Recent content by johnnv

Orumphf, I am not a lawyer and not giving legal advice. I do buy and sell on Ebay all the time and other places on the web as well. So these shipping methods are becoming more prevalent. I think the sheer quantity of shipping traffic has caused carriers to cooperate and not be competition. USPS...

After reading some post you guys copied off the internet concerning rules regs and laws. The is a real paradox or quandary that many of you don't know about. USPS, many foreign postal system, ups, fedex, dhl and many others have partnered to form global shipping innovations and shipping...

Don't label the bottles other than a code if shipping more than one kind, email the recipient the code if they must know, call it inert lab samples. Don't put fragile, glass, handle with care or anything like that on the outside. That makes it a target for desk clerk and the warehouse little...

I looked at mrmalty calculator yesterday, never have seen it before. Another poster on here said that he uses that. It can't work in my opinion, at best you can use that calculator, pitch the described amount of yeast in a stater and wake it up for a few hours. What a waste of money. Mrmalty...

Wort chiller for sure. But do both, smash an old hard drive and get the Neodymium Iron Boron magnets out, find a plastic box for cheap or free and a 12V muffin fan for cheap or free and a 12v supply, look at old phone chargers, you need 12vdc out, amps not important, fan draws .2 amps maybe...

Your probably OK, CO2 is heavier than air, so you still have a CO2 blanket on top of the beer. Find the leak and re-presureize it ASAP.

Stir your starter very well on a stir plate, use 2 graduated cylinders or flask and keep pouring a little in each one, while swirling your stater, to keep the yeast in suspension, until you have an approximate equal amount in each container. You should be close enough. I am guessing your making...

Never make a starter over 1.040 sg, the yeast will stress out before it is pitched in the wort. There are many yeast pitching rate tables available on the web. You have no way of knowing what your starter really contains with out a microscope and a hemocytomer to count viable cells per liter...

Botigol, I all ways rinse my racking tubes after use, initially and clean them with starsan, I found a wall paper tray, from your home supplier to be conducive to cleaning any of the long skinny stuff, cheap and hold about 1 - 2 gallons of solution. Great for lab thermometers, hydrometers also.

Thanks passedpawn, good informative link. In fact those home brew guys got me going in the early days. I like the Starsan info, seems it works better than I thought, and I will check the PH from now on. So, moral of the story is, clean, clean again and make sure it's clean and sanitize right...

Thanks bitigol, nice to see some intelligence in the discussion. I think, perhaps a bacteria infection in Sumo's case would be a viable explanation. Yeast cells are killed easy enough, bacteria can hide, protect themselves with protective coverings and do this in microscopic places. These...

TNGABE, I call you out personally. I don't usually do this, I hate trolls, I am not one. Please, in a scientific way, even layman terms, explain to me why I am wrong! These bacteria are 10k times smaller than a yeast cell and can hide in every nook and cranny, scratch, blemish in anything and...

Unfortunately, there are way to many, wannabe rocket scientist, in these forums to get accurate information, Saison's are brewed with Brittanomyces, a totally different animal than most brew yeast. Also my guess is you bought a yeast starter for this from one of the big yeast suppliers. Not only...

Yes, I would never use the same equipment for both. I am not sure I want to make beers with bacteria in the same location. But, that being said, I would try soaking EVERY THING in a strong bleach solution, 10ppm should do. Then wash and rinse them thoroughly. Household bleach is 5% sodium...

People make hop rockets, bars have caught on to this also. It consist of a water filter canister, the one with the screw off bottom about 10 - 12"s tall, packed with whole leaf hops, and the beer is dispensed thru the hops. A simple screen filter in the filter housing should work fine. No sediment.