I made a nice starter the other day from a few bottles of Rogue Shakespeare Stout and it's chugging along nicely. I was just trying my hand at propagating a little yeast with a new stir plate and it worked great.
All I have on hand is stuff to make a batch of Graff and I was wondering if...
I just finished converting an 10 gal "Igloo" water cooler into a Mash Tun. It was the same idea as the one in this thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-10-gallon-rubbermaid-mlt-conversion-23008/
But the hole in mine was close to 7/8 so I found a grommet like this at Home...
Yeah I'd like to see them use that out in AZ these days. I just took a temp reading off my kitchen faucets cold side...
10:55 AM
97 degrees F
and only getting hotter :rockin:
It operates just like a regular refrigerator with a dial inside that has numbers from 1 to 5 (5 being the coldest).
I assume that on 5 its going to keep the inside temp ~35 degrees cooler than the ambient temp of the room it's in.
I had mine on this afternoon set at 5 and it maintained 40...
I should clarify that I just put the 6.5 gal carboy in to test the height. I assume that with the nice door mod that Evilgnome6 did it would fit.
That Silicone Airlock looks pretty cool. It says it works for glass carboys. Do you think it will work with the Better Bottles?
I have never used...
Greetings all! I just jumped on board here. What a great fourm!
After reading this thread, I went out and purchased one of these from my local Target. It's a nice little cooler and at 79 bucks a pretty good deal. I have been looking for an inexpensive solution to fermenting beers in the desert...