Recent content by adeas

I also have an 8 gallon pot for apartment brewing. I'll do BIAB if it can all fit in my pot, but otherwise I'll do my mash in my 75qt chest cooler (a remnant from before I live in an apartment). For the boil, I do it on an electric stove with a canning element (bumps up the heat quite a bit and...

Two suggestions to do full boils on an apartment stove: 1) Search for a canning element for your stove. I have a 2,600 watt element one I found on eBay that matched the model of my stove. Helps get extra BTUs into my pot, and it's also much sturdier for a 60lb pot. 2) Heat stick FTW! Lots of...

When I used to live in CT I went to the brew shop run by the authors (Maltose Express in Minroe, CT). Great shop - lots of wine & beer gear, big warehouse and they have the sweetest golden labs. Anyways, I'd call the recipes "inspirational" vs direct clones. As someone said on the Headdy Topper...

When I used to live in CT I went to the brew shop run by the authors (Maltose Express in Minroe, CT). Great shop - lots of wine & beer gear, big warehouse and they have the sweetest golden labs. Anyways, I'd call the recipes "inspirational" vs direct clones. As someone said on the Headdy Topper...

Thanks Hammy - the 2nd batch is going over well with SWMBO so I'm thinking I'm going to do exactly that - rebrew but swap the yeast back to the Cali Lager. It cleaned up a bit faster and is a bit less phenolic at 2.5 weeks. It really is astounding the difference as the beer progresses - the...

Hi all, I've recently brewed 2 blonde ales back to back and came out with slightly different results in terms of body & mouth-feel than I was expecting and wanted to solicit the HBT community for some insight. My original recipe was based on the CloneBrews clone of Checker Cab Blonde from...

Hi all - slightly old post, but I'm about to get my hands on one of these Danby's (Black ones are on sale for $187 @ WallyWorld) but I'm going to be putting my taps through the door because I'm dealing with some height restrictions. Two questions: 1) Any idea how thick the doors are to...

Haha, oh totally, I'll admit on going slightly overboard on it. It was a fun adventure :-) And actually, I can still take the manifold off and throw the old tap back on it. But I'm with you TASNTAAFB - not sure I want to put cokes into the same thing I'm mashing in!

FLBrewMeister - we have a great homebrew shop in CT I've been going to - Maltose Express - www.maltose.com - Very well known place. The owners are the authors of CloneBrews.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Brew sculpture. I like it. No fancy setup as of yet - all manual. Burner is out on the deck, I'll dump the strike water into the cooler then it goes up on a desk for the mash. I'll do the running, then sparge on the desk. Then back out on to the deck for the boil. I'm...

Brew sculpture? Not sure I'm getting you there! Help out a bit? :-p Yeah, I decided to skip the partial mash and go AG - I have a buddy at work who said "You do AG once, and you'll wonder what you ever thought was so hard about it" so I just went for it after a bit of research. YouTube and...

Hey guys, Wanted to share my (What I think of as unique) AG setup. My background - did 3 all extract brews, and decided to just go for it, after reading a few good books (How To Brew, Clonebrews, Designing Great Beers, Brew Like A Monk). I'm the sort of person who loves to read all I can about...

All, thanks for the advice. It's not a Better Bottle, but a bucket-like wine fermenter (Buddy is a wine maker). I'll try the Oxi soak and sunlight when I get home (Visiting fam for a week for the holidays) and will report back!

I was gifted a 6 gal plastic fermenter that someone (wine maker) thought would be good to clean out with PineSol before they gave it to me (I think it had been sitting around for awhile and was kinda... funky). Anyways, a few washes with OneStep as well as light bleach, I cannot get the...