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May I ask your help identifying this coupler, towards finding the right hardware for it? It seems to be a D-system coupler with "wing" style handles, but it has a diamond T stamp on it (see DSCN0775), making me wonder if that is a brand or manufacturer. It fits my D-system keg valves pretty...

Equipment mistakes: 1. Mash tun/brew kettle/bottling bucket valve open while filling 2. Thermometer not calibrated 3. Hop boil-over Contamination mistakes: 1. Unsanitized addition/utensil/appendage introduced to cooled wort 2. Tap water introduced to wort while cooling in ice bath...

I have been brewing for about 16 months now, I consider myself an intermediate-advanced brewer. I've passed through the usual growth stages: beer kit-extract-partial-all grain. I've formulated my own recipes and tackled a few of the more challenging styles (lagers, high gravity, traditional...

May I ask, what is the equation to calculate vol CO2 from oz dextrose for gal. to be bottled, given temp?

That sentiment right there is why I have kept a detailed bench log of every single brew I have ever done. My first partial mash recipe I ever formulated was a high gravity 3-gallon spiced winter warmer. I ended up bottling 30 beers that I was extremely disappointed with. The worst part was that...

Last month I ordered the NB Surly Bender Partial Mash kit, went to my LHBS and bought 50% of each of the listed ingredients, and brewed a 7.5gal batch. When I racked it to secondary, I just added 12oz of cold-brewed Starbucks Komodo blend. I didn't bother pasteurizing as I started with a...

I hadn't considered bottling in beer bottles. Do you suppose crown caps or swing-tops would keep the mead/wine as well as a cork? I just took a gravity reading 10 days into fermentation (SG = 0.994) and fatbloke's predictions were spot on, about 11% ABV and it smells like cheap perfume. I...

I was following Miller's recipe, though with the small batch I probably could have reduced the pasteurization. I appreciate the nice detailed feedback from fatbloke, and I've been agitating the fermenter every day. The solids have mostly fallen back down to the bottom of the jar. I'm considering...

For my first excursion into mead-wines (pyments?) I read Joyce Miller's recipe from Mead Lover's Digest on http://www.gotmead.com/index.php?option=com_rapidrecipe&page=viewrecipe&recipe_id=107&Itemid=459 And used it as a guideline for the following experiment: ~4lbs clover honey ~3lbs green...

Thanks Budzu, that gives me the impression that a fair bit of trial-and-error is involved with a fresh batch and a new kegerator. So, start off at the light end (11-12 PSI) and slowly notch it up to preference? That sound smart?

I'm posting in the Beginners' forum instead of Bottling/Kegging because I get the impression that this is a newbie question, based on a cursory search there. I've had a look at the carbonation table stickies there, but there is a huge range of pressures for each beer style. I've got an 5...

A clever design, though I wonder what the scoring tip is made of and how quickly it will dull. I also foresee litigation in this person's future as people WILL skip "Step 4".

My last batch was also inconsistent. I boiled corn sugar into a simple syrup and cooled it before adding to my bottling bucket. I'm 99% certain I gave it a good stir before bottling, but so far I've had some well-carbed bottles and some utterly flat ones. One of the flat bottles was a...

Don't think the impatient suckers did. If they did it would have been a month or two, tops. Probably would have taken the edge off that hangover, but from what he said it was already deceptively smooth. He said the flavor didn't even hint that the stuff was more than 50% abv.

A colleague of mine, who is more experienced at homebrewing than I, gave me a lot of advice about cidering and freeze-distilling. He said that his group did it once, and it was very easy, just scrape the slush off the top every couple of days. This pulls out the water, leaving behind the...

I posted this question in another thread, but thought I might get a response here. Has anyone ever used Foxx Superflush Beer Tap & Line Cleaner? Does anyone know what's in it? There's no active ingredient list, and I can't find an MSDS sheet for it online. I'm mostly concerned with the...

I looked in the sticky and didn't see this one mentioned. I just bought a secondhand (and absolutely filthy) kegerator, pony keg included. So, on my last LHBS run I purchased a 32oz bottle of Superflush. The bottle has no info on the type of cleanser it is. I don't know if it's perchlorate...

Actually, I've read that covering hot wort causes condensation on the lid of your brew kettle, which contains fruity-smelling esters that fall back into your wort. I'm not a fan of banana-beer, so I leave my brew kettle uncovered in an ice bath, which cools in under 20 minutes. When I used to...

I use a case of 12 1 liter EZ-cap swingtops, which are awesome! Then, I bottle whatever's left in salvaged 22 oz crown-cap bottles I've bought and emptied, y'know... for research. I fill the 12 liters first and then use the 22's for whatever's left over, usually about six of them. I always...