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Yep, next time I'll shake up the wort, give it 10 mins to settle and then just pitch the sludge in - though the krausen over the bottom of the cool brewing cooler suggests the yeast is doing just fine.

Sorry to hear that - I've yet to get the courage up to do an expensive HG batch - I guess once I can happily get from brew to bottle to drinking without thinking I've screwed up at some point I might try a stronger ale.

It is quite hypnotic - I just need to remember that if I stare at it all day I'm going to skunk the poor stuff.

That was my plan this time so went for glass so I could see when the ferment was over and the beer cleared up. However, this morning the krausen had escaped so I'll either go back to a bucket next time or get a blowoff tube.

Just thought I'd share my minor panic... I'm on my 3rd brew - simple 5G brown ale extract - and decided to skip my usual primary bucket then secondary carboy and just use a carboy for a few weeks before bottling. So I've gone from opaque plastic bucket were I just have to wait to a big clear...

Thanks m00ps and WrQth - so the trick is to keep everything else up to snuff and the hops will take care of themselves. Sailingeric - thanks for your kind offer, but I think the USPS bans shipping biohazard so I'll just need to sit in the basement and test each bottle individually over the...

I have a newbie question and I'm sorry if this has been covered elsewhere as I didn't find anything with a search... Everything I've read on the forum and online (I read John Palmer about 3 times before I even bought a kit) has said that sanitising everything that will touch the wort is key...

Thank you all for taking the time to post on this, I really appreciate the helping hands. It's been a week since brew day so I'll be moving it to the secondary soon - which frees up the Primary to play again. Based on the feedback I'm going to relax a little about letting more of the cold...

+1 Can't speak on a metal or other tank, but our tank is cement and has been going strong for many years.

I'm on a septic with SWMBO and 3 daughters. Paper and stuff has been fine for us (though when we had it emptied we used to get told it was 'paper heavy' thanks to one of my younger kids habit of using waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much paper.) The first thing is the design of the system; the specs are...

I'm only on my second brew (both 5 gallon extract and specialty grain beers with pellet hops) with ice bath to cool. When it comes time to siphon it to the fermenter all is fine until I get to the last few inches when the crud from the boil starts to show. My plan this time was to whirlpool...

Looking at the Ebay link got me thinking that maybe you could just sell them to someone who really wants the SN logo and hopefully make enough cash to buy some plain ones?

Actually, not that crazy. Astronomers use the Julian Day Number and define it as the number of days starting from noon Greenwich Mean Time on January 1, 4713 BC. It gets around trying to work out times between events given the multiple changes to calendars over the past few millennia. If you...