Dycokac
Well-Known Member
So broke my 6.5 carboy last night. I knew better too which is sad i do partial boils so i took the 2.5 gallon brew water and put it in my carboy instead of my plastic ferment pail like usual and then put it in my bath tub with ice cold water (there's snow on the ground up here and it's about 25F outside so that water was probably around 40F. and it popped the bottom out of the carboy... yikes! Atleast it was only the brew water and not the wort so my Hefe is doing fine in a 5gal carboy right now (def leaving the blowoff for awhile).
BUT,I do have a question about hops, i buy the 1oz packets, the id carlson ones. and i split them in half this time, and happend to weigh them before i i used them and read 2 oz total... is that usual? they do say 1oz NET...
And I used leaf plugs for the first time last night, that was cool.
Also used a starter this time with yeast i washed from the last batch! guess i washed it right cause it did take off in the starter and after pitching about 10pm last night i woke to gurgling in the blow off bucket.
BUT,I do have a question about hops, i buy the 1oz packets, the id carlson ones. and i split them in half this time, and happend to weigh them before i i used them and read 2 oz total... is that usual? they do say 1oz NET...
And I used leaf plugs for the first time last night, that was cool.
Also used a starter this time with yeast i washed from the last batch! guess i washed it right cause it did take off in the starter and after pitching about 10pm last night i woke to gurgling in the blow off bucket.