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Last night I made a starter for a Marzen that I'm brewing this weekend. I boil in a 2L erlynmeyer on the stove. I had 1.6L of liquid in there with a single drop of foam control and the little fucker couldn't boil over. It was sweet. My wife didn't seem all that impressed, so I thought I'd tell you people.

Boil one over once on the stove, stinking up the house and crusting up the stovetop. THEN she'll be impressed!

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You're one of many singing its praises...

boobookittyfuk wrote:Last night I made a starter for a Marzen that I'm brewing this weekend. I boil in a 2L erlynmeyer on the stove. I had 1.6L of liquid in there with a single drop of foam control and the little fucker couldn't boil over. It was sweet. My wife didn't seem all that impressed, so I thought I'd tell you people.

I agree, the stuff works extremely well. I wonder what the hell it's made of though? It's pretty viscuous and nasty looking, and it needs to be refrigerated. Jesse from was helping me look for a MSDS sheet at the B3 Concord showroom one day, but we never did find out. Maybe Doc's got some info there..

nahthan wrote:

boobookittyfuk wrote:Last night I made a starter for a Marzen that I'm brewing this weekend. I boil in a 2L erlynmeyer on the stove. I had 1.6L of liquid in there with a single drop of foam control and the little fucker couldn't boil over. It was sweet. My wife didn't seem all that impressed, so I thought I'd tell you people.

I agree, the stuff works extremely well. I wonder what the hell it's made of though? It's pretty viscuous and nasty looking, and it needs to be refrigerated. Jesse from was helping me look for a MSDS sheet at the B3 Concord showroom one day, but we never did find out. Maybe Doc's got some info there..

I think this is what you are looking for....

FermCap S Material Safety Data Sheet

Looks like it is essentially bees wax, who'd a known.

I tried some Fermcap S yesterday for the first time and am impressed. I brewed Tasty's APA and pitched about half a yeast cake of Pacman from another beer I had just racked. I got a call from work right when I pitched and had to leave for a while. I was figuring on pumping some O2 into the wort when I got back.

I got back to it about 3 hours later and fermentation was rolling like crazy. Foam was crawling rapidly towards the airlock. At this point I would ordinarily be scrambling for the blow off tube. Instead, I added 12 drops of Fermcap S (5.5 gallons of wort). The rise of the foam stopped and by morning there was only about about an inch of foam left yet the airlock was chugging away like a steam engine. I just may be able to retire my blow off tube. That thing is a pain to clean anyway.

Wayne

Bugeater wrote:I tried some Fermcap S yesterday for the first time and am impressed. I brewed Tasty's APA and pitched about half a yeast cake of Pacman from another beer I had just racked. I got a call from work right when I pitched and had to leave for a while. I was figuring on pumping some O2 into the wort when I got back.

I got back to it about 3 hours later and fermentation was rolling like crazy. Foam was crawling rapidly towards the airlock. At this point I would ordinarily be scrambling for the blow off tube. Instead, I added 12 drops of Fermcap S (5.5 gallons of wort). The rise of the foam stopped and by morning there was only about about an inch of foam left yet the airlock was chugging away like a steam engine. I just may be able to retire my blow off tube. That thing is a pain to clean anyway.

Wayne

I'll be curious to see if you see any notable side effects Bug, keep us posted!

I have been buying this from Williams Brewing for quite some time. Last time I ordered it was in January and it was $6.95 for a 4oz bottle. I am ready to order more and notice that they have raised the price to $9.99!!!! I see that Northern Brewers still has it for $6.95.