Water volume for steeping grains, open vs closed transferring, and adding a carb stone to your keg — Ep. 186

Hope you’re doing well, homebrewer! and we thank you for tuning in to another episode of Homebrew Happy Hour podcast… the podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer! A SUBTLE REMINDER: If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Patreon community! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you’ll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts on HomebrewSupply.com and Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today  —  https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21132635 On Today’s Show: FIRST we are SO EXCITED to announce the 5 winners of our HomebrewCon Online ticket giveaway! Tune in to see if your name was drawn and check your inbox later today because I’ll have all the details emailed to you if you were one of our winners. Congrats to all who won and, even if you didn’t win, we sincerely hope that you’ll join us on June 18th thru the 20th for the online event. We will be presenting at 4pm Central timezone on June 18th and our talk is titled “IN DEPTH: Draft Beer Systems and Building a Keezer”. We’ve put a lot of work into this presentation and we’re extremely proud with how it turned out so come join us (link to register is here: https://www.homebrewcon.org/ ) We also took your questions and had a great time this week producing the show. Covering topics like the appropriate amount of water when you have specialty grains to steep as part of your extract recipe kit, moving from open transferring to closed transferring during fermentation and bottling/kegging, and also the pros and cons of adding carb stones to the gas dip tubes of your homebrew kegs. We want to hear from you! If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to that episode’s sponsor! Let us know what you think and enjoy the show! cheers, joshua ————————– Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at HomebrewSupply.com: https://homebrewsupply.com/ingredients/yeast/imperial-yeast/ ————————– Become a Patron!  Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our newly launched Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! https://www.patreon.com/HomebrewHappyHour ————————– Are you a member of the American Homebrewers Association yet?  — CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/support-the-aha/?promo=Homebrew-Happy-Hour