Recent content by Hank_McGee

Hahahaha! Amen to that.

Hey, as of right now I have a decent brewery essentials precision hydrometer set. Although I am looking for the absolute best of the best, done a bit of research. But, I want to hear everyone's personal experience with their hydrometers. Commercial breweries specifically. Looking forward to hear...

Northern Brewer has some great prices for bulk hops as well, great reliable shipping and very fast. prices such as 14.99 to 1 lb cascade compared to 14.50 to 1 lb bremasters warehouse, so they are about the same price, so good options out there =) im personally looking for somewhere I can buy my...

Thanks! Do you have any suggestions on brand or kind of food saver/ what price an things I should be looking for and also just shop online? I live in a small mountain town so not much stuff is available to me besides Walmart and target about 15 miles away and Costco 60 miles away :)

I assume you are doing probably 5 gallon batches, for the most simplified set of equipment I would highly suggest a 10 gallon stainless steel kettle thick, 2 makes it easier but not necessary, a 10 gallon MLT mine is amazing and worth the buy, I bought one pre setup from Midwest I believe with a...

John Palmer is an excellent source, also The Joy of Homebrewing is a very good source for all things from extract to all grain, read up on mashing details and watch plenty of videos of "how to mash" on youtube, I know it helped me a great deal when I switched from extract to all grain =), are...

Hi everybody =), so I am looking to more or less stock up on some hops because my LHBS is up to an hour and a half away, sooo.. as you can guess not a trip I like to do everytime I want to brew =P. So, my idea is to stock 5 to 10 oz of some of my favorite hops, Willamette, no brewer, fuggles...

When you set alarms to go off every 3 hours in the night just to check on new brews to make sure they don't need anything :tank:

You have 150 bottles of beer ready :D ... Another 10 gallons in primaries, 10 gallons in secondaries, 3 more 5 gal recipes planned and you're thinking what else should I make?

Hi! Im hoping to get a little help converting an extract recipe to an all grain recipe. I kind of understand the basics of converting it but would like to check my math with the general brewing public! =D Recipe: 4 lbs. mountmellick irish stout kit 3 lbs. light malt extract 1.5...

The only information i could get out of my local water department is that the hardness averages medium hard around 80 mg/L and the alkalinity averages 66-75 mg/L. they dont actually record the calcium and magnesium there.

Hi, so i do not know much of the sciences of water but am trying to learn, i have made up a recipe and figured that my tap water, i live in the rockies in colorado so i am trying to use just my local water this time, has a pH of 5.4/5.5 when not boiled or heated and strained through brita...

I have read a 10 gal is a very reasonable size for 5 gal, you can upgrade to 7.5 gal or 10 gal batches if properly done, but also leaves it so that when i do want to make larger batches i wont have to upgrade a small size just to do so. Feels reasonable to me but of course i am the newbie here...

you bring an excellent point haha, i might just have to stick with an HTL, and shipping won be too much of an issue, im also going to buy a bunch of ingredients to stock up and i think i may have a free ship over like 300 so..