Recent content by dshaggy

I did some web searching, but couldn't find much information. I'm curious, could use my Barley Crusher for grinding wheat berries into flour? Also wondering about corn and other grains, and whether the gap can be set small enough. Thanks.

Keep an Epi pen on you.

I got a 50' 1/2 inch chiller from nybrewsupply.com for less than $100 shipped. You might be able to build it for a little cheaper, but everything is soldiered and ready to go. It chills 6 gallons down to pitching temps in 10-15 minutes. Plus I wont have to worry if I ever start doing 10 gallon...

I use about half a scoop in a 5 gallon bucket when I'm removing bottle labels. I use even less for normal cleaning because higher concentrations are harder to rinse. A little seems to go a long way.

If it comes with everything in the pic, it's an awesome deal.

Kids are pretty smart sometimes. I save my yeast in regular 12 oz bottles, but put an airlock on each. That way I don't have to worry about bottle bombs, even though it's probably fine to cap them. I also save about 1 liter of wort each time I brew and freeze it. Making starters is easy, I just...

After using oxyclean, you're going to want to rinse it off the bottles (inside and out) before putting beer in them. You'll also need to sanitize them. Read some of the threads on here about cleaners and sanitizers.

Yeah, stay all extract, it is easier...

The $20 or $25 it costs for Beersmith is well worth it.

I've been making starters in an empty 2-liter bottle for several months. It's been working great.

I would say go all grain. It's easy, and way more fun....

Yeah, the beer has to go through the three tier system (brewery to distributor to vendor). But maybe this won't apply if they have this "government shutdown" they've been talking about.

Pour it through a strainer. Filter all the crap out. Introduce O2.

Yeah, you can't really go wrong with a starter kit. Even if you do go on to all grain, nothing in the kit is really "wasted". You'll just keep buying more and more things lol. You will eventually want a wort chiller, but when I did extract I just used frozen water bottles. I got my wort chiller...

I use a CPVC manifold in a converted 52q cooler and have never had a stuck sparge. I usually don't even bother to vorlauf. It was about $5 to make, I batch or fly sparge depending on how I feel.