Recent content by schmitt777

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Well it depends on what you intend to do with this car…. if you want to use it to store beer it appears the back hatch is fine, however, if you need the heater for temp control…well your screwed !

I also use Oxyclean Versatile ( Green Lid is odor free ). I get it at my local walmart for $7 for 3 lbs.

Any tricks or suggestions on how to get the most beer out of your secondary and leave behind the hops, last time I dry hopped I left behind tool much beer using just my auto siphon :-(

It is batch to batch, I have not been checking FG since moving to glass primary and secondary, guess I need a beer thief. I've been going under the assumption that the fast vigorous fermentation in the first couple days and the extended time was getting a full fermentation. My hydrometer and...

I am having very intermittent issues with over carbonation, I'm not popping bottles or anything like that. It's just ruining otherwise good beer. I have had the issue with a kolsch, a cream ale, a honey pale ale, and now my oatmeal stout. These are all full boil 5 gal brews with smack...

I typically mix in the corn sugar with 2 cups of boiled water then cool. Run the beer into the bottle bucket on top of the sugar/water solution and give it one good mix before bottling. One other thought is that I have been using yeast smack packs and building a starter.

I'm having the opposite issue, I'm getting very random over carbonation. Doing 5 gal batches and using the 5 oz pack of corn sugar to prime in my bottle bucket. The only variable I see is the amount of star San foam left in my secondary when i transfer from primary as well as foam in the...

I have inadvertently scorched my new kettle :-(. PBW is not working on a couple quarter sized spots that I just can't seem to get clean even with a green scrubber and a lot of elbow grease. Any thoughts on cleaners to get this off the bottom of my brew kettle ? Bar keepers ? Just don't want...

I just put in my order. Thanks so much !

I have since replaced my auto siphon and replaced the plastic tubing as well as converted to a 6 gal glass carboy for primary and a 5 gal for secondary.

Just added a ball valve to my kettle and looking for a stainless pick up tube. Anyone have any recommendations Also need to find some hi temp hose to run from the kettle to a plate chiller. What do you use where do you get it?

I had a nasty "sour" issue. I switched from plastic to glass and replaced my auto siphon and tubes. I did a lot of research and once an infection gets in any of the little crevices on the plastic it is virtually impossible to get them out.

I have one very similar what do you use to clean it off. I think I may have ruined mine. I let it sit in a bucket over night with 1 cup bleach and it turned the bucket and water black with significant oxidation on the copper. I have scrubbed it and now boiling the chiller again Will...

Fathers day will be the completion of 1 year, and have brewed 12 5gal batches. It's been a great year!!!! And soooo much more to learn.