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I just got a 14 gallon conical from SsBrewtech, and I've got a couple pretty basic questions. 1. How long do you wait to dump the trub? I'm assuming wait like an hour, dump, then pitch the yeast? 2. How long should I wait to pull the yeast catcher off the bottom? Should I wait until...

@Rockindaddy, yup. I had wanted to for a while, but I didn't have a great hookup in St. Louis. Now that I live in Colorado, I can get enough for a 5 gallon batch for less than $30. It's clearly not an every day beer, and I usually only drink two pints over the course of an evening (most...

Best way I've found is to put the adjunct in everclear to extract the "essence" and then add that to the beer at kegging. Works best with a heavier beer that's got a sweeter finish since the everclear will dry it out a little.

I personally don't care who brews my beer as long as it's good. The only exception is Stone. I bought a 6 pack of their beer a few years back, and the top of the necks broke when I was taking the caps off four of the beers. Not sure if it was the bottles or the glue holding the caps on, but...

I don't have much experience with extract (only did two batches with extract before moving to all grain), but I've heard people talk about struggling to get below 1.020 with extract brews. I've only used carbonation tablets once on a small batch of cider, but 7 per 22 oz bottle sounds like a...

The only time I dry hop more than 7 days is when I'm dry hopping in the keg, and even then, they sit at room temperature for 6 days, then I chill it and put it on tap so it just dry hops throughout the life of the beer.

Tally350z said it all. You need beergas to use a nitro faucet, plain and simple.

Nope, it's a MoreBeer sculpture. It's fine, but overall I'm not all that happy with it.

When you leave headspace, the CO2 comes out of solution which causes the beer to go flat. The more headspace, the quicker it goes flat.

Completely agree about the caps. One of my growlers is swing top, two of them have the plastic caps. That being said, if you're drinking it within a couple hours, I can't imagine that even the crappiest cap would leak enough for it to go flat. I've seen some people fill where they're not...

How long are you supposed to let it sit in the hot water? I just started using gelatin, and I pretty much add it to the 160º*water, give it a good whisk, then dump it in.

The only thing that bulk conditioning does vs bottle conditioning is ensure that the entire batch is exactly the same. Instead of adding the risk of moving it to yet another fermentation vessel, I'd just bottle it. I have several friends that age their beers this way. They always use the...

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How are you filling them? Just straight from the tap? All the way to the top leaving no headroom? I throw my growlers in the freezer for like 30 minutes, turn off the gas, vent the keg, then just barely give it a burst of gas (just enough to move the beer). If I'm not planning on drinking it...

I'm not saying it's actually okay, but I've done that numerous times, cleaned the tube, and then used it again. So far it hasn't been an issue for me.

I was brewing a 6 gallon Vienna lager to build up yeast for all my Oktoberfest beers and realized I have no pictures of myself brewing. Just for the hell of it, I captured a few shots.

Check out this thread. $30 upgrade that's totally worth it. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/speidel-fermentors-now-stainless-rotating-racking-arm-449546/

I learned that lesson the hard way my first time doing a barleywine. It was around 1.100, and I had it in my basement which was around 64º. I'm not sure how hot it actually got, but it was a fusel alcohol bomb. Now that beer, I could've drank in a frosty mug. Drinking it near freezing was...

Sorry, I wasn't saying that you're doing it wrong. I don't think Frostbrewer was saying that either. Just that since it really only needs to touch the surface, making that much Starsan solution is serious overkill. I mix up around 3 gallons at a time and use it for months. Of course, I check...

That is a ****load of starsan mixture ^^^ I just dump about a gallon or so in, shake it up with the lid on, let a little drain through the spigot, then dump the rest back into my starsan bucket.