Recent content by josh-h

I am currently drinking the first 2 beers made with the grainfather. They are great, and way less work than my previous set up.

I love the grandfather! however be aware of unfinished machining on the sharp edges of the grain basket..I was in the middle of sparging, and i accidentally knocked the basket and caught it only to realize my fingers were cut pretty good. I fortunately didn't drop it into the hot wort however. -j

Had this beer two days ago, one of the best iPa's I have had! Looking forward to brewing it.

It's not too bad. It helps that I start with pretty hot water, brew in a hot kitchen, & start ramping up the boil during sparge. It's a huge improvement over my existing pieced together systems. Best efficiency I have ever gotten as well. All in all very happy with the system.

I got mine last week, kickstarter.

I just finished my first brew day on the grainfather. Everything went great. Very pleased.

I brew in San Francisco and have a basement that stays at 65 all year long. I also have a wine/salumi/lagering room that I keep at 54. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

brewed 13 gallons of this today. Brew day went well, missed the gravity by a little 1.071 so i tossed in 1/2# corn sugar that i had left over. feel good about it. next year about this time i hope to be enjoying this great sour.

I think the beer will be fine. As long as you got conversion and hit your gravity. Way better to be under mash temp than over. And I second the blichman thermometer issue. I'm considering removing it and using the hole for a rims build.

I have been going 60 minute boil on this beer.

That's exactly what I do. Find a kit I like and the buy bulk for 5 or so batches. Then I feel like I really nail it and can start tweaking it for my equipment and taste.

First batch was w-1056, big starter and plenty of pure o2. Second batch (fermenting now) I went with London ale, huge starter, and pure o2. Hit the gravity right on the nose. Feeling really good about 2nd attempt. And believe me the first attempt doesn't suck at all.

Yeah,I'm pretty certain that I got that number directly from the brewers. It was actually 160 and I thought no way. So i went with158. It's really really close.

Thanks for the advice. I got that number from another thread regarding this particular beer. Just tasted it again and the carbonation is there and the flavor is really close,even with all the variants. It's delicious, maybe a little more bitter. Great tasting hop bomb though.

Doorman, how did the brew go?