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For those wondering the specialty grains include .5 lbs of pilsner malt, .5 lbs of honey malt, .5 lbs of aromatic malt. Hops are 1oz nugget at 45mins, .5oz nugget at 5mins and .5oz nugget at flame out and 1oz crystal at flame out. This should give a projected IBU of 47ish. Yeast will be...

Hello everyone. I'm getting ready to do a rye pale ale and need a little help. I'll be using 3.3lbs of rye LME along with 3lbs of pilsner DME, then 1.5 lbs of specialty malts for steeping. I usually do a longer steep (around 60mins at 155 degrees) with a grain bag. I also picked up 0.5lbs of...

OK guys (and perty ladies)...i want to know your favorite brews. This is like the Oscars of Beers. We've got categories. I want... Favorite Brew (best overall) Favorite Homebrew (include name and style if applicable) Favorite MicroBrew Favorite Microbrewery (overall best microbrewery...

agreed, and yes you can fit the big 42 in a fridge/freezer. but to be honest its all about going the extra mile. someone else mentioned something to the tune of not understanding the desire for the complication and exspense of a glycol system, and i wrote a lengthy reply. i've copied it down...

very good idea :tank:

i'm lucky in that i decided to go into the medical field instead of brewing...which isn't necessarily lucky in itself, however she knows that I gave very serious consideration of making brewing a career and possibly starting my own someday. i told her that since i gave of brewing as a career, i...

I really like the idea of using the dual temp controller. So with this you could set upper and lower temp limits to your fermentation? Would you one of those heater wraps (like a heating pad)? It sounds like with that set up on my idea you could control the temp even more precisely...

Yeah I was thinking the same. I just put a pic of a standard fridge/freezer combo for illustration purposes. But I would probably use a medium sized chest freezer and a large heavy food grade plastic container (like the cube style) in it. That way you could plumb the stainless tubing into it...

ahhh....both excellent ideas. i didn't even think about the copper and corrosion, and setting the freezer at just above freezing should negate the whole freezing issue all together. I just figured this could provide a significantly cheaper set up for glycol cooling of possible multiple...

I was wondering about doing some sort of temp control on a blichmann conical for lagering, but being poor as I am I do not have a blichmann to fool around with haha. but my idea was to utilize an old freezer to cool a glycol tank, and a pump hooked to a temp controller to circulate cold glycol...