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Found myself a cheap little mini fridge on craigslist last weekend. It was still in the car when I got to work on Monday at the cabinet shop. The boss traded the full size shop fridge for it after I told him I was going to build a cabinet and move the guts!!! Its still at the shop for now...

*headdesk*

1. How long is "a few weeks" and 2. Sounds like a capping issue if some were fine and others were flat but tasted fine.

I recently made my first starter in the same type of jug your using. I decided to go with the sanitized aluminum foil instead of the airlock, worked just fine. I just kinda crimped it down over the mouth of the jug, not air tight of course, but for the short time the starter is going to be out...

You can get a ph test kit from anywhere that sells pool cleaning supplies. I'd mix it with a tiny bit of water just to make it take onto the litmis(sp) strip.

You want to mash at a temp that will convert the starches to fermentable sugars, the temps that this happens at are roughly 150 - 160. You can get very deep into the chemestry of this if you like, detailing the beta and alpha amylase (one is highly fermentable and the other less so) but a good...

With my bottled beers, letting the sediment into my glass has caused some off flavors and made me extra gassy, but thats about it. As with all things you won't know until you try it. If you don't taste any off flavors, drink it, thats a good half sip worth of your beer.

Brewing it now, as in it boils away on the stove as I type. Good to know there are people giving out reminders though.

Thanks, good thread and helped with some ideas.

Just about to start something like that, tomorrow actually. Thanks for the ideas.

Does anyone have any experience building a kegerator from scratch? I got a cheap little mini fridge and was thinking of building a cabinet and moving the compressor and coils and all the pieces from the fridge to the cabinet.

Just about to do my first AG, mostly for curiosity and control reasons. I know ill end up in the"beer brewer" category rather than AG or extract. Ya gatta do what's right for you to make the beer you want.

I have to give you a proper thanks for the idea, got a small basement, but a huge crawl space off of it, and a corner thats perfect to enclose into a fermentation chamber. I LOVE THESE FORUMS!!!!!!

I now realize this should really have been posted in the DIY forums, sorry.

I'm going to say yes, as my last brew was an IPA racked onto about 8lbs of oranges, cherries, mango and cranberries. It came out wonderfully weird. No oxidation problems from what I and others that have tried it have been able to detect.

I got my hands on a really cheap mini fridge, but its only big enough for one keg and that doesn't work for me. I don't want to waste it, and was thinking of just building a cabinet from scratch and moving the business parts onto said cabinet. Good thing I work in a cabinet shop. Does...

I've never had a problem just letting the whirlpool action from the hose curling around the bottom of the bucket. I only let mine cool in a shallow bath of cold water for the time it takes me to empty the no rinse sanitizer from the bottling bucket and open up the bucket the beer is in and get...

You would run the same risk of infection with your starter as a normal 5 gal batch to just let it cool as it wants. Cooling rapidly and pitching gives the yeast you want in there the best chance to become the dominant species in the wort.

Have yet to try it, but since the business end is dishwasher safe then you can soak it or dunk it in the boil. Im planning on using it with my ic to speed up cooling.

Totally stealing the stick blender idea!! that stick blender just keeps getting more and more useful!!