Recent content by beerand420

Ok, agreed, but only if I get to define a low pressurized keg with a gallon or 2 of starsan in it as a spray bottle and a bucket to catch my 'over spray' I'm all about efficency. Who cares about a dollar of Starsan. :p I do like to clean my beerlines, taps and keg valves from time to time...

I have to wonder why every kitchen I've worked in has a sink full of fresh sanitizer for all of the dishes to go through if spray was enough... does the health dept agree? I've had quite a few cheap bosses in the past that would probably just use a spray of tap water if they could pass an...

I'm pretty much like the OP except I transfer my initial 5 gallons from keg to carboy under pressure, and then into an old bottling bucket where I toss just about everything else I'm using. At the end of the day I have a full spray bottle to use in the kitchen for the next week or so, and I...

Getting a brew specific software tool set is the best purchase I've made to date aside from my core equipment. The OP has his stuff in BeerXML so it would be a step backwards to strip it all down to plain text to import it into Word at this point I think. While any word processor app can handle...

I'd do it as soon as the ground thaws so your transplants have a full growing season in their new location. However, you could postpone a couple weeks if you anticipate more hard freezes in the next few weeks. I'm in Denver, my new ones are already in the ground, but no vines poking up yet...

I'd hit them with something like 30PSI. 12 to 15 will take forever using that approach. Also, after you apply the gas, disconnect and shake the keg, hit it with some more pressure then and you'll probably not have to revisit that keg for another day. Have you considered removing one of the kegs...

I'm always coming back to this one. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/centennial-blonde-simple-4-all-grain-5-10-gall-42841/ If the amount of positive feedback doesn't convince a person that it's a total winner, not sure what would.

Right on :) I did the same thing about 20 seconds ago. Good stuff. Slight edit lol, I'm only using green.

I tried to upload an xml file of one of my recipies, but the forum only supports a few file types.. Actually, you can generate one yourself if you have beer smith, just select a folder with recipes in it, then select File > Export As and select the BeerXML file format. As you'd expect, this...

I think the concern about having extra oxygen in the fermentor comes from the fact that you are probably really short on fermentables at this point since it was ready to bottle before. Question kind of circles back to your current level of fermentables and how active the yeast is really going to...

Beersmith does this too, it's under the file menu, Export As option. Pretty sure most the top tools can export in a web viewable format. It probably isn't used much in Beersmith because most users won't want to leave the application to view their data, great for sharing with others though.

The consumer for most XML is software, not the human eyeball, if that makes sense. That's why it looks like code, it pretty much is exactly that, except it's just data. In otherwords, a lot of programs are expecting XML data feeds that contain all of the data that application uses, displays...

I use BeerSmith, you can create folders to orgainize how you want. For example you could create a folder for all of your beers that use Centennial has a primary hop. It could get a bit complicated if you have 20 folders, all containing duplicate recipies. The default setup is a folder for...

Did you take a gravity reading on the 'honey / beer' mix? My only concern is if you have enough fermentables to hit whatever targets you may have in mind with just enough honey to bottle condition. I know it takes more honey than corn sugar to bottle condition, and probably a lot more to do a...

There's a lot of conflicting information out there regarding the strains used for bottling vs. fermenting. I think the jury is still out on that one. I'd probably do a test batch with your harvested yeast and see how it goes. The first page of this thread seems to indicate that it works fine...