Recent content by fast900t

Well - at least it's a happy beer...

I'm surprised to see nobody's kept up the thread this year... I've done three spruce beer batches so far - all extract brews, always with the new tips in the spring, and always adding the spruce at the beginning of the boil. They've always turned out great! Not very sprucey, but very herbal...

How do you keep the hot water from stratifying in the tank? Do you have an agitation system, or a recirculation system?

So how is your HLT set up - do you heat in the kettle and just store it in the tank, or does the HLT have it's own heating system?

Some really nice systems here... My wife and I just transitioned from extract to all grain, and here's the setup so far: We preheat water on propane for speed. HLT is electric with ETC automation - the hand mixer rednecked on top just blew up today, but I just received a recirc pump the other...