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i had a few beers while i was brewing one day and as i was transfering from the BK to the carboy, i stumbled over my autosiphon and the whole BK slammed onto the kitchen linoleum. the next day i went and bought a turkey fryer to brew outside. i should mention my overall brew time has decreased...

time is different for the sort of beer your doing. I believe 'bigger' beers take longer til there ready, some stay in primary several months. where a hefe is designed to be consumed after only a matter of weeks.

will this be a 5 or 10 gallon recipe?

chilling the wort fast results in a better cold break. proteins coagulate and sink to the bottom so you get clearer beer. Theres a debate going on about people who chill and those who dont about flavor, but chilling allows you to pitch your yeast sooner, so infection doesnt set in.

thanks for the heads up, ill be looking into them!

i do AG on a stove top, and i had just finished boiling and cooling the wort, as i was transfering to my fermenter (a 5 gallon plastic bottle) when i turned around and snagged the siphon hose with my shoe and WHAM! the bottle comes crashing down on the floor, and the WHOLE thing ends up on my...

update: phazyme doesnt help with blow off, at least not with a hefeweizen. in the first 24 hours ive blown off 1.5 litres. FWIW, i took one gelcap, dissolved in boiling water and added to cooled wort. ill just order some fermcap from northern brewer.

this will be my first time using a product similar to fermcap, my LHBS doesnt carry fermcap so i figured this was suitable substitution. my thinking was if one cap is meant to treat GI gas, than one cap in the fermenter to keep blowoff to a minimum couldnt hurt. im brewnig a hefeweizen, so...

im getting all my gear ready to brew first thing tomorrow and i came across a bottle of 'phazyme', its only active ingredient is simethicone but the dosage on the bottle says 180mg! jeez! i was wondering how much (in mg) of simethicone i would need for a boil or adding to my fermenter? all i can...

agreed. those hops look bricked, which ive never seen before

i would suggest shipping them via ground through the mail.

wait, if you want to take hydrometer readings on commercial beers, wouldnt you have to have an OG first?

carb it and let it age in the keg. people use kegs as secondaries all the time. no worries

i know that the cartridges that are uses in pellet guns have oil in them tho

the tanks? no, there aluminum chrome alloy and there clean, its all about where you get your gas filled, if you got to an airgas facility and tell him what u want it for, theyll make sure you get food quality gas

yea fortunately it was done outside on the deck, oddly enough at that split second i was more concerned about getting liquid co2 in my regulator lol. i use 20 oz 'paintball' tanks from when i played alot, i use a kobalt co2 regulator.

so everything was going smoothly as i was racking from secondary to my keg which i had already backfilled with co2.. as i was pressurizing the keg and i had it laying on its side to maximize the surface area of beer to co2. everything had been prechilled, beer and the keg. well while i was...

the recipe doesnt specify what type of beer. i posted the entire recipe, i dont intend to filter

this is my second try at this recipe, last time i dropped my thermometer and shattered on the concrete floor of my garage so i messed up my mash temp. well this time i went got a digi thermometer and redid the recipe, i missed my post boil OG, coming in at 1.042, it should have been 1.047. my...

oh ok i guess thats just confusion on my part lol, thanks for your help. i wasnt really worried about this, but i was just confused as to what ive read vs what im seeing. you guys rock