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Im not sure why a zero headspace would matter unless your trying to store it long term due to oxygen (unless you prime with c02 of course). As for glass carboy just dont shock the glass too bad and I couldnt see it as a problem. Does anyone know if the better bottles would hold up to the heat...

Why not just put straight into a glass carboy or better bottle?

Leave your beer in the primary. Just relax and let the yeast and beer do its thing. If anything it will clean it up more.

Nice, I haven't picked any up yet because I haven't gone into the city but I will be there Saturday and plan on getting a few sixxers. Plan on going hit up the Nola Distillery and Abita Brewery with a few friends.

A fellow cajun! Good to see some Nola in that keezer, have you picked up any of their Brown Ale in a can? They just released them.

True, I would want the option to brew again if I wanted. Well think I will no chill in the BK and transfer to primary the next day.

So I was looking into the biab and no chill methods and see that people are transferring to plastic tubs for no chill. I was wondering if there are any issues doing it all in a single keggle. No transfers, no plastic containers. Now, the issue would be the opening of the keggle during...

IMO dont spend $100+ on a boil kettle. Watch craigslist for a local college town for spent kegs. Pick one up for $25-30 bucks and cut the top off. It will let you grow. Your best upgrade after the initial equipment for brew quality will be a fermentation fridge and for sanity sake kegging...

So a 2:1 is a good ratio to mix RO water with my tap water?

So I'd like to fix this problem before I waste another beer kit. Is the general consensus is that my water is too hard thus messing with the hops causing an astringent taste in my beer? With time could the astringency condition out? Whats the solution to those of you who have this problem...

Hmm yes it is definitely an astringent aftertaste. Im using my tap water which is hard water.

So this is my second brew. First was a hoppy american ale and second was a moose drool clone from AHS. I was completely sanitary, brew day went fine, as the fermentation did. I left it in the primary on the yeast cake for a month and then racked and bottled. I waited another month before trying...

I figured that's what it was. I was just interested and wanted to check it with the more experienced brewers. Thanks guys! :mug:

Now my beer has been in the primary for close to 3 weeks now and I should be bottling it this weekend. Well it hasn't bubbled in the airlock for 2 weeks and I moved it to a spot to bottle ahead of time to give it time for anything shaken up by the move to settle down again. Here's the weird...

Yeah I thought about this. Couldn't the PB cause an infection when I added it to the second carboy not boiling it in the wort?

Im going to be doing a Double Chocolate Stout from AHS soon but I want to try to split the batch and do 4 gallons regular and one gallon a Double Chocolate Peanutbutter Stout. Now Ive got the peanut butter de-oiled already and I would like to just do one boil and divide it after. Any easy way...

I'd be willing to join a HBT. I do folding occasionally, especially if I have to charge my controllers. Its for a really good cause. Its not like we're helping some people get rich.

I said this over in the Flogging Mollys thread before I even knew there was a Gogol thread but if you see them you HAVE to see them in a small venue. Theyre festival shows are nothing compared to the shows they put on in a more personal atmosphere.

I went see them when they came to the House of Blues in new orleans last year. They were really good and a high energy band. But the best band I've ever seen live would probably have to be Gogol Bordello at a SMALL venue. I saw them this year at Bonnaroo and they were'nt near as good but up...