Recent content by McPintley

If you're in the basement still you should be fine. Especially if it's in the water bath. You'll have enough mass with 10+ gallons of H20 and beer to carry you thru these warm days. Remember, that slab isn't gonna heat up up just b/c of a few days of warm weather. I think heating your fermenter...

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I have been successful stirring the bottom of my 10 gallon ss pot with a Rubber baking spatula attached to a sharpening steel with o clamps. You gotta be ingenuitive. Don't think those cheap white spoons at LHB are going to move the extract off the bottom. Once they heat up they bend. Buy a high...

I just posted a pic of my incubator. Check the gallery. Aquarium heater is about 15 bucks I'm glad to hear your little friends are up and respirating.

Two ales in a tub+Aquarium heater+ Thermoworks probe thermometer

Built in a friends warehouse with Styrofoam walls and a window unit.

like the bugeater says, be patient. Lower temps usually just mean slower fermentation. If you find the temps are still to low, you can elevate the carboy, wrap it in a blanket, or even create a warm water bath with an aquarium heater and a storage tote.

You need a temp from that carboy. Get a strip thermometer or tape and insulate a probe thermometer to it. Fermentation is an exothermic activity, so the temperature inside the carboy should increase a few degrees once fermentation starts. Given it has the proper conditions to start.

Nitsua- Don't despair. I brewed this as my 5th beer as well. When brewing a beer with this many hops it's not a bad idea to use a large hop bag in the wort. If you check the gallery, you will see some ideas of how to suspend a hop bag in the wort. This includes a design which will hold these...

I don't think you will have much luck here. I checked over on a plumbing forum and they hard pressed to help this guy to bend rigid for a light fixture/ art piece. The suggestions ranged from very expensive hydraulic benders to filling with sand and heating to extreme temperatures. If you...

How can you go wrong? By finding this post too late. That's how. They're sold out.:mad: