Recent content by Jukas

So I live in northern ca and we evacuated back in oct due to the tubs fire. Apparently my beer freezer got unplugged shortly after the evac and never got plugged back in. I haven’t been brewing the past year due to life/kid/work stuff so I never noticed this until yesterday. Obviously the...

Or the no riding mower is the perfect amount of effort to justify a post yard work shower beer!

I knew how it was going to end just by looking at the thumbnail. Great story, but now I have to go to the apple store to figure out why my phones gone so blurry

I didn't think Ozzy had a more than a moderate prey drive until he saw his first squirrel. This was taken about 10 seconds before it bolted and he damn near took me off my feet trying to chase it.

Yeah, I get the whole "taste, sweeten, taste, adjust" option. I was just hoping for something a little more mathematically based that doesn't require multiple small additions to the batch which would provide a vector to contamination.

I have a cider that's sitting just under 8% abv and finished at 1.002 that's very dry and tart. I'd like to back-sweeten it up a bit, but I can't find any estimates of the specific gravity of the wine conditioner. Most wine conditioners state to add 1-4oz per gallon but don't list their sg...

I have a batch of cider going and it's too warm in the house and too cold in the garage to ferment without some temp control. So I'm running into a problem I'm not really sure how to correctly troubleshoot. I have my brewhemoth setup with the ic running to a cooler with an aquarium heater...

So I'm just starting to get back to brewing after a couple years away and my slant library is pretty neglected. I'll just toss the common stuff like wlp001 and start over, but I have some slants that id prefer not to lose like harvested Conan and Bells. The slants are looking a bit ragged and...

Right now in my ears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=486Yd1uhXcE Pretty great mixture of EDM & Trap. I'm a big fan of the entire album

Looking at the equipment I have on hand, my spare cooler is a 30qt, allowing for up to 20% loss to headspace and displacement we're looking at a 6 gal glycol bath. Even though I only do 5.5-12 gal batches I suspect that wouldn't be enough volume to keep up with the heat exchange from a...

For those of you who went the DIY glycol route. Is it possible to use the glycol system to supply the cold side of a plate chiller instead of using a garden hose? Can the glycol system keep the coolant temps down enough with the return coming in hot from the plate chiller and does the propylene...

I'm not super familar with that style, but I think you're running low on IBU if you wish to avoid it being too malty/sweet. Someone with more style familiarty can correct me, but I believe the primary difference in a baltic porter is that it's cooler fermented typically with a lager yeast and...

I still haven't decided which route to go. For those of you who went the DIY ac/glycol route. Do you have to run two controllers? One to manage the AC unit and coolant temp and one to monitor the fermentation temp and turn the pump on or off? The benefit to the upright chest freezer seems to...

Allow me to first preface this with a simple fact. I treated this mead terribly and with shameful neglect, I'm a monster and given the chance I'd probably steal candy for a baby (p.s I ate most of my son's halloween candy) So I just dumped two different batches of mead due to a overpowering...

I'll be honest I don't remember much of any distinct taste difference between maltster versions. However it's been almost two years since I've brewed anything so try both and see which you prefer?