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Simmertime Cream Ale

Nice. Here is mine.

. My Poor Mans Porter.

Getting ready for a porter. My own recipe round 2

Are you using the yeast that came with the kit? I've had two separate batches come back to life krausen and all after 2 weeks. I've found it has happened to others as well. May just be the yeast. After one week of no activity it came back to fermentation. Not moved once and temps around 68 to 70.

^ second to the yeast in different states. My class just gave us unfermented wort and we had to add our own yeast. But your beer would not taste so good like you mentioned right? Wouldn't it be way too sweet?

Poor Mans Porter

First brew i ever kegged! Amazing porter.

They mentioned it eats through the plastic leaving small dimples in the surface. They must be using a hell of a concentration ratio.

so I just read in another post that some say PBW not good for plastic equipment. Some have mentioned they have ruined a couple better bottles. I have a fast ferment (plastic) conical that I have been using PBW in for about 3 batches. Normally let it soak with all the parts (hoses, airlock, lid...

I think cleaning after each batch is a must. There is a space between cavity that I noticed always hold buildup of wort/trub. I didn't after my first batch when I did pull it out when I started my third batch there was noticeable mold on the Teflon tape. Luckily my beer came out fine.

Great thanks!

I filled my first keg a week ago. Haven't had a chance to fill my c02 tank since I bought the whole system used. I am using it as a fermentor and keggerator. I wanted to build a pipeline while the keg is being drank. So I purged the keg with the little charger c02 adapter, filled with a porter...

Awesome! Would you mind sharing the dimensions of the plastics?

I thought I would be fine. Just had to find some opinions to push me to do it. Thanks!