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Step 1: Find Hydrometer Step 2: Throw Hydrometer in the trash All those things do is make you worry.

How long can I leave beer in a secondary fermenter? It's my understanding that it can stay in there for months and be OK. Truth?

You don't need to do anything different. A kit is for 5 gallons whether all 5 are boiled or whether you're diluting it later in the carboy. Doesn't matter. FYI, I usually start with 6.5 gal to account for evaporation during boil as well as transfer loss between brew pot and primary, then...

Step 1: grab hydrometer Step 2: Throw hydrometer in trash All those things do is make you worry. Wait 1 week and move from Primary to secondary, wait 2 more weeks and move from secondary to bottles or a keg.

I've only been brewing with Kegs for a little over a year, but I have never disassembled one to clean it. When I blow a keg, I... 1) Rinse it out thouroughly 2) run hot water through it to purge any remaining beer in the keg 3) fill with PBW and sit for 20-30 minutes 4) run PBW through...

Got 'em on. Thanks for the tips fellas. :mug:

I can't get these friggin things into the tubing. Ordered the barb nuts from Northern brewer and it said they should fit either 3/16 or 1/4" tubing, but the damn things won't go in! :mad:

I do 30 psi for 10 minutes, rocking it vigorously back and forth in my lap.

I just refilled my 5lb at lunch and it cost me $8.58. You got hosed.

You guys who refuse to drink before noon must be a blast to tailgate with for Football games

I just made up a kit that I had left upstairs in a closet for about 7 months. I was wondering about the pellet hops too. Beer will be ready in a couple weeks, I'll let you know how it goes...

Couldn't you just use carboys for ageing?

If you added your yeast when your wort was 94 degrees you're :cross:

5 gal carboys are really for secondary, as others have said get a 6.5 gal carboy or a bucket fermenter for Primary. As a point of reference, I do full wort boils and I start with 6.5 gallons in the brew pot to yield 5 gallons into my primary when I rack it. I usually lose a gallon in the...

Midwest is where I got my kit from, though I did buys some stuff through Northern Brewer. NB seems to ship faster than does Midwest.

After you guys fill the carboys all the way up with water/cleaner how do you guys dump it out? For instance, I usually clean mine in my utility sink the the basement. I just don't feel confident in lifting a slippery carboy full of 5-6 gallons of water and trying to dump it 3 feet off the floor...

I've been using plastic buckets to ferment because I'm terrified of needing to move this filled heavy carboy around when I'm cleaning/sanitizing. My bucket method was to fill all the way to the top with water/cleaner, scrub it out, dump it, rinse, then fill with water/sanitizer and...

Refrigerating will stop the yeast from consuming the priming sugar and thus stop CO2 production. The bottles will get very firm and that's a good thing. The bottles pressurize and any new CO2 created then dissolves in the beer creating carbonation. IMO, one week is plenty long enough for...

Do these need to be sanitized? The line from the CO2 tank to the keg carrying the gas, and the line from the keg to the tap carryng the beer?

I use sanitized water, from the same batch I sanitize all my equipment in. Fill it to halfway up each chamber of the airlock. (There should be a line on there)