Recent content by duffbeer71

Your chloride and sulfate levels are so low if I'm reading this right, so I would definitely look into adding salts to your future brews. I have found brewersfriend.com has an excellent water calculator, that you can save your calculations to your profile and refer back to. Also has some good...

Planning on brewing a Pliny The Elder clone using the recipe from the AHA. Calculated IBUs are 205.3. Actual IBUs is 90-95. So I have done some water calculations and planning on a 2.0 sulfate/chloride ratio according to brewersfriend.com. Currently my calculation has Calcium is at 107.8...

So we have made this Caramel Apple Cider the past few years: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=292770 This year, we are making a 3 gallon batch instead of a 5. So when we got the apple cider back from the orchard, I pitched the yeast (Wyeast 4766 Cider Yeast) and forgot to add...

I wanted to add some fruit (raspberries or cherries) to an Imperial Stout I have in the fermenter and I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on adding Campden tablets to the beer to help prevent infection and further fermentation of the sugars from the raspberries? Also, I was thinking if I...

Wanted to give an update to this. Once I got the temp of the wort up to 65 degrees, I removed the heating belt from the carboy and set in the fermentation chamber with the temp controller set at 67 degrees. The next morning the fermentation was vigorous and everything looks normal. So in the...

Ha! I needed a good laugh this morning. I did I nice big yeast starter and the yeast (Wyeast 1056) was pretty fresh out of the homebrew store (was packaged on October 15). This is the 3rd time I'm doing this recipe, so I will see if there's any off flavors I haven't had in previous batches. It's...

I finished an IPA (1.061 OG) last night and put it into a chest freezer that I use as a fermentation chamber with a temperature controller. Unfortunately I forgot to check the temperature the controller was set to. That was at about 8 o'clock last night. I woke up this morning about 5:30 and for...

How long do you recommend for the tap lines from keg to tap?

I just did an "Add-On" for Beersmith with a equipment profile for Grainfather to download.

I recently made a starter with Wyeast's 3864 Canadian/Belgian yeast (Unibroue) and decided to take the temperature of the starter during fermentation. The ambient room temp was about 66-68 degrees. The starter peaked out at 77 degrees. Upon finishing, I smelled and tasted the wort and there was...

I usually go about 1 cup of Extra Light DME in a 1000mL starter. Today I decided to do an experiment and did 1/2 a cup in roughly 500mL tp see what the gravity would be and my starter had a gravity reading of about 1.078. So I did another experiment and used 3.5 oz (a little over a 1/2 a cup)...

My buddy uses that model as well, but I can't remember.

Do you use bags or jars for hop storage? Does that model have the ability to do jars?

I am looking into buying a Foodsaver, primarily so I can buy hops in bulk. I want to store them in mason jars and be able to just take out what I need and reseal the jar. I've been looking online and see different models I'm interested in, but I wanted to see if anyone has had a good experience...

You can take a large section of tin foil and put it on the top of the grain bed and that will help disperse the wort you are pouring back in.