Recent content by Flynz

Dropped in to my local HBS and bought ingredients for an upcoming brew session. I failed to get the Wyeast and hops into the fridge once I returned home and realized my mistake 48 hours later. They're in there now, but what damage if any have I done to either package for their viability due...

These are my second year hop plants, spaced 3' apart and they are now up to 18' and climbing. Some plant side arms are about to reach their neighbor plants and I'm about to have a big tangled mess. Any thought on what to do about it?

I appreciate the responses to my post. A bit over my head at times, but nothing that I should be too concerned about regarding the overall quality of my water. I'll continue on to learn about my water and how it relates to brewing using the online calculators. Thanks for your valued time...

Ignore the imbalance signal and move on I can do. If there are errors or non measured charged species it makes one wonder about the accuracy of the overall report in general.

I had Ward Labs run a test of my "unsoftened" drinking water from my well in CT. I was inputting the lab results into the Bru'N Water Spreadsheet and it flags a warning that my water is unbalanced, but I can't find any info on what it means or possible corrections. A chemist I am not, so I need...

So I tried boiling the "stone" for :15, still unable to even blow air through it. Think of the smallest, toughest balloon you tried blowing up as a kid and were unable, that is what I have here. Certainly a bigger aquarium pump couldn't do it either. I guess it's either cheap throw away type...

Yup, gave it some thought too. However, I don't think for my stone it would work, I can't even get it to work by blowing into it so I think an upgraded aquarium pump still wouldn't have the needed output. Let us know how you make out.

The aquarium air pump has no data plate to show it's output. It's nothing more than a cheap $10 pump from the pet store.

Hey guys, picked up a S.S. 2 micron air stone from NB and an aquarium air pump from the pet store for aerating my wort. Straight from the plastic bag the stone came in, then on to the tubing and the air pump to test it in a glass of water... nothing. I tried blowing into the tube, again...

A W, check your PMs.