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I'm not very familiar with the Mr Beer equipment but from what I've seen it doesn't look like it has an airlock, also you dont want too much headspace in your secondary. The less contact with oxygen the better. I'd suggest picking up a few 1 gallon growlers and throw some airlocks on them?

Hey everyone, Just kegged an APA, hooked up the gas and started to turn the knob and I can hear gas going into the keg but the gauge still reads zero. It's a tapright regulator, wonder if anyone has any suggestions to set the pressure " rightish" until I can get a new gauge this week? Was...

Ok sounds like a plan! I'll bottle it up and crash after it carbs up. Thanks for the help!

I don't have the ability to cold condition....fermentation chamber is on the list. Unless putting it in a swamp cooler packed with ice might work? How much gelatin should I use? Does it need to be sterilized before adding it?

Hey everyone, I am want to bottle this as soon as I can but it's not as clear as I'd like. Yeast is Wyeast 2565, pitched it March 23. Fermented at 59 degrees OG was 1.046, FG is 1.012 today. Tastes great! What are the chances of it clearing if I let it sit longer?

Yeah its an extract recipe. It tastes good, I'll transfer and dry hop and see what happens

Hey everyone. I have a black IPA that is making my life interesting. I pitched Wyeast 1332 (northwest ale) at 66 degrees on Feb 22. fermentation was good for about a week and then slowed right down and the Krausen took forever to drop. OG was 1.060 and my reading today is 1.020. Should I...

Hey everyone, I've got the same results with this strain. Krausen hasn't dropped yet and it's been three weeks. The blow off is still bubbling but I have to secondary anyways to dry hop. If it hasn't quite finished yet is it OK to transfer and dry hop?

Hey everyone. I haven't had time to brew in a few months but FINALLY had time to do a partial extract this morning. I got everything ready...everything was going smooth, until.....I went to remove the plate that I placed on the bottom of my kettle to keep the steeping grains from burning on...

Ok sounds like a plan. Thanks for your input! Sent from my C6506 using Home Brew mobile app

63 is the temperature of the beer. I checked it before heading to work this morning and it was still going crazy. I have the blow off tube going into a wine bottle with sanitizer in it but at this rate I hope It doesn't overflow before I get home. I will probably switch to a bigger container. If...

I pitched the yeast Sunday afternoon (Salfbrew S33) and came home from work today and the blow off is going nuts! I have about 9 or 10 brews under my belt but none of them have ever fermented this vigorously. Is it "normal" to have this much activity? Temperature is about 63. Sent from my C6506...

Hey everyone, Up to this point to sanitize my bottles I have been filling up my bottling bucket the whole way with iphodor and filling up each bottle, which is pretty much doubling my bottling time. I'm wondering if using iphodor with an avinator would cut down on that? I'm just worried about...

Ok, that isn't too bad then. I tasted it before bottling and it tastes pretty good to me...

So I bottled my first extract brew today and got about three bottles into it and realized that I had less than what the kit said it would make (23 liters). Obviously I didn't add enough water after I transferred the wort into the primary, now it makes perfect sense why I had such a hard time...

Just wondering if it is necessary to stir some of the yeast from the trub back into the beer before transferring to the bottling bucket? Someone was telling me that if you let the beer clear by letting it sit in the primary for a couple of weeks that there may not be enough yeast left in...

I went with the Wyeast 1272. Pitched it late Sunday evening and had lots of airlock activity about 18 hrs after, settled down after about 2 days. I'll take a gravity reading in a couple of days just to see where it is at.

Ill have to give it a shot eventually and see how it turns out! Thanks for all the info!

Yeah I don't think I will be buying anything else with a spigot unless its a bottling bucket! Do you ferment with your Better Bottles??

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll do a little research about the Wyeast, looks like a pretty cool product. I guess after I have a few more brews under my belt I'll have a better idea of what works best for me...