Recent content by supergaijin

I'm just thanking my lucky stars that nobody got hurt. I found it before the wife. This goes with me to the grave

Is that considered "common knowledge" in the brew community? I'd never heard/read cautionary tales of underfilling bottles before. My intuition would tell me quite the reverse in fact

I had a few fairly old ones that came from various friends here in France. But yeah I'd choose one of them over a typical 750ml any night to use on an intruder

***** - better head downstairs!

So it finally happened. Had one bottle go pop after 115 brews. Was an old Fischer bottle containing a Xmas brew that I put down a few months back. My interest though is that I'm pretty sure it was a half-filled bottle. If I recall correctly there wasn't enough to fill completely so I thought...

Nice one. Thanks all.

Yes. I have less and less weekend time to bottle and wash so it was brought about through that. Having brewed ginger beer this way before, I thought I'd give it a nudge with beer. Besides the rapid fermentation (advantageous in winter) there hasn't been any bad surprises so far.

Hi all. I have been brewing kits for years but only recently started brewing a kit straight after bottling without washing out the brew bucket. Sometimes on the same evening or the next day. The most I've done before washing out the bucket is 3. Starting with a clean bucket, I leave the brew...

Thanks for the answers. I compost my trub, but was wondering if there was any way to use it in another way. Most bread makers seem not to be using kit trub. Was wondering whether there was a difference.

Hi all. Having searched a few different forums out I haven't been able to find out whether it's possible to bake bread with trub from kit brews. Anyone here tried it out?