Recent content by mpjay2000

I am far from an expert brewer or scientist, but I just know it works to get the pumpkin flavor into the beer. That's an a lot of pumpkin to put into a boil, I really never have thought about doing that and really don't want to try. Cheers! Jay

Good morning, I've done a pumpkin porter a couple times. I'm an all grain brewer and haven't done an extract brew in a very long time so I don't know how to really critique your recipe. Here is what I do and it's come out pretty good: Grain bill: 10.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)...

Thanks for the concerns. Just to clarify, the motor and entire mill would rest on top of the cabinet. There would be a hole in the top of the table/ bench area for the milled grain to dump into a bucket contained in the cabinet. I'm small scale, so we are talking about enough grain to brew a...

Thanks for the help so far guys. I'm thinking of using two of these side by side: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Project-Source-36-in-W-x-35-in-H-x-23-75-in-D-Unfinished-Unfinished-Sink-Base-Stock-Cabinet/50134984 That would get me the dimensions I want and it would have separation between where...

Good evening and Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I need some help designing and building a set of cabinets that I can place a motorized mill on and mill grain down though an opening on top into a bucket contained in one of the cabinets. Basically I want to be able to use this thing to mill grain...

I should have added, I strain the puree through a metal strainer then add directly to the fermenter. I've never used cheesecloth for this. mpjay

My wife and I are fans of 21st Amendment's "Hell or High Watermelon" Wheat also. I usually will make a 10 gallon batch of my wheat beer and add 8 cups of pureed, seedless watermelon to one of the fermenters after primary fermentation is complete. That way I get 2 different beers from the same...

I'm interested in someone with experience with the FastFerment Conical to chime in also. I used mine for the first time Sunday. I filled it with wort with the collection ball attached and the valve open. I had to wait an hour or two until the wort was at the right temperature to pitch the yeast...

I just tasted my Mosaic/ 2 Row SMaSH last night for the first time and it was awesome! I've done a lot of 2 Row SMaSH's and used Citra (awesome), Simcoe (awesome) and Sorachi Ace (not so good). I used Maris Otter with Citra and it was good too. For yeast I usually use WLP001, 090 or 060...

I like it and think it looks really cool. Just like everyone else though, I'm cheap. What's the cost and what do you actually get. I'm computer stupid so break it down for me. Thanks!

First off, your husband is a very lucky man! Building a keezer is a pretty big project. Depending on how you build it, it can be very time consuming and very expensive. Ask a 100 homebrewers how to build one and you will get a 100 different answers. If you are sure your husband wants a keezer...

I had good results using WLP028, Edinburgh Ale yeast last year. I'm using it again this year. Mpjay

This recipe by Reno eNVy is outstanding. I made this twice last year and plan on doing it twice this year also. I will try to post a link to the recipe. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/punkin-ale-145060/ mpjay2000

Great! Thanks for the quick replys, you guys rock! mpjay

Hey everyone, I was wondering: would leaving sanitizer (Starsan) in the Speidel fermenter hurt the plastic? I just kegged a batch and dumped the sanitizer into the fermenter when I was done with it. I plan on brewing tomorrow so the sanitizer would only be in there for about 24 hours. Any...