Recent content by Zonk007

What size diffusion stone are you using ? How have your results been?

I recently got my hands on some medical grade oxygen to oxygenate my wort. It came with a built in regulator that has from 1/2 to 25 lpm. I was just wondering how long and at what setting should I use to oxygenate 5 gallon batches.

Hope this question isn't too dumb... I was thinking of trying to carbonate my beer using by force carbing a keg. My issue is I love to give beer away and that means bottles. If I force carb the beer using a keg system can I then fill the bottles and cap and all will be good? Also if this works...

Ey all, had a question about my milk stout. I opened my first one of the batch today and it was super carbonated. This would be fine for an ipa but seems way to much for a stout. Will this calm down over time or an I pretty much stuck with this as the finished prouduct? It's been I. The bottle...

I ended up with 4.5 in the primary with the wheat and right around 5 with the brown ale. I don't have the OG with me but it think the FG of the wheat was1.007 and the brown ale was 1.012

No that's how much water we started with for the full boil

I did a full boil on both started with 6 gallons on the wheat and by the time we bottled ended up with 4... Did 6.5 gallons on the brown ale and ended with 5 after testing and racking I to the secondary ended up with a little more than 4

So I tried my first home brew yesterday, one is a wheat and the other a brown ale.. The has been bottling for around 3 weeks the brown ale around 2. Both were extract kits from NB. Overall they were good and tasted as they should, carbonation was a little light but not too bad however they both...

Thanks for the info

Will all the junk at the top eventually clear out?

So I am a week into fermentation on my first brew . I understand that it is ok to bottle after three consecutive days of the same hydrometer reading. My question is will all the foam and stuff on trub on top eventually fall to the bottom? Should I wait for that? Also is there benefits of...

So today is the day, after months of research today is my first brew day and I couldn't be more excited. I have some last minute questions though. I am using a 10 gallon kettle with a 1/2 inch valve at the bottom. I'm going to use a hop spider for the hops and then running the wort through a...

Thanks everyone!

So say you get the yeast and your at say 70b cells.. Would you do a yeast starter to bring it up? Would that bring up the count or would you need more yeast

Hey guys, I am getting ready to do my first extract, an American brown ale and I'm really searching through alot of info on different yeast strands. So I am wondering what is your favorite yeast and why and does anyone know of any good sites out there that could help.. Thanks also any...