After a couple of days of PMing people shipping costs, I have come to this determination:
1) Unless you want ~$30 or more worth of stuff, shipping will be cost prohibitive for you.
2) The Brew Stand, Kegs, and Mash/Lauter Tun are local pickup only. The rest I can ship (this includes the CO2...
Selling my entire All Grain brewing setup. I live in the Columbia, SC area.
Pictures - http://picasaweb.google.com/steve.easley/BrewingGear?authkey=Gv1sRgCI6qgMGuzdKERw
Custom 2-Tier Steel Brew Stand with Hurricane Burner. Made from 1.5" tube steel, welded, and painted. - $350
36qt...
Hah, typo on my part. Should be Wort Chiller. And in case you were not being facetious, its a device used to quickly cool wort down to room temperature.
Steve Easley
Columbia, South Carolina
Selling my entire All Grain brewing setup. Unfortunately I just don't have the time I thought I would to spend on this (awesome) hobby.
Pictures - http://picasaweb.google.com/steve.easley/BrewingGear?authkey=Gv1sRgCI6qgMGuzdKERw
Custom made...
Yea, I totally subscribe to that thinking now. As far as tweaking Beersmith to get me closer I am mainly doing it to understand the process better. I have always learned best by knowing whats going on under the hood.
I highly recommend trying out one of the beer software apps. Most have a free trial. Beersmith (and the others im sure) have an equipment profile that you can input all your equipment (volumes, waste, evaporation, etc). To get those numbers you can do what I did, do a mach beer session with just...
Yea, it was too high. It was set to 20.10% resulting in a 1.63 gal boil off. My measured boil off (in tests and in this batch) is only 1.5 gal. The problem cropped up when I upped the Final Volume to 5.5 for this batch. Not sure why Beersmith uses a percentage. You should be able to just enter...
/cry I know, I keep beating myself up over that. I guess not having a clue what all the measurements really meant at the time I was taking them, I just stuck with the plan, it said boil 60min, and thats what I did. Now that I understand the process and numbers much better I can react to problems...
No, it is definitely 8.11 gal boil volume (total water needed was 9.61). After looking at how Beersmith works the only other thing that would cause it to over estimate mash/sparge volume, besides deadspace, is absorption. It looks like it used 1.19 gal for my 9.9 lb grain bill. It seems for my...
Maybe someone can help me understand how to fix this for the next brew.
Problem 1
Beersmith said to achieve a 5.5 gal batch size I needed a 8.11 boil volume. But after following the recommended 3.08 gal mash in and two sparges of 3.26 gal each I ended up with 8.5 gal. What setting in...