Recent content by jeff_2506

I'm just excited to get a medal. It was my first competition ever, took silver. I can't wait to get it!

HOLLA! Campfire Barleywine takin' in silver! My first ever homebrew competition

Liquid Courage and all other Maricopa Brewers, I'd be happy to head up something like a Maricopa Brewers group. I know Liquid is interested, anyone else? I'll also put a post on 85239. Chimone, we'll accept people from Sierra Vista if you'd want to join.

I'm depressed I can't make it this year. *sighs*

Any updates on the results? I entered my barleywine

Yeah I'm not worried about the irish moss much. The oversparging, I'm just hoping it's not too astringent and that the gelatin will help remove some of that if there is. In addition, the gelatin will help clear the beer.

First brewday with my new equipment today. I was excited that my efficiency didn't suffer, and things went nice and smooth...I was so proud watching it all work. OOps, gauking at my new brew set up I didn't pay attention to sparge volume. When I realized it, I took a reading of my...

It's all good. The pores were closed from touching the stones. I boiled them for about 1 minute and tested them out in water, and they worked great. I can't wait to try this out on something real like WORT instead of water lol

I'm curious, I will boil the stones to see if it improves. HOwever, I'm wondering if my regulator is bad? I have it cranked all the way open, but not much results. I'll boil, if I see bad results, I'll consider returning the regulator. How vigorous is the surface of the wort when it hits...

I FINALLY decided to upgrade my wort aeration from using the piece you attach to a drill, to pumping pure O2 into my wort. Just received my oxynator today, bought a new O2 tank, and tested it in water to see how it works. The O2 comes out very slow through the diffusion stones, just small...

My wife asks me that all the time...she say's there will ALWAYS be something I'm building, or buying to make my brewing experiece just a little better :D

25 months thats it? You better pick up the pace, I really don't think you even qualify to be called a noob :fro:

I'm brewing a pale ale on Sunday. YIPPEE

That's what I do when I do it.

Here's my resume: 2A. German Pilsner (Pils) 3A. Vienna Lager 3B. Oktoberfest 6A. Cream Ale 6C. Kölsch 8C. Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) 10A. American Pale Ale 10C. American Brown ALe 11C. Northern English Brown 12B. Robust Porter 14B. American IPA 15A...