Recent content by darkstar79

I love my barley crusher- it works great

As long as there are no city ordinances against height of poles you have nothing to worry about. Its your property as long as it doesn't create such an eyesore that it brings down the value of their home because its next to yours do whatever you want. Especially because its the backyard why...

go to perfect brewing supply in Libertyville, not too far from where you are at.

I have used the Fermcap before and it worked GREAT. Then I stopped because I started to get worried about putting the silicone is something I was drinking. Now just as it starts to get close to the top of the kettle I just turn the heat to low, wait for it to break and then just adjust the heat...

since I purchased my plate chiller I have used hop sacks. Before that i would just throw them in the boil. So far, i have not noticed any difference as far as the utilization of the hops, but i also have only brewed three times with it. After I'm finished with it I have been pouring some pbw...

did anyone get these yet? I ordered the first week of December and still have not received them

How does this crush look? Ive only used this Barley crusher twice now and I want to make sure the crush is good.

what did you use to sanitize it? the campden tablets?

thanks for posting! I accidentally just broke mine last week so this worked out well. The old ones were super thin so hopefully they did improve that a little on these

I have a 1300ml starter in a 2000ml flask fro a dunkelweizen Im brewing today. My question is since this is the first time I have used a stir plate vs just making a starter is how long can I keep it aerating on the sitr plate? It has been there for about 15 hours now. I dont want to over- do...

when I made my fresh hop ale there had to be some critters in there from pulling them right off the vine- they're fine they add protein lol

I picked up some clear vinyl braided tubing at home depot to go from the hot wort to the wort chiller. Will this type of tubing be sufficient for the transfer? Both local homebrew shops did not have high temp tubing in stock at the time so one guy recommended just buying it from the hardware...

can anyone give me a suggestion on what to buy at bargainfittings? I couldn't find any garden hose fitting at their website, unless its just a regular 1/2 nut. for the fittings and hoses i put together so far I am looking at around $70 does that seem like a lot for plumbing?

I decided to spring on the 30 plate wort chiller from keg cowboy, but I could really use some help on figuring out which fitting I need and was thinking of ordering them from bargainfittings. The chiller has 1/2 MPT male threads on it. I am really bad at figuring out which ones will work best...