Recent content by mrmarcdee

Check if your fermentation is done by taking hydrometer readings now, and tomorrow. If its the same, probably done fermenting (especially after 3 weeks), and then you are OK to bottle.

Anybody got any links to good reading on water/grist ratios and why they matter or what they affect?

quick'n'dirty spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j31LaTm36oLbrOv_fwkzeDsIdCk26byjK8Y9L_ZAXSw/edit?usp=sharing Fill out the orange squares, water height in basket is calculated in green square. Edit: make sure you double-check my work with a couple more hand calculations :)

Is your segment diagram of the top view of the basket? I was assuming it was oriented like the picture in the mathopenref link you posted. If so, that makes it a lot simpler I think.

I would say most definitely you can make it easy. But I'm still not quite sure exactly what you want. According to here: http://www.mathopenref.com/segmentareaht.html The area of a circle segment is: And volume is just that * length of the segment. So are you just trying to solve for h...

True. But for keeping kegs at serving temperature, I would think it should even out quickly Look-up a thermowell, basically an open-top cylinder that goes down into your fermenter. I don't think there's an option for a keg though, but maybe. For my fermentation chamber freezer taping the...

I stuck the probe into a bottle of water on the bottom of the freezer.

Does the basket move up and down at all, like does it float on the water as you add water into the pot? Assuming the answer to the above is a no, and the basket height is fixed, then I think you would just need the height of the water in the pot, from the bottom of the basket. Then plug that...

I use unflavored dental floss.

I'm gonna take that as a "yes". :)

I was reading another (old) thread and saw some guy say "...and took my OG before aerating (dumb)" Why is this dumb? Is there a proper time to measure the OG of a batch?

Thinking about making a chile beer. Also want to use rye again (tried it once with rye ipa and it was great!). Anybody think these two flavors would combine well? I feel like they would, but can't quite put my finger on why. Specifically thinking about this recipe as a base beer, and then...

What I did worked out great. Hope yours works out too.

Great idea @timpoulsen! I just found and purchased some even-cheaper-than-hw-store-brass 1/4" stainless fittings on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/281313111305?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&var=580352934084&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT...

Thats what I wanted to try first, but again I couldn't find anything smaller than 1/2" at my local hardware store.