Recent content by jmichalicek

Hey, sorry for the delays. I felt like people might think I was just being an *******, so rather than risk angering everyone I just stepped back for a bit. Wrote a bunch of stuff up here, ran through calcs several times, etc. I think I found it. Brewtarget is being weird. It appears sometimes...

Right, but in software if I (made up numbers here) plug in 13 lbs pale ale malt with a DBFG of 81%, 70% mash efficiency, and a 6 gallon target volume then should that should always show the same OG every time. The book says "The malt yields are based on 70 percent efficiency of the maximum...

I think you're misunderstanding. This is not about my real world results. When I plug the numbers from the book into an app such a Brewtarget, Brewfather, etc. with the correct target final volume, specified mash efficiency, etc. the OG the apps say should be expected is always lower than what...

I've been revisiting some of the details in my books... things I've just glossed over, accepted as "this is weird but its working for me", etc. to see if anything clicks for me which didn't when I first started brewing. One thing I noticed is that my recipes from Brewing Classic Styles come out...

I picked up a 120v Unibrau 10G system earlier this year and my 4th or 5th brew on it is going right now. The kettle and grain basket are great. Very high quality, easy to work with, and the number of ports makes for some great customizability options. I went with the 120v version because there...

A hot pepper imperial milk stout is mashing in the garage right now. My lhbs is having some supply issues and so were out of a couple of grains I wanted to use for my own recipe so I took the Triple X recipe from Brewing Classic Styles and added a couple more pounds of pale ale malt. I have way...

Their St. Bernardus Abt 12 recipe is pretty close to this one. Tons of pilsner, some dark candi syrup, and a bit of debittered black malt around Carafa II's color. I brewed it as a 3 gallon partial mash awhile back with pilsner malt and pilsner extract. I did he partial mash because even at 3...

Thanks, that is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does look like only the one red pin gets connected and the other it looks like is under the controller where mine was. So that means the controller unit itself is just broken. I tracked down a lot of 6 of the correct Ringer RC-210M units...

@FswBG Thanks for that, I was actually looking for the other end, though. Where those wires connect to the controller. I've got one red and one silver connected and a red flapping loose which seems like it might be the cause of my issues. I'm not sure, though, since there's also not an obvious...

I'm in a bit of a bind with my Unibrau 10g 120v system at the moment. Power to the pump works, power to the heating element works in boil mode, but the display does not come on and in mash mode there's no power to the element. If anyone has this system with the ETC controller, could you please...

I know this is unlikely since it probably makes the rest of the Unibrau system harder to sell, but what are the chances you would be willing to sell just the ez-boil there and ship it to Richmond, Va if I paid shipping? Baltimore/DC is just far enough away that I'd rather avoid the drive without...

I never followed up on my last attempt at this, either. The final batch I used 2 Tsp fennel seed, crushed it, and added directly to the wort with about 15 minutes left in the boil. It definitely needed to get a little age on it. I am always impatient and keg after 2-3 weeks and force carb hard...

The simpler recipe turned out really good and everyone who has tried it has been impressed (and asked for more, the true test of if they liked it or not), but the fennel did not come through as much as I want. I believe I should have crushed the fennel seed plus I used a tea/spice infuser ball...

Brewed this second version successfully. Smells great, but the fennel seed sure was strong in my pre-fermentation sample. Hopefully it'll mellow out a bit over several weeks here or the flavors will generally meld better as fermentation goes on. As it currently stands, I could have used 1/2 as...

I received an awesome gift the other day, but now I need to figure out the best usage of it and plan a few brews. I am a fan of darker yeast and malt forward beers, less so of hop forward beers in most cases. I brew a lot of porters, stouts, brown ales and particularly london brown ales...