Recent content by mannye

It's been 13 years since the original post. I wonder if it ever improved?

I can only tell you my own experience. I had a kit that was way out of date and a Wyeast smak pak that was similarly passed its “use by” date. I smacked the pak and it took a little longer to swell up than usual, but it did and I pitched it into the very out of date beer kit. This was a very...

Easy. Put it in a large plastic bag, doubled up kitchen bags should do just fine. Then put that in a heavy canvas bag and roll over it with your car a few times.

Is it a BOMM?

Yeah I was going to mention turbo yeast or one of the more “hungry” strains and heck, why not? But I dunno. It seems like going from 0 to 100 but who knows? It might work fine. It might also strip all the flavor but it’s hard to say without actually doing it. Turbo yeast is not your...

One of the things I’ve noted over the years is that “dry” beers not only taste “clean” but also give me less grief the next day. So aside from a Pilsner or Lager I would say fermenting out all the sugars might also result in a less punishing libation. Maybe try a small batch with a higher...

A trick I learned in the before times (the 1980’s) was to use a latex pickup hose and attach a sanitized medicine bottle (airtight) to the end. That would hold the hose at the top of the beer and ensure clear beer the whole time.

The first time I put all five gallons from a batch into a keg in one pour that took about 5 minutes and realized I didn’t have to wash and sanitize 52 bottles I was done with bottling forever. I graduated to Sanke kegs about 5 years ago and now have a glycol cooled six tap tower with a gas...

I can only tell you what I experienced vs theory. And over the last 30 years I have read dozens of theories about why hangovers happen. But the only two times hangovers have been either lessened or eliminated were when I brewed a light lager of 5% or what’s called an “American Lager” or when I...

pretty cool! Can you put a picture up? I would love to check it out. I’m about to move some stuff around and I hope to make enough space for a full sized fridge.

you can’t go wrong with that I enjoy DIY as much as the next guy but sometimes a nice compact commercial solution lets us get back to brewing and away from fiddling with equipment. It’s a lot like audio. It’s easy to get bogged down by tweaking your setup when the whole point is to listen to...

I don’t :). I have a controller on each freezer. The fan runs 24/7. Actually. I think it wouldn’t be as effective if it only kicked in with the compressor.

That’s the beauty of the chest freezer. Assuming you have the room, of course. Many people just don’t have space for a big freezer. But if you do, it can be used to lager, ferment when it’s too hot, serve as a Keezer, you name it. I think the OPsaid he has a garage this can go into but his wife...

I use two GE freezers hooked into a Johnson Controls A419 temp controller. Literally 5 minutes to set up. Each freezer holds 3 Corny sized kegs (I use Sanke kegs) or one corny and one half as in this one. If you go with a freezer, make sure you also include a fan (mine is kinda just sitting on...

This one looks like a good fit with minor or maybe no modification: https://www.amazon.com/Envelor-Restaurant-Kitchen-Drainage-Floor/dp/B01HSHERBU/ref=sr_1_24?dchild=1&keywords=rubber+tile+flooring+for+kitchen&qid=1587930391&sr=8-24