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Thats a helpful video for sure, thanks! I primary in a plastic bucket, so I presume same technique but take great care in pouring off to leave the trub behind. I'll try this next weekend, thanks again.

I have and use the coopers kit as well. I use it in the basement. I am on my third brew in it, and in all cases the water that wasn't boiled as part of the preparation, was reverse osmosis filtered water. The first two batches have tasted really good to me! Definitely get some star san or...

I think that if you do it the way AluminumGerbil said that you should have no troubles with it being mixed well. Adding half then half later doesnt really seem to make sense. You're getting half of it mixed with half the beer, then dumping more in, then mixing the existing already-mixed...

I did one last Saturday, and as I recall after 3 or 4 hours it was puffed up very much. The whole pleat in the bottom was filled out as round as it could get. That was the first time I used one, and I must say it was TOUGH for me to locate and pop that inner bag. I had to trap it in a corner...

It's like tomato sauce in tupperware. It's a protien or enzyme that bonds with the plastic because it resembles something natural to it. So the color cant be "cleaned" off without scraping the surface off, and you dont want that! In tupperware, spray some PAM or rub olive oil in there before you...

By the way, the coopers canadian blonde ale is getting REALLY good and smooth after 13 days in the bottle now, just low alcohol since all I added was brew enhancer 1. (600g dex, 400g maltodex) (coopers brewing sugar is 800g dex, 200g maltodex by the way) The key is keeping fermentation...

It's not too much is it? I mean, the Coopers kits make 6 gallons instead of 5, and I got the contents from coopers own forum, so it should be correct. So really, all he's asking is if he could add 500g to it, and I think thats even recommended by coopers. "Coopers Light Dry Malt will improve...

Brew Enhancer 2 contains: 500g Dextrose 250g Maltodextrin 250g Light Dry Malt So, I think if it were me, I'd add all of both, hehe.

I tell ya one thing, Sam Adams labels come off in just a plain water soak for me. I'd used oxiclean on some one evening, and the next evening after having a couple beers, I placed them submerged in the container, forgetting to put in a bit of oxiclean. Well, after 2 hours they came right off...

Here's a simple tip. Use a steel spoon to stir the wort. If you do not, you are overlooking the effect of heat transfer. You know when you stir hot coffee or tea, the spoon comes out hot? Take advantage of that. Stir, set the spoon aside to cool. Repeat. edit: of course if you transfer to a...

Good call on waiting it out since it's not really slow, sounds perfectly normal. Nice krausen at 6 days sounds good to me! Sounds like the temps dropped and the yeast are working well.

My freezer has a few frozen pizza's in it, and the rest of the space is ice, and iced 1/2 gallon containers. It's 83 here in my living room right now at 10:30pm, and 64 in my swamp cooler.

I'm using a 6 or 7 dollar 30 gallon plastic tote. Works great.

I started at the beginning of july and my third batch is 4 days into it's primary. I have another ingredient kit and fermenter on the way, lol. By the way, I'm a lot like you because I would typically buy a 12 pack every other week or less often. This is just fun and way more convenient, since...

Maybe keep a couple of clean plastic bottles around. You can at least squeeze them to see if they're hardened up before you chill them. On my very first batch, I'd filled all the available bottles and had like 20 ounces of beer left! So I found an old mason-style jar with a plastic lid and...

She who hits you on the head with a frying pan causing stars and tweety birds to orbit your dazed head. swhyothwafpcsatbtoydh I also noticed that when I put some IO star in a spray bottle that it stained the bottle over a days time.

A hydrometer is what reveals the specific gravity of your wort. You take a small sample of the wort in the testing tube and float the hydrometer in it, then read the number on the side. It's truly the only way to know that fermentation is completely done. If using a carboy, I guess you need a...

Open, sprinkle, close. Just like making love. Ok that wasn't even funny. Maybe a little funny.

Mine is just a 30 gallon plastic tote and maybe 6 inches of water and a tshirt pulled over the fermenter. I rotate out frozen 1/2 gallon jugs. Keeping 2 in the freezer and 1 in the tub. I also toss in some regular ice and some big cubes I freeze in those pint sized plastic food containers. It...

Situate the siphon hose so it makes a nice swirl in the bottom of the bottling bucket. I did that for the first time 9 days ago, it went smoothly, and they're starting to carb up nicely (yes I've snuck a couple.. purely for testing).