Recent content by dstebor

Remember, I was talking about using these: ??? Where did you get those hop balls?

I've been following this thread having purchased the pump can at Lowe's and picking up a beer out post from my LHBS but it didn't thread on easy so I've been following for better ideas. Everyone has some great ideas but none worked for me Until my Ah-ha moment. Take the beer out fitting push...

I have my keggle all set up and was wondering what's a good way to drain. i've seen side pick ups with a whirlpool or straight off the bottom middle and some sort of filter (where can i get a stainless scrubby?) I generally use a hop blocker made up of grain mesh bag and i'm now doing all grain...

I have a 5 gal round cooler for mashing and used a 1/2 cpvc pipe for my manifold. Works just fine. I recently picked up a 10 gal round cooler. I can set up the valving and just move the manifold to either mash tun OR make a new manifold so here's my question(s) will the 1/2 tube that takes...

I have a 5 gal round cooler for mashing and used a 1/2 cpvc pipe for my manifold. Works just fine. I recently picked up a 10 gal round cooler. I can set up the valving and just move the manifold to either mash tun OR make a new manifold so here's my question(s) will the 1/2 tube that takes...

I'm having the same problem with my turkey fryer burner, el cheapo cast burner leaves soot all over the bottome of my boil pot, The air shutter disk if fully open, I may try raising my pot up some to see if that helps, good suggestion thanks

somewhere in all the interweb of homebrew i read some one put in 1 1/2 oz of orange zest at the end of the boil and would have put in more for next time. LHBS sells sweet orange peel in 2 oz bag. I'm going to put it in an American Pale

Yea I saw that, but not right off but you can tell there are more CO2 bubbles

Slide looks great, even I can figure it out, would love to see the entire presentation!

This is way cool, small batches means more variety in the refer :mug: although i'd probably stick to extract but wondering too about boil times and hop utilization diferences in small batches

Thanks for this post very informative, i'm planning on putting my barleywine in keg tomorrow after two weeks dry hopping in secondary.

i'm going into my laundry room to stare at my secondary full of barleywine

just bottled an Amber Ale