Recent content by retread2

If you like your beers and you are winning medals in competition with them why change? If it ain't broke don't fix it!

I have a question: Since fermentation produces heat how are you going to keep your wort cool in an insulated fermenter?

Dumping the wort in thru a strainer will mix oxygen into the wort...which is a good thing before fermentation.

It makes good beer but takes a long time to clear.

Now that the smart a$$es have shown their ignorance read this: http://byo.com/stories/item/416-can-homebrewers-use-twist-off-bottles-for-their-beer

I cap twist off bottles with 2 antique bench cappers and have no problem with them...after all that's how the breweries cap them.

Well it could be 2005, or newer but DME keeps well. I found a can of LME about that age in my garage. It looked more like a tin football than a can. I didn't have the courage to open it, i donated it to the landfill.

That's not the production date, it's the copyright date for the label. The little c in a circle is a dead giveaway.

I cap some screw cap bottles with two old bench cappers with no problems.

Fermenting a 1 gallon recipe in a 5 gallon bucket is not a good idea, too much head space. for a 1 gallon recipe a 2 gallon bucket is better.

Sounds like you are reading your hydrometer wrong or it is bad.

It's Gilligan's island and the professor is still there. Notty for me.

My grandfather stored some of his homebrew under the bed. It was really interesting when they started blowing up in the middle of the night. He couldn't get out of bed, too much glass on the floor.

Waivers are almost worth the paper they are written on.

I have never heard of a 'food grade' trash can.