Made this from a nice piece of perforated stainless and hinged it together using stainless steel hinges, nuts and bolts purchased form West Marine. This thing has been used in about 6 batches. It works great, but I am making some changes to my setup. $75 Face to face or i can ship it for an...
That's gotta be it huh? if temp or adding a little too much sugar wont produce that result it has to be something bad in the wort. i'll work on getting all new bottles rather than trying to reuse old ones. Any thoughts on plastic buckets vs glass carboys?? will plastic buckets run a higher...
i actually did not take temp when i bottled. i just know that it got really freaking hot in the house the next day while i was at work right after bottling. if i had to guess what room temp was when i bottled i would say around 75, and that is what i accounted for in beersmith.
I did a week in primary then moved to secondary for 2 weeks. Gravity was stable for the final week. According to beersmith the estimated FG was 1.014 and i measured 1.010 before bottling.
Thanks for the tip!! that calculator is much more user friendly and flexible that beersmith. However, it still gets me pretty close to the same measurements i used previously when all my bottle exploded. So maybe this is a temperature issue. Anything else i may be missing here?
This is related to bottle conditioning using the beersmith carbonation tool.
So I am having issues with bottle bombs/over carbonation since using Beersmith. I am convinced this is user error as I have had 100% success copying recipes from other brewers. But every time I use beersmith I have...
So like you OP, I am having issues with bottle bombs since using Beersmith. I am convinced this is user error as I have had 100% success copying recipes from other breweries.
My last 2 batches I followed the beersmith instructions to a T.
Beersmith says I should add 5.14 oz of DME for...
he is taking a design class at Irvine Valley College, so he gets access to lots of really cool equipment. i'll ask him to create a thread on how he made it and post the link on this thread.