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Greetings. I am curious if my procedure is best practice, but I have kept a mixture of Star San sanitizer solution in my BetterBottle for a while now (several months?). I've always felt keeping the empty bottle filled with sanitizer would reduce risk of sanitation errors when I got to use...

Does anyone else experience bubbles when using this? I like it a lot, but am wondering if I am oxygenating anything (working on some meads at the moment. I fear the hose you suck on to start the siphon is still "vacuuming" in some air, even if clamped, when water is running from the first...

... So, since no one has told me not to, I'm going to rack into my sanitized primary, be liberal in leaving any "filmy" cider, thoroughly clean and sanitize this carboy, then rack cider back into it and blend with 1 to 1.5gal of store bought cider, (since it's that time of year here in New...

I've read a bunch if posts about white film, and think I have the same issue.. I just racked a batch of cider to secondary a few days ago, and just noticed this now.. I bought fresh-pressed cider from an orchard, used CY17 yeast and some nutrient. No campden tablets. Primary went well for 3...

Thanks for passing along this link, I'll look into this further.. I guess what is still confusing to me, if the thermocouple is to keep the gas valve open, in the presence of the flame, what are the risks in use this burner with it bypassed/broken? I still don't understand what troubles, or...

OK. Here's what I got... Pic1: Just the regular setup, tank attached to burner. Pic2: This is the red knob I am talking about. Plastic. Hold it down, and it doesn't click, like your propane grill, but you can hear the stream of gas go through. As mentioned, this worked fine (without...

But whether the red button is depressed or not, the flow of gas is the same, as defined by the valve opening on the propane and the regulator setting, correct? I can tape, tie, or prop the red button in the depressed position, but I fear if when depressed, the gas flow increases, I'll burn...

I am not sure. That is a possibility I suppose. It was more of a guess what it's used for, so maybe I interpreted that backwards (instead of a safety feature to turn it off due to overheating, a feature to confirm feeding gas in the presence of flame).. Either way, I am pretty sure this isn't...

I bought a used propane/turkey burner. I believe it is a Blichmann, not sure of the model. When I went to pick it up, the seller hooked the burner up, and all worked fine. I set it up for my first brew day last week. Everything worked perfectly while heating strike water for mashing. After...

Cool, thanks for the link, I'll check it out.. Also, I wasn't really suggesting "charging" a glass carboy like how you were suggesting doing it with a plastic bottle, I was just thinking, why not fill (or purge, actually) the carboy with a little CO2, then fill the carboy with beer from the...

Well, this is some excellent moose drool, so it won't be given away. I should just suck it up and drink it, I know... May be for future reference, I'll save the last bottle or two, and try to inject just the smallest amount of liquid sugar solution, and see what happens... I do agree with the...

@Einherjar: Yea, I hear you. It sucks making mistakes... Especially $80-$100 ones.. @AnOldUR: Good idea, I've never seen this done before. Is there a link floating around with more info? Or pics? ... That got me thinking. If I could get CO2 from my tank into a sanitized growler, fill with...

What's up y'all.. Have a problem, and debating a few options here... So I brewed this recipe 11 months ago. This stuff is great, 9-10%, roasty, sweet, malty, pure moose drool (in a good way). Its excellent. Anyways, I bottled it in Feb (~7 months ago!), and am at a crossroads here. As time...

Greetings, I read this full thread back in October (almost 6 months from the time of writing), and followed everything to a T. Primary, then secondary in a Corney Key (which has been working well, as a new fermentation technique). Bottled 6 weeks ago. Fully intend on letting it sit for another...

16 days kettle to keg. Tastes great. Thanks for the recipe! Hope you don't mind the name change, only had so much room, (and writing with chalk suuucks…)

I've read this entire thread, glad to see such positive feedback from many brewers. I am very anxious to give this one a try, and have good reason to occupy an empty fermenter for 8-12 months.... I haven't gone back to find exactly where the discrepancy lies, forgive me if this is an error...

I am less concerned about dying though, and am slowly growing confidence this is somehow the yeast all balled up?

yea, the disco ball is pimp. marinates my brews with soul and funk.

I did soak the 22oz bottles in starsan for multiple days, and was very liberal about leaving some of the foam in the bottle (as I couldn't shake it all out)... Perhaps that is what did it. This pic is of a pull from the keg, I have yet to open the bottles. But it is still very strange. I saw...

... naw, I am just easily distracted....