Recent content by Gonefishing

I wouldn't mind being in your location for a few days... I like my pin locks and at $15/each, I'd own quite a few more. Of course, then I'd have to buy another old freezer and a temp controller, buy more ingredients, use more electricity and brew more. I would, however, have a pipeline to be...

I'm going to clean up behind it so I can snap some pictures without a lot of clutter in the shot

I like that idea, so I did exactly that tonight. Managed to avoid a boilover, but it was getting scary. Then I started the timer and added the hops.

Well, I kind of stretched the weekend a bit, but I brewed last night and tonight.

Brewed a smash...didn't use enough water so I made a beer that's going to be too hoppy for my tastes I fear.

No, this one is a Vienna/Cascade Smash. Just went out and checked the OG again now that I know the wort is cool... it's at 1.062. Thinking about adding some boiled water to it. However, I have no clue how much I could add. I'm thinking maybe a gallon?

I just ran some numbers in a brewing water calculator...I did start at least 1.8 gallons too low.

Oh,and except for volume, it's not far off the numbers... expected 1.050 and got 1.054. I guess I made another short, probably too hoppy, batch.

This one is a puzzler. I think I was within maybe 5 minutes of the correct time... but, by the time I got in the garage, there had been a boil over, and that tripped the GFCI (which was a real test of it, glad to be 100% sure it works!). When I turned everything back on, the boil came back in...

The second batch on my electric brewery and up until a few minutes ago, it went pretty well... then the boil started, I got the hops in a bag in there and came in to eat. I had set a timer on my phone, which I left plugged in in the garage where the brewery is. Went back out to find the phone...

Brewing two smash beers today. Moving the batch in the fermenter to a keg, and doing some serious cleaning. I hope.

Only 5 so far. =2725.5

And the other two came today...a dry hopper and a bunch of o-rings for all my kegs.

I got the first of my three items from Amazon today...4 ounces of beer line cleaner.

Took my first trip to Maine Brewing Supply in Portland and bought some Cascade and Saaz. Also picked up some US-05. I'm planning on making two Vienna smash brews.