Recent content by Brewmetheus

To be honest airlocks, based on my research, are pointless if you don't have to worry about pest contaminants. Like something literally crawling in. Prior to this I brewed in buckets with a lid and no air lock. Positive pressure created inside is sufficient to keep O2 out, and if the lid isn't a...

Just started with 5 gal cornies. No room in my freezer/fermenter for spunding valves, but my LHBS just started carrying the shorter one's with the red rubber. Those might fit with spunding valves. What kind of head room do leave for primary fermentation under pressure? @FunkedOut Thanks for...

I think almost a galon of starsan got sucked up, as the bucket was 2 gal and about half full. It filled all the head space in the keg and I'd left about Gallons worth and the bucket was empty. I dumped just to free the keg up, as I only have so many, and didn't want to take the chance on...

I recently started fermenting in kegs, and did my first lager the other day. At the end of fermentation after the diacetyl rest, I set the temp to lager to hopeful get more yeast out of suspension before transferring to a lagering/serving keg. I did this with a blow off hose attached into a...

Hey I am thinking of brewing large 5 gallon batches of Kombucha in my brew buckets. Ideally I'll just drop it into my brew freezer with the other fermenting beers, but I typically only cover the buckets with a lid and no vapor lock. Is there chance of the Kombucha cross contaminating my beer...

Yep, can't disagree with RDWHAHB, but midwest totally misled me. I am kinda pissed about this because I thought it was something else for two brews! I haven't given priming sugar much thought before, being more preoccupied with mash schedules and hopping. I took the amount of sugar I was using...

Thanks. Put all of them in the fridge. Will be shmamered for the next little while to avoid further bombs

Well ****! I went with this. https://www.midwestsupplies.com/how-much-honey-in-beer

Hey guy's, I've bottled two ales with honey as the primer. The first batch I used too much honey, as I wasn't very precise with measuring, and made some bombs, although only two blew in the summer heat. This time I was very careful and used one cup exactly for 5 gal, yet it carbed in one day...

Ya should have done something like that. Duno what he did, hopefully not what your suggesting, but he's the type to get jealous of the accomplishments of others. I could be paranoid, but life's been full of people doing stuff like this and it's his MO. Could have been bleach maybe? Just have...

hehehe thanks. Honestly, it tasted a lot like hoegaarden from a dirty tap, which I hate regardless, dirty tap or no. So I think they beat me to the market some time ago. Originally the wort tasted of Grapefruit and citrus from some well applied Simcoe. Dumped it, as I bottle still, and only...

Single malt two row APA dry hopped during day five of fermentation. Seemed stall, then start smells like bread then turns sour, and tastes of glue after 12 days on the cake. Temp controlled at 18 degrees celsius. Should I dump? Tenth brew and never had anything like this. I think its...

Hey All, fifth brew and my first dry hop. I used a recipe from the Grainfather website called mister simcoe, it called for 150g of Simcoe at day five... My brew had a very thick Krausen and I just dumped them on top as the recipe wasn't explicit about it. Is this ok or should I have...

Ok they give everything in percentages. The rough total amount I need to replace three 1.5 kg cans of LME would 6 KG? Of which 4kg is Malted base barely, what ever that it (2-row Brewer's malt @chickypad ?), and 2kg pilsen, with a tad of Carapils® Malt say 0.12kg?

Sweet thanks guys. LME portion of the recipe is basically two cans CBW Golden light, and one CBW pilsen light. I will see if I can puzzle it out on the links you provided