Recent content by Millsteg

Well I have a call in to my carpet guy to come take a look at it this week. At the very least, the room is right above my furnace room in the basement so no ceiling to ruin. And as of now, absolutely no sign of wetness in the subfloor.

So I brewed a special batch of beer for the upcoming hunting weekend. Nothing special, but a good beer none the less. So anywho, here's what happened... I transferred the brew from my glass primary to a plastic secondary with a spigot, no problemo. So two weeks go by, no bubbling, it's time...

Well I appreciate all the replies guys. But.... the batch was ruined either way. I was using a "high-temp" pick up tube for the bottom of the boil kettle and well, it wasn't high temp like promised. It melted into the batch of wort so the whole thing needed to be tossed. Which brings up yet...

You know I've heard of people doing that. I have the same orange cooler from home depot. I think I'm gonna try filling the lid too.

Well I added a half gallon of 170 degree strike water but didn't seem to make a difference. It ended the hour at about 145 degrees. I'm hoping this isn't too low.

Ok and the other question is, would it really make a difference at this point? I have 25 min left on the rest and waiting for my strike temp to come back up. Would it make that much of a difference mashing at 150 instead of 155 besides mouth feel?

I stirred it up just now an I'm reading 150 now. But still a little low. When you say to boil the wort a little longer to compensate for over filling with water, are you referring to simply boiling off the extra water?

K guys I need some help. I'm currently 20 min into my first all grain mash and I'm having some significant temp drop. I'm brewing an orange coriander pale ale and it says to mash at 155 for an hour. Well I preheated the mash tun and dropped the grain in with 3.5 gallons of 165 degree strike...

I don't remember the exact measurements off the top of my head but I used 2 inch square tubing, the mounts for each keggle and mash tun are 18 inch squares with 6 inch spacing between the top two. The total height is 24 inches I believe and the lower boil kettle sits 8 inches off the ground...

Here's mine... Just finished

Fired it up for the first time today. Had some issues with the regulator but got it figured out. Boils 12 gallons of water in rougly 30-40 minutes. Can't wait to actually brew on it!! let me know what you guys think The video was taken sideways but it should look right on youtube, if...

Haha a little off topic but good to know.

Ok, so its definitely taking me longer then expected to get this thing done but after today I am just about there. Here's some new pictures of it.

Haha believe it or not, the total cost for the shell of this stand is only $175 and that includes a $50 bottle of 12 year old redbreast for my buddy who welded it.

Lol exactly