Elko brewer

Dish soap is not a real good choice for cleaning it will leave a scum on the inside of the bottles. You will have better luck if you use oxyclean free. I buy it at Walmart just make sure you give it a good rinse out

I have never tried the extract but I have used orange peel several times with much success

+1. The screwy brewer calculator is a great tool

Thanks for all the great feed back fellow brewers. Woke up this morning to a nice surprise the smack PAC was fully inflated. So I made a starter and brewed this afternoon. Brew day went good no hick ups four hours later the yeast were having a major party in the fermenter. So life is once again awsome. Thanks again.

Thanks for all the help guys. I checked out the smack PAC and it seems that I did get the nutrient PAC broke this morning I did just give it a little shake hope that's not a bad thing. So I guess the only thing I can do is ride it out. When it starts to activate I will make a starter and see if I can blow the lid off the fermenter.

Haerbob3. It was shipped with a cold PAC but when I got it the yeast and cold PAC was warm

Well today was going to be a brew day, I got up at 5:30 am got the wyeast 1214 belgian abbey liquid yeast out of the fridge gave it a good smack, shook it up it's now 4:30 and the yeast still is not making the bag expand. I will give it a few more days but I'm thinking the yeast might have got to hot when it was being shipped to me. Has anyone else had this kind of problem with Wyeast 1214 Belgian Abby liquid yeast ?

OMG, you are my new hero. Now get to brewin

+1 crack the lids to vent some gas and drink the next day if you used pet bottles. If you used glass 12oz bottles you will just have to live with it. Next time you bottle look at the screwy brewer chart it helps out a bunch.

Sam you can give it a try with the pale malt and 1/2oz of the cascade hops. Bring 4 cups water to a boil add the pale malt and hops boil for 15 min. Remove from stove add the mr beer octoberfest, add 1 gallon cold water to LBK. Then add wort and bring water level up to 2-1/2 gallon in LBK stir good and add 1/2 packet of us-o5 yeast. This will be a little lighter in color then howling red. Also keep the hops in the LBK tell ready to bottle

Looks like the only thing your missing is the golden LME .

Welcome. Keep the LBKs full and you will have a pipe line in no time

The bottles should be kept at room temp for four weeks after that put one in the fridge let it cool for a few days then give it a try. If it tast good to you then put them all in the fridge and drink on. The best way to get the pipe line going is to keep the LBK full

Welcome Paul, I would not worry to much about it. But let it condition for another two weeks at room emp then put one in the fridge for a few days and give it a tast. Just remember in the end you made beer

I have heard of people fermenting up to 6 to 8 weeks but that is when the beer is transferred to a secondary fermentator. I would think that if your going to use a long frematation cycle you should use a secondary I have been told that if the wort sits in the turb cake to long it will give off flavors to the beer.