Thread: Couple home brew pics

Thanks enigma and max! Tbh I will buy a laminar flow bench in the future. Definitely looked at them and priced a few out, just with the expenses of everything I purchased to do my first few runs. After raws, vials, hot plate, bought a lot of filters, stoppers, autoclave,, labels, carrier oil glass all the jazz, I went with the lesser expensive of a route that I still felt comfortable with putting in my own body. and had a few brews under my belt. Then I learned and learned and learned cause I think I was semi addicted to brewing for a min. I started with small batches to see where I needed to improve not because of a concern of a sterile environment but because I wanted to learn and really have to go through the steps repetitively to learn my flow and how I wanted to do things and how to operate the process with repetition. I definitely used more filters then needed cause I probably could of got away with syringe filters my first few batches. But I wanted to learn with bottle top filters cause I new I would need to down the road. Cause I’m on self prescribed trt. And I have been researching the brewing processes for years and just never pulled the trigger for a really long time. But I feel like what I’ve done is a success for me, because I have a lot of test to last me on trt for quiet some time. And I also wanna thank all you guys commenting in the home brew chemistry section and posting reviews cause I gained a ton of knowledge, ideas and thoughts what ifs and precautions, and improvements from everyone of you guys, just silently reading through your threads and problem solving people’s issues. Help me avoid a lot of mistakes. One thing though I can say that I still don’t understand though. That I’d like to hear insight on, is I read a lot of these threads saying lowers your bb you don’t need it or lower your ba. or change this ratio or change that. With test e. I did one run of a few bottles of test e at 18 % bb. Instead of 20 because of all that back and forth lower your bb lower your ba that’s cause the pip as an experiment. I think the gear is noticeably smoother with more bb. Even just with that 2% I could tell a big difference in my body. And I know everyone is different, but I can’t imagine ever wanting to go super low on bb. I feel like it actually helps with pip and people say lower it it causes pip I feel like it is miss leading and I would never play with that again. At 18% I could feel tension in my muscle where I pinned my quad. Where at 20% I would forget I even pinned the night before still ran the gear it didn’t cripple me by any means but I could notice I pinned 3 ml in my quad. But still feels miss leading to me cause at 20 I could pin 4 mls and walk around the next day forget I even pinned the night before.

Good thread.

Practice makes perfect.

Stacked do you use GSO? The extra BB might thin it out just a smidge and make it easier to pin? I've never noticed a difference on PIP between BB ratios. Although I am a huge fan of MCT as the carrier.

I use cotton seed oil.

Could be it. It's even thicker than GSO.

Could be in my conclusion after a getting some brews under my belt. 2/20 is the sweet spot in my brew process I won’t be switching ratios around anymore.

Originally Posted by Stack3d

Could be in my conclusion after a getting some brews under my belt. 2/20 is the sweet spot in my brew process I won’t be switching ratios around anymore.

The ratio u found to be the best....is it the same w/ all compounds?.....been thinking about making my own for a while now but just really started reading more in depth....thanks.....

Your labels and gear look great bud, hard work has definitely paid off that’s for sure....


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Looks awesome brother. Can anyone comment on the lower bb actually causing more pip? I always thought it was the other way around? I have brew as low as 14% bb and 2% and that has helped. For me 18% is to high.