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Has any one tried to keg and force carb any of the Island Mist wines ? I have made several of these and all were good, just wondered what they would be like carbinated?

I went for the 26 gallon pot. I hope it isn't too much over kill. Currantly doing 5 gallon batches but want to start doing 10 and was worrying about boil over in a 15 gal. kettle. wouul I still be able to do 5 gallons in this big kettle or is it too big?

What are you using to calculate your O.G. ? you might want to bump up the efficincy setting to beter hit your expected O.G.

How many 5 gallon kegs should I get out of a 10 lb tank. I only got 5 kegs and its out. I just turned the pressure way down a few days ago because my kegs were a little over carbed, would the lack of pressuure at the regulator cause the kegs to leak?

I am new to kegging and I have a beer that tasted really good but then the cabination got to high ( my falt) has a real bite to it now. How do I adjust the carb level? Just let the pressure off for a few days or what?

I Just took mine apart and the tube does seem too long i had a hard time getting it to go back in as it was hitting the bottom. Hard to see with beer in there. Once I got it in I had a hard time getting the post back on. got beer out but when I took the tap off I had beer spraying all over as...

after checking again , now I don't get anything out even at 35 psi.other than a trickle that stops

I am new to kegging ( only 2 batches so far) I just kegged an American wheat yesterday and left it @ 30 lbs over night. Today I purged tank then raised pressure to 15 lbs just to get a sample and to maybe clear some settled yeast. It kind of just sputtered and got some beer out then stopped than...

I brew 5 1/2 gallon batches so I can fill as full as needed and leave the trub.

I am getting ready to keg for the first time and am wondering how full do you fill the kegs? right to the top ar leave some head room?

I do add water that is higher than my mash temp. I use brewsmith and add the the water acording to the program. It does tell me to preheat the mash tun first.

so far I have been using hot water 190 degrees to preheat my mash tun then I dump this water and either add my grain then water or water then grain. I havent noticed any real differance in my beer so far but was wondering what the preferred methode is?

Wich way is better? To add the hot water to the grain or the grain to the hot water and what differance does it make?

I am having trouble getting this beer to carbonate. It was in basement for 4 weeks in bottle at about 64 degrees then moved it upstairs for another 4 weeks at 67 to 68 degrees I've had 2 other beers that carbinated just fine in the same time period in the same conditions. It has just a very...

Well it just happened to me, My worst brew day to date . Was starting to make my oatmeal stout (wich took a bronze medal in a local home brew contest),first time outside.Tweeked my recipie and everything was going great. mashed in the grain hit my temp right on (Wich I missed the last time)then...

I brewed a partial mash dunkelweisen yesterday about 4:00 p.m. This was my first full boil as I just got my wort chiller ( worked greast ) I checked it this morning about 3:30 a.m. noticed my room temp was about 62 degrees and no activity turned up my space heater and went to work. When I got...

I made a yeast starter this morning before work for a brew I was planning on making this Sunday. Now it looks like my weekend will be too busy.It hasen't kicked off yet was wondering if I should refridgerate it now or wait ? Or should I just let it go untill next weekend. I have it in a flask...

Hi , I am fairly new to home brewing , Started in November 2007. Looking to meet other brewers from the area that might be going to the homebrew party.

what I have been doing is as I fill my fermentation bucket with my auto syphen I keep filling a gallon water jug 1/3 to 1/2 full and shake it vigoruosly. then add it to the fermentor. seems to be working fine so far ( 4 batches)