Recent content by jwynia

You can get to the photos via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905144716/https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=159239

Also, this system would allow for easily hooking up a chiller to the stand for its water supply.

I'm not as dedicated to StarSan as a sanitizer as many are. I've used iodine more, actually. If that will be easier to keep a stable amount in a tank longer, or some other sanitizer might, I'm open to it. The goal here, obviously is to be able to keep re-using *good* sanitizer and safely...

To clarify. Behind my garage is a 4 foot deep area of concrete. Half of that is sheltered by the eave. My plan is to have the stand on locking wheels so it can be pulled out from the garage to actually brew, but pushed back to take advantage of the shelter to keep it or the tarp cover from being...

So as my system has been getting more and more dialed in, I want to build a permanent, wooden brew stand under the outside eave of my garage. There's plenty here for inspiration on that front, but I'm having difficulty finding examples of something I want to include in my stand: running filtered...

You're right, of course. Are there any other off flavors that ARE mash/boil derived?

Some of the discrepancy in reactions is also due to the classic early/late adopter mindsets. Late adopters tend to buy products only when they've been proven to work so well there's little doubt to their value. Early adopters are much more willing to take a risk on an unproven product, hoping to...

Isn't that all the more reason people shouldn't be super-upset about this machine's existence? If clean beer that matches the intended style is all about fermentation, then this machine is just a prelude to the real show. But, if clean, nominal examples of the style DON'T speak to the ability...

Any time you take a recipe brewed on one system to another system, you're likely to get a difference in efficiency and need to re-calibrate the numbers used for your recipes. The question of numbers comes down more to whether, if he brewed the same recipe again today, if he'd hit 1.056 again...

What flaws did you pick up in it?

At NHC, they had it attached to a standard copper coil chiller. The chiller went in a bucket of ice and the wort went through the coil. The chiller was attached to the tubing via the combination of hose clamps and splices you'd expect homebrewers to come up with. I talked to them about other...

I can't speak for anyone else, by my plan is to used my used kegs as fermenters. I quit buying used a couple of years ago because of leaks in the posts, etc. So, I've got a bunch of used ones that have been just sitting here. They'll now get lots of use as fermenters. I've got new 5 and 2.5...

Most common beer I use is a New Glarus Spotted Cow clone, which is a cream ale, I suppose. It's pretty much my "house" beer. I do use cider quite often.

If anything, these lean a little short on the sugar in the final flavor. People regularly say they don't like normal (read Bush's) baked beans because of all of the sweetness, but these they like. But, like the original post says, depending on the beer/cider you use, you may want to sweeten...

It's a lot of onions, but they basically cook down like a French onion soup in the crock pot.