Recent content by jtratcliff

You pet your kitty, I'll pet mine :p

This is why I do it, too...

I just put my bag inside the malt pipe. Lift and set the malt pipe as usual, then when most of wort has dripped out, I pull the (the now much lighter) bag for a dunk sparge. No hoisted needed. Though, I do use a 1 ft step stool to help with the lifting the bag out of the raised pipe. If...

Some of them are part of my personal growth as a beer drinker... Growing up in Appalachia, Bud was synonymous with beer. Sam Adams was my 1st discovery of flavors other than the corn/rice of American light lager. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale taught me that some hop bitterness could be OK with a...

Almost done with this one... bit of history, bit of sociology... Pretty interesting

Shouldn't this be in the soup thread? :p

Olive oil has been tried https://beersmith.com/blog/2015/09/14/olive-oil-instead-of-aeration-for-beer-brewing/

Absolutely... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/real-wort-starters-overview.679019/

flaxseed oil... good choice. https://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/

Yeah, since I have the bag, I still do a pretty fine crush with my corona mill... same crush as I was using when I was doing straight stovetop BIAB in a 10G kettle before my AiO... If I get stuck I can always lift the bag. But so far no issues. I *have* been sparging with a gallon or two that I...

I line my malt pipe w/ BIAB bag and just throw everything in... no rice hulls. Slowly lower the pipe in, give a minute or two to fully wet the grains (my pipe has no side perforations, so the water has to percolate up through the grain bed), then a gentle stir. No doughballs. Just started...

I just did 2 batches on my Klarstein AiO system... I haven't run too many batched through it yet, so I'm still tweaking my process. But for the first time, I "underlet" by heating my strike water then slowly lowering the grain in my bag-lined malt pipe into the kettle... I didn't go glacially...

I just now ran across the recent updates to this thread but I *did* happen to brew one today... Not the cheapest brew I've ever made, but I did use up a lot of older grains that I've been needing to get rid of... An APA based on @Yooper 's House Ale recipe...