Recent content by bradsul

I'll definitely take a look. I still need to do some research and see about the state of online homebrewing supplies in Canada these days and what's available. Ordering from the US is just not an option anymore.

That sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out. I always loved the mash/sparging process though so I can't imagine I'd stay away from it forever. I really enjoyed decoction brewing as well - though I doubt I'd have the time to devote to that these days. Clearly I'll have to do some...

Unfortunately I had to get rid of anything with any kind of size. So my mash tun and HLT are gone, all my better bottles and kegs, my kegerator. I did keep my large boil kettles but even my burner is gone. I kept a bunch of fittings and some ingredients that don't spoil. My monster mill...

Hi Yooper! Good to see you're still around these parts! The avatar looks familiar too! :) BeerXml I'm guessing? I remember that was just coming into being (I don't think Beersmith supported it yet) when I had to leave homebrewing. From what I can tell the only converter is from promash text...

Hey everyone! Former MOD for this forum and finally making my way back to the brewing world, it feels like it's been a lifetime! I'm excited to read about new things going on. It's amazing when I walk into the beer store these days and see things that we were just playing around with back...

Legalities aside, it is against forum rules to discuss this subject. Until that changes, a locking we will go!

It ends up suspending about 10cm or so below the surface. But the only reason for this is that I loop the draw string around the top of the better bottle. I just happen to prefer removing the hop bag before racking the beer to keg or the bottling bucket. That's just a personal preference...

I have some glass beads I sanitize and use to weigh the bag down. I've never experienced any kind of overflow however. I add my dry hops to secondary about a week after it gets racked there, most of the CO2 has left the beer by that point.

I drink stout all year long, I can't get enough of it personally. :D I do tend to drink less during the summer though for the same reason as Walker. A nice mild or bitter works best for me in the hot months.

I've never thought to do that, but it sounds like an interesting idea. I guess the key would be that you'd need to let it sit and settle long enough for the yeast to drop back out. Which if you're only doing after the first couple days wouldn't be much of an issue. Personally I like to use a...

Glad you enjoyed it Cheers! :mug: I plan to brew this again within a few weeks myself.

Sorry, this one is out of bounds.

If you're looking to brew totally to style you probably should. I don't have much interest in that myself as it adds nothing to the flavour in this case.

Nothing to be sorry for, your solutions, while I'm quite sure they work, have absolutely nothing to do with the original problem this solution was designed to solve. That would be cooling the lines in the tower when you have no space in the fridge for fans etc. This has been working for me...

I haven't had it in a little while but I remember it being fairly dark for a pale ale. 15SRM sounds about right to me.