Recent content by ryanmx48

The key to soaking tubing in a cleaner is to get it completely submerged. For example, in a kitchen sink place one end of the tubing into the liquid, place something on it to keep it submerged (like a glass, anything), now slowly submerge the rest of the line from the submerged end forward...

I dont like them either. Of the ones youve tried, are they all pasteurized. All the big commercial beers to me have an overbearing "sour" taste. It dominates the beer and its all I can taste. I can actually smell it too. Smells like a dirty bar (presumably because most bars spill quite a...

This week I learned that if you choose to secondary ferment a 5 gallon batch, it should take place in a 5 gallon carboy and nothing bigger.

Oh yeah, sorry man. I was in the same boat as you a couple months ago. I wanted to get into this cheaply. I did quite a bit of research on the brew kettle. I ended up deciding that I wanted to get the "best bang for the buck", stainless not aluminum, and just get one large enough now, so I...

I would call Midwest brewing and ask if you can get the Groupon starter deal. It's the perfect intro duction to brewing. $75 gets you everything you need to get started including a recipe kit. you also get $25 towards your next kit.

Biotech Process Supervisor. It's like large scale homebrewing.

Wow, I've been calibrating and using pH meters every day for 13 years and I think some of you understand how it works better than I do!!

Thank You for this! I've been keeping a journal of my brews and this was an unanswered question that I had.

OK, thanks guys. I'm going to look into the geletin finings. I "cold crashed" my second batch and that worked amazingly!

Hi, I've brewed 2 batches so far and I love this hobby. I can't believe how good the beer comes out! I was wondering if anybody has ever tried using something like cheese cloth or some other device to "lift" the yeast bed out of the fermenter. The idea would be to line the primary fermenter...

I'm a total rookie, but that's what I've done both times I've brewed. I thought that's what you're supposed to do!

great, thanks guys! Looking forward to this!

do you use star san to sanitize the bottles? If so, do you sanitize, not rinse and then put them in the freezer? Do the bottles ice up? I'm ready to go, just looking for the best sanitization process to use before immediately going to the freezer. Thanks

I've brewed 2 batches, both Midwest, and they both had FG's of 1020. I'm new, I figured this was normal.

One quick note. The instructions advise that you will "get more out of you hops" but not using the dry hop bag. I skipped the bag (my kit didn't come with one, it was supposed too though) and dryhopped in my glass carboy secondary, it really makes a mess of the beer. If you want nice clear...