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I brewed thursday night, aerated my wort nicely (stone) and pitched a packet of safale 05 directly on top of the foam. My fermenter is a blichmann conical and has an excellent tight seal that is almost impossible to screw up. No bubbles. I've taken refractometer measurements each day and the SG...

yes I have two pots. as I was sitting there staring at my pot of sparge water I was wondering about doing this. if I ever do partial mash again I'll probably try this. oh I forgot to mention a few other fun facts about my disaster brew night: 8. had oats in a seperate bag and forgot to put...

building my all-grain setup this weekend which despite being more complicated I think will be easier than the partial mash if you're doing it by yourself. at least with all these mistakes I have some assurance that I won't repeat them. If I have this many mistakes for my next few batches I'll be...

Upgraded to my first partial-mash brew and first full-volume brew last night. The only thing that didn't go wrong is that I think I may actually have produced viable wort at the end of the day. 1. Trying to assemble my new expensive blichmann brew kettle I destroyed the $70 built-in thermometer...

disregard. looks like I was unscrewing the wrong thing. seems like it came with another nut and washer that I temporarily lost. thats what I get for unpacking this thing a month and a half before using it.

I'm trying to get a brew going tonight and use my new Blichmann Boilermaker brewkettle and you are supposed to disassemble the thermometer and screw one piece inside and one piece outside. The problem is that when I unscrewed the two nuts the inner piece doesn't seem to come undone any way. How...

Just to finish this thread off, I let it sit in the keg now for 24 hours and the off flavors have subsided. I guess that undesolved co2 was the culprit. funny thing is that I can still taste the flavors that made it acrid but they just aren't over-accentuated now and the beer comes together nice...

yeah I can appreciate multiple primaries, but I also love the convenience of the conicals. so I just ordered my second. it gets pricey but its still peanuts compared to what I've spent on other hobbies. I should mention that I don't have a spouse.

ah, co2 bite would make sense, I quick carb'ed it with agitation at 30psi for a few minutes and its only been in the kegerator for about 3 hours. I'll see if it gets better but its not bad enough to not drink now at least, and I'm thirsty. I had to get it off the primary because I had another...

I must admit to a pure idiot moment with this batch where I had the wort transferred to the fermenter and saw the caked up hop sludge and said to myself "hey i bet this good stuff should go in the fermenter" and I manually chucked it in. A strainer wouldn't have helped my stupidity with this...

it was a brewers best kit 3.3 light lme 2.0 gold dme 8oz. crystal 60 2oz. bittering hops (i don't remember which, i think it was fuggles) 2oz. flavoring hops 1oz. aromatic hops yeast was a packet of nottingham i think I did primary for one week and it has been in secondary for...

For my first brew after a 6 year hiatus I decided to go with an easy kit for an english pale ale. I made the mistake of dumping the entire contents of the brew kettle, hop goop and all, into the fermenter. I just kegged and poured my first just a little while ago and its drinkable but I'm...

I've used both and I didn't find carboy's to be difficult to clean at all. I think you should at least try a carboy primary at some point early on in your brewing because its pretty interesting to actually see the yeast work (though still keep it out of the light).

tiger beer is still a much better option than many other non-exported beers in south east asia, though it normally costs more in the bars. speaking of bad beers, Gary from homebrew TV just nearly gagged drinking Orange Blossom beer from Buckbean Brewery in his latest episode (#28).

even if you would try propane in a house (3000 sq/ft ish?) I am definitely not going to try it in my 600 sq/ft apartment. in addition to violating lease terms I don't want my first brewing-related award to be a darwin award.

thats the whole issue. If I wasn't in an apartment I would have gone with some propane contraption and been done with it. (actually if i had my own house in never would have had an electric range to begin with). Even when you've got plenty of money to spend though, nobody seems to sell the stuff...

dang, sucks to hear that butane burners aren't that powerful. I think I'll look into heat sticks as I already have a nice blichmann 10 gallon brew kettle I'd like to get a chance to use instead of splitting the batch. I'm sure this kind of thing comes up a lot, I haven't seen it in a faq...

I live in an apartment and am looking to start doing full 5.5 gallon boils but I don't trust my underpowered electric stove to handle the job (it had a pretty hard time getting 3 gallons going) though I have not yet tested it. Does anybody else have this problem? my I was considering buying a...

Maybe try to get them to brew a Kolsch. Not as technologically advanced and they may enjoy the end product just as much.

Thanks! How long did it take to arrive from the time you ordered it? I have to plan my shipping somewhat carefully.