Recent content by brewjedi

:off: Oh and thanks for actually reading my post before responding. The guys at BN forum don't seem to be able to understand anything they haven't heard the podcast or read what's being written :p JK BN guys....

OH... I forgot to mention I was mashing enough wort to make starter for 20 gallons of 1.070 ;) I'm hoping to do this once a week so I might as well start stepping this stuff up now that I know its not dead. It just doesn't seem like I got a ton of slurry but the ferment is at 7.5 hours and it's...

OK, I may have screwed up there. I did a 50 minute boil assuming I needed to boil off DMS. I was planing on pitching the whole starter, not flocculating, decanting, and making another damn starter. So did I boil off nutrients or something?

So I ordered some WLP001 from more beer. Had it shipped in ice packs. It took two days to get here so I know that it was at god knows what temp for 24 hours. when I received it I immediately placed it in the underground cellar where I ferment. Then I mashed and boiled a perfect 1.040 wort from...

I've got alot of freinds:mug:

Thanks for the reply;). The reason this maters is I plan to make a matched set. HLT, MLT,BK, and conical fermenter. I'm thinking I want about 25 gallons post boil miniumum, but also considering using 55 gallon plastic barrel fermenters with which I would want about 40 gallons post boil. So this...

I'm one of those lucky guys with a small machine shop. I shopped around for equipment and figured out it would be cheaper and more fun to fabricate my own equipment. What I can't seem to find is an actual formula to figure a pre-boil volume for a given post boil volume. I know that the diameter...