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So call me crazy but im looking at building a small cooling unit for a 5gal corny keg and my wife doesnt want me to build a jocky box or put in a spare refrigerator. Crazy right? I know it is. SO im looking at making one. ABout what size cooler should fit a 5gal corny keg?

lets see here i've brewed about 30 this year so far so 30+16002 = 16032

It really depends on the amount of fermentable sugars that are left in the beer. Just because the hydrometer reading says 1.020 that doesn't mean that there are any fermentable sugars left. There could be non fermentable sugars. I would like everyone else says wait a few days and take another...

It depends on the type of yeast that you used. In my experience ( all 10 beers that ive made ) its perfectly normal.

I was looking to do a Blood wine and a Romulan Ale here in the near future. If you don't mind, could you shoot me over the recipie that you used and do you have any suggestions as to how the Romulan Ale? From what I can gather from the tv shows and movies its more like a wine than anything else...

Very cool then. Thanks. Out of curiosity hiw ling will that stuff be there? Beersmith daid it needs to go into a secondary after 4 days of initial fermentation

So I did my first all grain batch the other day. This makes I think counting the mead I have made a total of 16 gallons of booze so I am still new to this. Anyways I opened up the fermenter ( its a 6.5 gallon bucket that my HBS recommended ) and there was this layer of what i referr to as scum...

boiled bread yeast you say? a spoonfull with a few cups of water sounds easy enough then. Thanks for the help

I forgot to mention also that I added 2lbs of cormn sugar also when it started. It tastes fine like i said before. It actually tastes pretty dry as it is. Ill probably just clear it and drink it as it is. Now do i need to degass it when i go to bottle it or should I just leave it as is? Alswo...

First time mead brewer here and I have a quick question. I started fermenting my traditional mead a couple of weeks ago and ther OG 1.108. I checked it last week and this week and the SG was 1.030 both times. So there has been no change. I am using a wine yeast that I got from my local HBS...

Here is the gallong of strawberry melomel i started on thursday

+5 gallons of a vanilla mead +1 gallon of a Strawberry mead = 1098 gallons