Recent content by DickyBenfield

Hello Fellow Brewers, I really want to build a fermentor chiller to control temps. I live in Florida and its pretty warm here, though I do keep my apartment pretty cool (70 - 73). I've been thinking of building one of the water based chillers that pumps water from a cooler of ice water. My...

Hello Fellow Brewers, So this week, I picked up a stainless steel air diffuser, inline hepa air filter and an aquarium air pump. I also picked up some air line/tubing for the pump. Its pretty small. Maybe 1/8th inch? the diffuser and filter are bigger, maybe 1/4 inch? So what kind of adapters...

I can't find the foam sheets? Went to Home Depot and Lowes. Looked, couldn't find them, asked the employees and they looked at me like I was stupid. I am sure I saw them in these stores up in NC, but where I'm at now, they don't seem to be a stocked item?

So I picked up a 2 micron stainless steel diffusion stone and an inline HEPA filter today. Tomorrow I plan to pick up an aquarium air pump and some tubing and use the setup to aerate my wort. But I'm not sure what size pump to use? It seems that rather than an actual measurement like how much...

unionrdr, Thanks again. I had not been continuing to stir throughout the boil. I will definitely try that as well. caioz1jp, Thank you again too. I'll definitely give it a go on my brew this weekend. I definitely want to go to an outdoor propane burner and full volume boil, but that will...

caioz1ip, yes, I boil about 2.5 - 3.0 gallons, then top off to 5 gallons at the end. That is sort of what I am thinking. I think it completely desolves, but the fact is 7 - 8 pounds of extract in 2.5 - 3 gallons is much more dense than the same amount of extract in 5 - 6 gallons, so it stands to...

At the rate this seems to be fermenting, that may take a while, but I will try to be patient ;) but I may have to brew on Sat finished or not... See I ran out of homebrew Sunday night so I'm starting to twitch... lol...

Thanks everyone. I will reply more later, but I will say for now, I have been very deliberate and careful about not scorching, but it keeps happening. I turn the burner off and remove it from the burner, I let it sit for probably about a minute stirring to ensure there aren't even hotspots...

Thank you both. Points well taken. I will look into getting a scale soon. As for this starter, I have been swirling it up when I am able, probably only about 8 times since I made it. There were no bubbles to be seen anywhere, and I was looking closely. However, when I got home from work today...

For now, I am forced to use a very cheap/thin SS brewpot on an electric stove top. For now, I also do strictly extract (usually with steeping grains) but no mini-mash or all-grain. I've found that no matter how careful I am, some of the sugars scortch where the burner touches the pot (in a well...

I know this is probably over asked and I think I know what I have to do, but I'll ask if anyone has any thoughts or not just the same... I made my first starter Monday night (7/23 @ 9PM). It was with Wyeast 1272 American Ale II yeast. I took the pack out of the fridge and smacked it. After...