Search results

I'm doing 50ml vials of yeast slurry. So make a starter. Decant extra. Mix slurry with glycerin at 15% concentration. Put into vial. Freeze.

Doing my yeast bank. Have successfully frozen and reused my yeast a few times now so happy with my process. Have been putting my glycerin in a mason jar and doing 20 minutes at 15psi with my water. It's USP glycerin. This isn't necessary is it?

Whats the metabite? I have a note here from the home brewers meetup the other night that Sulfate would chemically bond with and precipitate oxygen..... Why i would write just sulfate I'm not entirely sure.

I was going to boil for 5 minutes, recirculte through my chiller and back in to sanitize, then pour into co2 purged keg from chiller while it's on my grain scale to measure out exactly the half keg. The beer then will be used to top up the keg from the fermentor. Kinda like the idea of just...

I'm making my first attempt at doing some high gravity brewing. I made a double batch of my pale ale and threw it into the fermenter at an OG of 1.101 and 80 IBUs. Though mechanically my hop spider was too full so I need to.change the hopping process as I guarantee my utilization was much lower...

Lines are 6 feet but i flow control faucets. I mean a solid jostle, pick up and drop from a foot basically. The keg ranout out before i figured out why and the next one is pouring perfect on the same tap. Somethings i guess we will never find out. lol

I appear to really suck at pouring my pale ale an i'm not sure why. I had to shift things around about a week ago in side the kegerator and after a hard knock i was getting foam. This did not really surpirse me all that much. What is killing me is that a week later sitting next to my double IPA...

Brewing on a grain father and it doesn't really seem there is a way to check ph and gravity of the final runnings since the mashtun sits directly on the kettle. I'm thinking once it's done draining the mash, I will have to relocate it onto something with a spigot. Any thoughts?

That's good to know! I'll have to have a look around. Thanks!

Yeah, gasket is always seated correctly. One in particular that's the worst, the flange is about an 1/8th of an inch thicker than the others so that doesn't help. It often unseats when you close the clamp and you have to redo it. It's just annoying cause literally an extra 1/2inch on the clamp...

I use the SS brew tech 7 gal Chronical BME. It's got 1.5" trip clamps on the rack and dump port. I'm finding that length of the Bolt for the nut is not long enough or just barely long enough to actually lock the clamp in place. Otherwise the nut comes off. Really bloody annoying. Anyone else...

Hey everyone. I've just started my yeast bank and have had a successful brew from a frozen sample (though yet to keg, so we will see how flavor is impacted if I did it right) My local shop is doing a pre order including some Brett. Was wondering if I should pick up a pack. I'm assuming I can...

Nevermind, just relised the .010 and 0.11 were fused together on my feeler guage :(

Does anyone have the Malt Muncher 3 Roller Mill? I picked one up, and its great, efficiency through the roof. But i can't gap it larger than .048 and it says it goes up to .063. I Was looking to readjust the crust to 0.050 as i'm not getting proper flow and lautering on my grain father. Wort...

Yeah. But just the tubes or the co2 manifold too?

Wondering how other people with this clean it after using it. I've just used mine for the first time and it makes sense to me that you really only need to remove the 2 tubes and rubber stopper for a 1 hr hot pbw soak. Does anyone clean or sanitize the handle? It shouldn't have had any beer...

Did my first yeast Harveat from my conical. I did a couple trub dumps first and pull this after a 2 day cold crash. This is just straight yeast under the beer isn't it? I'm assuming I can pretty much just decant this and repitch it right? It won't get used probably for month, so when I do use...

Got a long stainless steel anything? Spoon maybe? Poke it! Poke her like she gave verbal consent!

Lol just take off the lid and look inside man. There's breweries that do entire open ferments. Don't go running around throwing confetti while you do it but it'll be fine. You will see the ice immediately if there is any. Either way I'm sure this wasn't the only batch your ever gonna make ;)...

Great. Thanks for the info!