Recent content by dfess1

These burners have seen better days to begin with. One is rusted in place. I guess I'll just replace them with the same. I was hoping for a nice stainless unit by now.

It's been a while since I've been here, and it's been a couple of years since I've brewed a beer if I'm being honest. In any event, I needed to replace the wheels on my brew rig, and after getting them squared away, realized that one of the mounts on one of my burners had snapped off. The rig...

I actually just took my smoker down to bare metal this spring. Stripped everything, inside and out. Wire wheel on your angle grinder, and hitting your grates/shelves, well lets just say I did that to one (of six), and did the rest while wearing a tyvek paint suit. It had been a while, but...

I cut a hole in the side of mine, about 1.5-2", and inserted a small piece of PVC pipe inside of the hole/glued in place. That allowed me to slide my beer lines inside the cooler when not in use, and allowed for a bit longer on the line length (where you put your kegs and where your jockey box...

Your question (increasing the ABV) is generally why it's added at flameout, so that you can get an accurate OG reading. I'm sure there's a calculation for it somewhere, but I do not know it off the top of my head.

I drink my Labatt Blue than any other beer (I play on 4 hockey teams, give me a break). It's a good summer beer, and a great tailgate beer. They have a new variant, Labatt Citra. Give it a go. Labatt Blue dry hopped with Mosaic and Citra. I like it better than All Day. Same small beer thirst...

I can't believe I have to root for the 'Canes out out of the east now. I was hoping Johannson was going to take out Marchand in their first practice after he was traded.

Rinse it well and let it soak with a metabisulfite solution to kill anything that might still be in there. then get a handle or two of the crappiest bourbon you can (heaven hill plastic handles are like 10 bucks).

Our club chooses a hop, a yeast strain, and an adjunct once a quarter. You can brew whatever you like as long as all three of those are in the beer. You get judged for how well you can pick those three out of the beer, as well as how well the beer is to begin with. It's been fun, and some beers...

lol, i just popped by here for the first time in, well, a long time. I haven't brewed a beer from start to finish in probably 3 yrs now (have 10 gal of some red ale sitting in primary since this time last year). Trying to scrape together a recipe and get one knocked out in the grainfather next...

Just food for thought, in my shop stuff gets spilled/nicked/dinged, etc. I made my top out of laminated MDF with a health coating of urethane. I built the substructure so I could easily replace the top of I needed. Benefit is it was dead nuts flat to begin with. Drilled dog holes and installed a...

or the ability to brew when it's raining out? The garage is a no brainer.

Anything can be fixed. It depends on how much money you want to dump into it.

Here's my .02. If you're going to lay out the cash to make a brewstand, I'd make it a single tier with two pumps. When I bring mine out, it's a decent amount of time investment(using all 15 gal pots). I routinely knock out 2 brews, as it's only an extra hr onto the process if you time everything...

I use flow controls coming off a black pipe manifold for each burner. Run a 20 psi regulator off the tank.