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If cash is tight and you can't get the thumb thing to work, you can buy a clip for your vinyl hose at lhbs for < $1.00. Put that at the low end of your tube, clamp it, and sanitize it. Then fill the tube with water as before... when you have the free end of the hose in your wort and the...

Brewing on Thursday, 5 gallons: 5.5lbs pale malt 2.0lbs flaked corn (finally found some... jeez) 1.5lbs minute rice 3oz. Crystal 80 (to bump the color juuuuuust a bit. Unless this sounds stupid) 1oz. Sterling 6.0% at 60min 0.5oz Sterling 6.0% at 15min Nottingham yeast Excited...

Totally agree with the OP. I was initially skeptical about having to fabricate a bunch of metal parts together to build a mash tun. I bought a 47qt picnic cooler and the braided stainless steel and it sat there for weeks. Then one day I decided to play around and learned that if I simply...

Any idea if sterling hops (6.0%) would turn out well in something like this?... recently, the wrong hops were purchased for me by accident. Been looking for a use... I have 2oz. I read online that the flavor is a cross between saaz and mt. hood which is right by what I've read, but the acid %...

So basically my beer making history is that I made 3 different 'Baron's Beer' kits that came with premade wort, like a wine kit kind of. Then I made a stout from extracts and steeped grains, and now my first all grain batch (pale ale) is in the secondary right now. The best stout I have ever...

Mine rolled off the counter and fell onto the lino floor the other day but survived :)

This is awesome and makes me feel like the few mistakes I have made on my first AG won't screw it up :) All I could add is that about 8 months ago I made a stout from extract, in my old rental apartment. I had only made kits with liquid wort to this point so hadn't had much experience. I...

Thanks, I'm always for a little insight. The reason I do it this way is because they are the instructions that came with my first beer kit. I just brewed my first AG batch so I may switch it up. It's been in the primary for 3 days.

What I have done for the 4 beers that I have bottled is to ferment for the first 3-6 days in a primary, then rack to a glass carboy and kick up some of the sediment. Then, when bottling time comes around, I rack back into a clean primary and leave the rest of the sediment, add priming sugar...

When I sanitize I use sodium metabisulphate. I have always just kept it in a gardening bottle that has a mist setting. Now when you make wine, the alcohol content is pretty high and it is difficult to spoil it after fermentation, or at least that's what I've read and I've made lots of wine and...

Just made a bit of a variation on this for my first AG beer. It took a lot longer than I thought, but it was fun. Also my initial gravity came in at 1.047, so a bit low... meh, never milled grains before. I drank some of the hydrometer jar and it tastes sweet and citrusy.

Thanks guys. I did some bending and messing around tonight. I am going to use it as an immersion chiller instead and I can do essentially the same thing without trying to hunt down food-grade silicone tubing and it will be much easier. Thanks for the advice :). Does anything need to be done...

Yeah probably. It is just a 30ft coiled tube I picked up from home depot. I ran boiling water out of the pot, through the bath (on a chair), and then into a primary fermenter (on the floor). My rationale of course was taking a 2 minute elevator ride versus spending half a day putting the...

I want to post a picture! My camera is busted and cell phone can't transfer files :( It is kind of a frankenstein chiller of my own. Since there is an ice machine in the basement of my building, I am just going to fill up a 20 gallon rubber maid container with ice and run the copper tubing...

Hmm. After the boil is finished I want to siphon the wort through my wort chiller... which is a coiled copper deal but will need tubing on each end of it. Or am I just totally lost :drunk:

Hey, I have searched around a bit but had a hard time finding anything really definitive. I started out making wine - lots and lots of wine - and migrated into making beer kits, then extract brew... and now am going to do my first all-grain beer on Sunday. My question is about the clear...

Hi, I have made extract beer before and am about to make my first all-grain beer. I have built a counter flow wort chiller and my question is, should I run anything (sanitizer, water, some other liquid) through the copper pipe before my wort? It is a brand new copper coil. I have read...

1st post. REALLY glad I found this thread - I have a brand new aluminum pot and was about to use it without boiling water in it and turning it black first. Seeing the color and smell of the water after I boiled it I think that it probably would have had a... bad effect on the beer. Thanks!