Recent content by atlantatexas

I feed my spent grains and used hops to my chickens not sure the nutrional value but the love them. Then they leave me a really compostable material.

I am experimenting with making yeast go farther. I bought a vial of white labs San Diego made a yeast starter pitchched about 3/4 of it and then started another starter with some canned wort and let it go for 3 days. Then stopped the stir bar let it settle. Poured off the "beer" added water let...

I just use a post-it and clamp it in place using the clamp corny lid. It won't move until the keg is empty and I open it for cleaning. Since I usually have a couple sitting in my brew room priming, I always put my label in place when I rack from the carboy

Turkey fryer was $100 and I like it because I can set the temp and walk away while mashing. I only use the heat stick to bring water to mash temp and then to raise to boil. The rest of the time it is the fryer alone.

Well I wanted to move my brewing into the AC. Heat in Texas is rough. I saw all the bright and shiny control panels and just drooled. I looked at wiring diagrams for hours and felt totally intimidated. Well then I found me an electric turkey fryer. It was only 1650 watts and was afraid that it...

Well I have four 12 hour days scheduled at work before my off day and I got my heat stick built so I put it in my pot filled with water I guess if after 4 days of soaking if it is still dry inside I will get to do my first e-brew. If not I still got the propane burner. Just keeping my fingers...

Or you could give it the real test. Drink about ten if you can't stand its got alcohol in it.

I try to save any sparge water after my boil kettle is full just in case I need it. It is better than adding plain old water. Right wrong or indifferent that's what I do.

Atlanta Texas just south of texarkana