Recent content by KSR

Nice. I'll talk to some folks and be in touch in the next day or two.

How many are available? It may be worth driving up from Richmond if I can get a couple other people here to go in on it with me.

Still available? I'm interested and will likely be in McLean visiting family in the near future.

I just came up with with this solution for a similar problem yesterday and felt like such a genius. Oh well, good to know it works!

I have a 5 gallon cooler and am thinking that it's time to step up to 10 gallons. I'd rather not buy a new bottom or parts for a braid at the moment, so I'm thinking I can just swap the false bottom from the 5 into the 10. The false bottom has a diameter of 9 inches (3 inches less than one made...

Just to follow up, I ended up buying a 5 gal cooler with a false bottom and have been using that to make "big" partial mashes (20 - 30% of the fermentables are coming from extract, the rest from grain), and have been consistently getting 75 - 78% efficiencies while doing batch sparges with that...

Oops, sorry. That should have read 2.5 lb. 2-row pale malt. I'll try the heating up a pot next time around and see how it goes.

It was at 68 when I took the reading, so even after correcting for temperature it was pretty far off. I tested the hydrometer in 70 tap water today and it read 1.002 (uncorrected), which struck me as odd but I know that it's supposed to be tested in distilled water so I'll need to try that too...

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I started brewing PM batches a few months back after brewing extract for over a year, the first two batches were kits from AHS and they came out great. Once I felt that I had the technique pretty much down I started playing around with formulating my...