moderate head. However, I would not say there is any sort of film or layer, it goes from beer straight to bubbles when looking from underneath. I carbonated as I have for...

My third extract batch (pale ale), which started out absolutely phenomenal, has aged strangely. So this many weeks in, after I’ve drank plenty of them, the remaining ones behave strangely. They’re not gushers, but once I open them and pour, just a small amount will make half the glass foam...