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After brewing last Sunday and a lag time of about 7 hours I ended up with a vigorous ferment and a blow off! After I cleaned that up and put a new airlock in I was back in action bubbling away at one or two bubbles per second. Out of my three batches this has been the most vigorous. My others...

I just put 2.5 gals of mixed water and star san (bubbled) in my "clean" carboy and swirl it, turn it upside down, swirl it again, make sure the whole inside gets wet then dump the star san into an empty bucket and throw everything else needing sanitizing in there. I don't shake, I just make...

Thanks kornman! Tommy

I know that Star San, once mixed, can be stored to use again at a later date. I was wondering if there were any storage particulars like temperature etc. I had some blow off the other day and quickly mixed up a couple of gallons of star san to sanitize a new airlock. In four more days...

The lid should be on tight from the moment you pitch your yeast and close up the bucket. An airlock should be used to let air escape. You shouldn't stir it either, it needs to be left alone to do it's thing. The foam (krausen) "is" the beer (wort) doing it's thing. That needs to form as the...

Then again, on the other hand I used a smack pack the other day and had bubbling within 7 hours. When I came home from work the next day I had brew coming out of the airlock and had to change it. This was with 5 gals in a 6.5 gal carboy. That's a lot of airspace and I still had blowoff. Now...

I thought about doing that myself but I was wondering about sanitization. I figured I'd be putting water into unsanitized bottles..........if that matters:confused: I've been using bottled spring water at 75-85 cents per gallon. Tommy

If I can complain then I should be able to compliment also. To their credit, when I called them today they said they would send out the missing issue to me. They also agreed that their web page is a month behind. Tommy

I've had nothing but problems with BYO mag. I sent for a subscription awhile back and what they do is send one out free (so they say) and you can cancel if you don't want to subscribe. So I thought (silly me) that I would get an issue, check it out then recieve a bill of some sort with a...

Well, it took about 7 hours lag time to get my first bubble. That was at around 10:25 last night. This morning it's bubbling away. I want to say a bubble per second but I think it's even faster than that, maybe 2 bubbles. It looks like 2.5 to 3 inch krausen. Time will tell if I screwed up on...

I ended up using 2 gals of water in a 20qt kettle. It was thick! My OG was 1.062. Tommy

What does that mean? Water to the kettle? Water to the top off? It doesn't matter at this point, as I stated in my post I only had a couple of hrs till brew time. I got no response so I went ahead. I added more water to my kettle and upped it to 2 gals. This is my third batch and I have to say...

Well, the day has arrived. I'll be brewing in a couple of hours but something just struck me. The recipe above is from my LHBS. It calls for 1.5 gal of water and I think all of their recipes may be the same. I know the last 2 that I did were. Does this seem low? I thought my last two brews...

OK ...don't let me have to go searching:D It was here on these forums that I learned about the 150 to 170 range for steeping and it was 170 that was the limit before getting Tannins released. Then that is what led me to (again pointed there from these forums) to Palmer's...

Is there something different about chocolate malt? I thought steeping was done up to, but not higher than 170 degrees. Whats with the chocolate malt and the "below 160 deg? Now I'm curious because I'm doing an Oatmeal stout this weekend and it contains chocolate malt. (150-170 deg) Tommy

Here is my next batch due to brew this Sunday. It's an oatmeal stout recipe from my LHBS. I'll be working with them when I pick up the kit to adjust it for a higher ABV. 7 lb. John Bull Amber Malt Extract 1 lb. M & F Amber Dry Malt ½ lb. M & F Roasted Barley Malt 675° L ½ lb. M & F Black...

I've only brewed two batches so far but I can say this. Even though three weeks is recommended for bottle conditioning, and my LHBS as well as a few books and articles/recipes say 10 days, I've seen a dramatic difference after 4 weeks and even better at 5. My first beer was poured out after...

you see.....that's the kind of easy stuff I like!!!!!:D Tommy

I was wondering about the new issue. My LHBS has it for 2 weeks already but I haven't recieved mine yet. The website for BYO still shows last months as the "current issue":confused: Tommy

That was my point in my original post. Palmer says to just add extra water to the kettle. I thought, like any other recipe, you would have to adjust across the board and readjust the whole recipe. It seems that's what you're saying also. So adding extra water to the fermenter or adding it to...