Recent content by daveotero

Awesome story man! Congratulations!

Looks like Brewmaster's Warehouse has them... Not too bad a price either. http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/product/0101952/simcoe-pellets

I watch the local brewing club pages, even though I don't belong to any.

I picked up one of these a few months ago from my LHBS. I love it and always pick it over my Better Bottle if it's free. Nice sturdy straight sides and the walls seam thicker than the BB.

Any plans for triple or quad regulators? I just starting buying parts for my keezer build and am in the market. Edit: Or would you consider selling the connectors to build your own?

I just brewed a Rye IPA as well and noticed the same thing. I have a "ribcage chiller" and the film was connecting the rings over an inch apart as I was pulling it out of the wort. I bet that's gonna make for some pretty massive mouthfeel.

Subscribed! I'm brewing Denny's Rye IPA for the first time tomorrow and the Denny's Fav yeast its whirling away on the stir plate as I type.

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Wouldn't work for me and I melted the stove knobs and discolored part off the stove top. I built a heat stick and that along with my 2600 watt canning element can get 12 gallons to a solid boil. I love the heat stick.

Readings during the boil are useful for making sure you're boil off rate is where it should be. I brew indoors and still notice a difference between winter brewing and summer brewing. Check gravity with your refrac at 30 min and audjust your boil if needed.

Kind of what I was thinking. You would need to mimic oxygen exposure at packaging. I don't think the effects would show up right away.

I have been wanting to learn to spot oxidation flavors as well. Next time I bottle I'm going to leave a few bottles uncapped until I'm done, remove the tubing from the racking cane, attach a sterile filter, and start blowing bubbles. I think that ought to do the trick after a few weeks :)

My interest in an android brewing platform would be mostly for brew day utilities. The ability to export a beer xml file to my dropbox then just crack it open on my phone and have timers ready to go would be awesome. Ability to tweak thinks like your bittering addition for the alpha acids of...

That's what I did, but I used compressions fittings after I saw that some people we're having trouble with "stainless steel" hose clamps rusting. http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz332/daveotero/IMAG0799.jpg

I add grain to water because I preheat my tun with strike temp + 10F water first. I'm only on all-grain batch 5 but I've never had a dough ball. Mash thin, 1.3qt per pound or more and stir well. I use a giant wisk rather than a paddle and it works great. I ordered my from Rebel Brewer but you...