Recent content by hofmeister

Afternoon, Homebrew Forum! I have a stuck CO2 tank valve. The keg kicked yesterday, so I turned the regulator valve off and disconnected my gas line from the keg. I left the CO2 tank in the fridge. This morning I took the tank out of the fridge to make room for a lager, left it in the garage...

I have a question about the relationship between desired volumes of CO2 for a given style, the amount of priming sugar needed, and temperature (based on the nomograph in the Priming and Bottling chapter of Palmer's How to Brew, p.113). When calculating the amount of priming sugar for bottling...

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Good evening! Tomorrow's a big brew day (3 batches!), so I was going to make a yeast starter for a Scotch ale. Unfortunately, I grabbed the wrong Wyeast pack -- my Bohemian lager. I'm making just a 1-gallon test batch of pilsener, so I don't need to make a starter for that. Question 1: can I...

Greetings from Upstate NY! This is my first post to this site. (Actually, it's my first internet forum posting ever). Tomorrow's a big brew day, and I'll be having a go at my first pilsener as part of the fun. I'm running my water through a counter-top Brita filter in preparation. In addition to...