Recent content by FlyBoyKnight

Reviving an old thread to see how the COVID life has changed anyone’s brew habits. Anyone else “having trouble” kicking kegs in this age of little to no social gatherings to aid in beer consumption? Brew Setup: 10 Gallon SS Brew Kettle for BIAB with single 150K BTU Propane burner. Chest...

I have 3 one gallon and 2 five gallon paint strainer bags I keep around the brewery because they are extremely useful for things like this. They make great filtering mediums and REUSABLE hop / other ingredient sacks. I make small batch fruit / "country" wine batches as well and the larger paint...

I dump the hop pellets into the beer loose and use a 1 gallon nylon paint strainer bag from Home Depot and a rubber band / cable tie. I put the intake end of the autosiphon into the strainer bag and secure it with the rubber band. This works very well as a filter medium for keeping hop matter...

Interesting. I used S-04 for the first time in a cider batch in Feb and it finished way down at 0.993 FG (7.2% ABV). A bit dry for my sweet cider / mead tastes. Admittedly, I left it in the primary too long but that shouldnt have dropped it down any further than normal. After a bit of...

I started cold crashing when I started kegging last year. My first NON-cold crashed brew I kegged had a good 2-3 pints of yeast trub in it and was super cloudy. After that experience, and my usual "HBT-research-to-fix-a-mistake-I-could-have-avoided-in-the-first-place" routine, my cold...

Our LHBS in Baltimore, Maryland has flooded and they need help recovering. I only wish I could donate more to them! Please check them out on GoFundMe and show your love for Brian and Jill! Below is the text from their GoFundMe page: "Nepenthe Homebrew has flooded again. On July 30, a sudden...

2016 round up (since Sept) - 5 Gallons Bavarian Hefe - 4 Gallons Oktoberfest - 5 Gallons Peanut Butter Chocolate Stout - 5 Gallons 2-Row / Cascade SMaSH - 5 Gallons Maris Otter / Galaxy SMaSH 31,970.5 + 24 = 31,994.5 Personal 2015 Total: 92 Gallons!

Collins 4200 FMS.

Airline pilot for 3 years, cargo pilot for 3 years, been flying for a total of 11 years. Currently driving the MIGHTY Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ). Flying is definitely a bug you catch, just like brewing and I still love it after 11 years. No matter how long the ground stop, how long the...

I stir the primed beer in the bottling bucket before filling any bottles but I have forgotten to do so before. Most of the time, it is fine and goes completely unnoticed. I have had one batch in particular that was noticibly uneven in carb level. Enough so that I had to warn friends who I gave...

Been a while since I contributed (May). Here they are! - 5 Gallons EdWort's Bavarian Hefeweizen - 5 Gallons Revy's Belgian Blond (Leffe Clone) - 4 Gallons Heady Topper clone (BYO magazine) - 5 Gallons "Victory Amber Ale" - 5 Gallons "Milky Way" Milk Stout - 5 Gallons Maris Otter / Citra...

I had two or three iterations of my mash tun that all leaked. I had no drain hole in the $3 cooler I got from Goodwill so I had to drill / dremmel my own. After a few annoying iterations, I ended up dremmeling out the outer hole and insulation big enough to fit a piece of PVC into the hole and...

+ 3.5 gallons "Kama Citra" IPA = 10849 gallons

9539 + 4 Gallons EdWort's Robust Porter 9543 Gallons

My stir plate. Old PC fan with its own 3 place speed control switch. Old cellphone charger, spare washer, + pack of magnets from Lowes ($3). The fan mount from the tower I took it out of houses the fan nicely while providing a platform to place the starter flask on (I removed the center...