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Unfortunately I don't have that capability

Why something so big? You cut a small piece out of it and attach to your siphon somehow?

Soak it in the food grade sanitizer available at lhbs ?

Most are floating on top right now but as soon as I touch the carboy they start to sink and then the wort is saturated with them from top to bottom.

What kind of filter?

I'm dry hopping for the first time and added three ounces of hops to the secondary after transferring the wort. My problem is that I thought the secondary was suppose to be a clearing stage but now I have hops floating everywhere and am scheduled to bottle in a couple days. How do you transfer...

At the advice of the guy at my lhbs I don't own anything to check gravity.

I guess that could be what's going on ,i just figured with the amount of fermentation time I allowed that it should be finished

It was suppose to be a holiday brew and it has apples and spices in it, it tastes ok to me but being that this is the first time I've ever brewed anything like this I've got nothing to compare it to

it was in primary for over 2 weeks and in secondary for a month so i'm pretty sure fermentation was finished

So I have a batch that has been very stubborn about being carbonated but now that it appears to have finally happened all the carbonation comes out right after opening the bottle or pouring it into the glass. When I pop the cap it comes bubbling up and over flows and if I pour it into a glass it...

how did this version turn out??? I'm surprised this little project hasn't been advanced any further.:mug:

wow this one has gotten my attention also !!! I've been browsing forums in search of an interesting holiday brew and believe I've found one!!!

Holy $h&* did this batch come out good !!! Patience Patience Patience is defintiely the key. I am so P!$$@d that I wasted at least a half case doing tests. It's my first batch , it took at least 3 weeks longer than expected. Carbonation was definitely the toughest period for me, the...

I'm sure you guys get sick of responding to questions like this but....Come monday morning the batch of beer that I started this thread about will be in bottles for 2 weeks, I decided to chill one and try it today and it is still completely flat.Shouldn't it have at least a little fizz by now ...