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I imagine it could be primary conditioning time. The beers do ask for over 1/2 of corn sugar, one required a pound plus I throw in the bottling sugar as well.

My last two 5 gallon batches have been extract, higher gravity potions, also they were dry hopped. They were brewed per instruction and, chilled with immersion wort chiller, and put in a temperature controlled fermentation chest freezer for a few weeks before transferring to a keg. No secondary...

My bigger question is that is it necessary to dismantle and put back together or is my only side effect a slow pour?

So, I have had a kegerator set up dialed-in for a long time. Lately an older gentleness sold me a boat load of brewing equipment including 7 corny kegs, 8 carboys, supplies, a refrigerator with 4 perlick taps attacked already, chest freezer, temp control....you name it, I got it. Well, I was...

I usually get a real vigorous ferment and toss my dry hops in around 2.5 weeks as ferment is done. I used fresh dry yeast this time rather than liquid, and it fermented very well, not explosive, trub coming out the blow off kind, but really good and healthy yet steady. I tossed my dry hops in...

I crash at 34 degrees a few days. I'm also dry hopping pellets for a week before crashing. Thanks all, I think there wont be any concern. Thought id ask tho.

I'm racking a batch soon. I am going direct from primary to kegs, although instead of a 5 gallon, this time I am splitting it up in a 3 and 2 gallon for my buddy to take since he gifted me a burner..mine pooped out. I am curios if when I rack the second keg, and since I will be closer to the...

To hijack an old thread.....I am considering gelatin in primary (I don't secondary anymore, too much chance for adding O2 and beer loss). I am not concerned about clarity so much. Once it has been kegged and given a few weeks, the beer is clear as can be. I am more interested in reducing the...

Temperature Can always control those violent, volcano like fermentations. In the beginning I would cool down by putting carboy or plastic fermenter in one of those large red picnic pales with rope handle. Filled halfway w water and throw a towel over it (wet as well and the towel falling in to...

A little cleaning got it close to back to normal again. Thinking o will need to replace soon though.

I currently have a three keg set up in the garage. I have noticed that sometimes when I pour a beer, the CO2 wont kick in (the hissing sound) to equalize the psi in the keg, and I am wondering if I have a regulator that may need cleaning or replacing. Recently I've had beer come out from...

Can a manifold have an additional shut off valve added by removing the brass end cap (forgot name of it) and add another valve to the end of it??? just wondering... Dunno if the thread size is different and such, but it seems doable? Didn't expect this many kegs in the keezer :)

My buddy and I finished up a red ale last week, and I did not have the a fourth gas line. I have more kegs in keezer than I do gas lines. I have a 3 way manifold. I have kegged the red ale, purged it of O2, and pressurized the full keg leaving it in my keezer. I count only on the 'set and...

I am reviving an old thread but I have the same question. Seems that the pellet dry hops, even though they are in a paint strainer bag, still have a good amount of particles that come out the bag, it is almost powdery, or is there a better bag to use..? I ferment and cold crash in primary...

Finally decided I would try the gelatin fining on a single hop Columbus IPA... I don't know how you guys are, but although I use the 'set it and forget it' technique to carbonate, the Forget It part is still hard.. I kegged on Monday and on Wednesday I decided to see what kind of cloudy funk...

The bag itself or with the grains? Can't say much about the grains, not sure, but I once poured my wort into the carboy and when adding my bung (I think that's what it's call, don't use em anymore) it just wouldn't stay in so I pushed harder and it shot right in to the carboy. It was the...

Well, that's all in your perception of cold... Yours might be below 0 degrees.....mine is in the low 40's :)

Whether this has come up in prior posts or not, I'm not sure, but thought I would go ahead and share a little story. When I first started to brew, I lived in Livermore CA. Hot summers and cold winters. The house had a deep pool, 10' at least and even during summers it stayed really cold and it...

I've learned from all my years of pouring beer at beer gardens (and drinking way too many of them) to open that faucet all the way immediately. I'll pop off the faucet tonight n check for rough edges, and try the other one I have too, but am considering a tower w faucet. Enough of this baby...

I don't chill my glasses and that could be a factor... thing is that I like people to try my brew so I have moved to using the plastic transparent 6oz glasses., they are disposable... I am going to invest in some snifters but haven't found some 6-8oz ones for tasting.. I'll have to try the...