Recent content by Iamslow

What are you using as your fermenter? Bucket, carboy, conical? Bucket - hard to get clean beer out the little spigot with all the slurry down there. carboy - you can get clean beer out and you save yourself extra work from not having to clean another carboy. conical - you wouldn't be...

I'm still struggle nailing ph (hasn't affected taste of beer), am too cheap to buy RO, but trying to improve my processes. Is the link on your signature the name of your personal brewery or is it public? Either way that's a great idea naming your brewery. Time for me to think of something...

Did the same thing except I used legos to build a base up around the fan and get the correct height.

Did the same thing except I used legos to build a base up around the fan and get the correct height.

+1 for the equal double batch sparge. For me it's also easier to nail your pre-boil volumes with this method. I also prefer a slower runoff, but like another poster mentioned it really is all about nailing your pre-boil gravity. So if my readings are on and I know how much sugar I have then...

Don't forget to consider cold crashing that bad boy for a day or two before bottling.

I've screwed up a lot of beer and it all was drinkable... well, except for the stuff that ended up on the ceiling, wall, and carpet. Wife kept slapping me as I licked the wall. :D

If you're set on 1 gallong batches okay, but in my limited experience 5 gallons batches even seem small. You'll be surprised how hard it will be to keep up with consumption. :D IMO there is way too much effort in the brew process to make a single gallon, plus you will have to be extra careful...

Sorry it has taken me so long to post the result. I just had a baby girl and I fogot how much time the little ones take up. Eventually I did make it to the garage and brewed up a batch of Ed Wort's Haus with Citra instead of Cascade. Taking the advice from this forum I fermented in the bath...

Yeast has been really fresh, typically a week or two old, but I've always wanted to give teh US-05 a try since I never heard anyone have issues with that type. I will brew something simple this weekend and post an update of how it goes. If all else fails, I may become a follower of...

tre9er - do you think a bathtub full of water sitting around 68 would hold the internal temp of the fermenting beer down as the yeast are doing their thing creating the heat or is that heat natural? Wife is going to love taking up the bathtub, but I need my beer and she does love to drink it...

Mash temps for my last brew were spot on. I have missed by two degrees in the past, but only on the low side. You did get me thinking, how do you know if your thermometer is accurate. Mine hits 213 with boiling water, but that's about the only way I could think of testing it. I wish my...

First beer I've ever seen that you can hold sideways and stays in the glass. That's definitely a keeper :)

Gents, I really am slow and can't seem to tackle this fermentation hurdle I keep running into. I have brewed both Extract and All Grain brews and cannot get my beer to ferment down to the correct final gravity. https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/images/smilies/mad.gif All brew sizes are 5 to 5.5...

that's what I was thinking. Thanks for posting your report.