Recent content by frankieboy007

For sale 2 tier 3 keggle brew rig. Hot liquor tank w copper HERMS coil, mash tun w 12" stainless false bottom, stand and dip tube, boil kettle w copper dip tube. Also have 2 10" banjo burners I purchased but never installed I will throw in.Very sturdy, make me an offer, I really need to open up...

I'd also like to know who has a group buy going, my son is getting married in April and wants me to brew all of the beer, lol.

For the HLT, are the elements 110 or 220?? I've already got my HERMS rig mostly set up, and have been thinking of doing electric for the hot water and sparge, which would be extremely handy, not to mention a gas saver. Also, how did you get your kegs so shiny? Great rig, and great post for the...

For the HLT, are the elements 110 or 220?? I've already got my HERMS rig mostly set up, and have been thinking of doing electric for the hot water and sparge, which would be extremely handy, not to mention a gas saver. Also, how did you get your kegs so shiny? Great rig, and great post for the...

Brewed batch of Doppelsticke today, 3rd attempt at this style. Scored 42 @ FOAM Cup in November, though this recipe has been tweaked slightly. Hoping this will be even better!! :D

This isn't a big beer, 1.055 OG. I want to cold condition it for at least a month as I will be pulling a few bottles from it for MCAB XV, which is in May (no specific date yet).

Long time homebrewer finally getting my shot at kegging. My question for those with some experience is: When do you normally keg, after primary, or should I perform a secondary? This is a batch of Northern German Altbier, and has been in primary for 2 weeks.

One thing that might help, if it wasn't brought up, is to pull the wort to your boil pot slowly, like one gallon every 12 minutes or so. I regularly pull 7.5 to 8 gal of wort, so this should be at least an hour to hour and a half process. My efficiency is always 80-85%, though I do crush my own...

Depends on what style you are priming. Hefes an dunkelweizens usually carb around 3 volumes of C02, requiring close to 6 oz of sugar to accomplish this. My dunkelweizen took 5.8 oz of table sugar, haven't had any issues. The temp you place the bottles in after priming might also have an effect...

Double decoction Maibock, only 5 left in the bottle for competition in November and March, lol!!

Had a discussion about beer freshness with a fellow brewer, the gist (or grist, if you prefer) being whether a dunkelweizen brewed in Sept would still be good and fresh for a competition in March. I brewed a recipe that garnered me first place in the Bluebonnet Brewoff this past March, but it...

I don't see anything suggesting how long this was in the primary fermenter (1 week, 2 weeks??). I just bottled a weizenbock myself (primary for 13 days, then bottled), though I pitched directly onto the yeast cake of a previously brewed dunkelweizen. OG was 1.080, FG 1.016, so I had proper...

Brewed a batch of Weizenbock, double decoction, brew day went beautifully, other than my gas bottle crapping out on me. Had a backup on hand though, disaster averted, lol. During the brewday, bottled a batch of Dunkelweizen, then poured the cooled weizenbock wort directly on top of the yeast...

Bottled a batch of Northern German Altbier last night, just in time for the Dixie Cup, sweet!!

My HERMS unit, still working out the kinks, but it looks cool, lol!!