MagicSmoker

LATEST ACTIVITY

• Posted in thread: The easy way to drain a BIAB bag on 04-20-2013 at 02:52 PM
  I guess everyone wants to chime in with their different approaches to draining BIAB bags... Eh,
  why not? Had a thread like this been around a few weeks ago I might not have wasted my money
  buying two ...

• Posted in thread: RO water adjustments: Just not getting it on 04-20-2013 at 02:34 PM
  For anyone using RO water, having a TDS meter is a very valuable quality assurance check on the
  water. This applies to both people with their own machines and those that purchase from a
  vending machin...

• Posted in thread: Water - Filtered Bottled vs. Boiled Tap on 04-20-2013 at 02:25 PM
  I dunno about the advice that if your water tastes fine to drink it will make good beer. My
  water tastes fine to drink (perhaps because of the whole-house carbon filter), but it is fairly
  alkaline (8....

• Posted in thread: $5 for IBU testing! on 04-19-2013 at 12:48 PM
  Good points and true enough for someone who does lab work. But most of us by the sounds of it
  do not work in a lab nor care if the results are within a percentage point or so. We are
  brewing home brew...

• Posted in thread: Avoiding bees while brewing on 04-17-2013 at 05:15 PM
  A screen is a solution in search of a problem ... when bees hit the boiling wort they are
  instantly killed (sad) and sanitized (good). If you are worrying about the time when you are
  cooling, the wort...

• Posted in thread: $5 for IBU testing! on 04-17-2013 at 01:39 PM
  Who is to say the online guesses are less accurate than a lab test?We got it... you're a hater.
  Please move along now.

• Posted in thread: $5 for IBU testing! on 04-16-2013 at 10:33 PM
  Guys, I think the main value in tests like this is in relative comparisons, not absolute
  numbers. For example, how many IBUs are added from a 3oz whirlpool addition vs. a 4oz. Or
  moving the 20 minute ...

• Posted in thread: Step by step of my brewday: Doing a massive hop stand on 04-15-2013 at 01:33 PM
  Kal. Just saw this thread on IBU testing. Would be the perfect beer to test this service...+1
  on this. Take advantage of the service now before the guy realizes $5 per IBU test just isn't
  worth the bo...

• Posted in thread: $5 for IBU testing! on 04-15-2013 at 12:37 PM
  I'll definitely be sending you a bottle of my Stone Ruination clone after it is bottled and
  carbed up. For $5 plus the bottle of beer why the hell not?That said, I can't imagine how you
  can do this pr...

• Posted in thread: First time using a starter: pitch cold or warm? on 04-15-2013 at 11:11 AM
  Thanks again for the help yesterday, everyone! The airlock was bubbling away when I got up at
  6am, so either my starter worked or I have a helluva infection! :fro:All in all this was a
  fairly painless...