Recent content by nobeerinheaven

I was planning to replace the cooler mash tun. Is there a cheaper fix? JB Water weld doesn't bond well with the plastic, I tried it some time ago for a different problem.

I brewed a Japanese rice lager a couple of weeks ago---I did a step mash with my electric brewing element (the 220v hot rod is amazing). But unbeknownst to me, the element fried some of my CPVC false bottom and the plastic bottom of my cooler mash tun, exposing the stryofoam beneath...

Alright, here's a recipe. Any thoughts? Recipe: Mystery Stout Style: Imperial Stout Batch 11.00 gal All Grain Recipe Characteristics Recipe Gravity 1.088 OG Estimated FG 1.022 FG Recipe Bitterness 83 IBU Alcohol by Volume 8.5% Recipe...

That's fine, but I plan to (after seeing quite a bit online about quality not being noticeably affected by lengthy dry storage).

For the last four years, I took a brewing hiatus. But as I get back into brewing, I have discovered what must have been the grains purchased for a recipe now long forgotten. I need help solving the mystery so that I can construct a viable recipe. I'm brewing 11 gallon batches, and this is what...

Silica sand is the same thing as silica gel. They deem it "sand" because cats don't like to walk on granules above a certain small size. Pure marketing. It's the same stuff. The reason it works to release moisture in a humidor is that it absorbs so very much. 1 lb silica gel absorbs .81 lbs...

To get a nice dry keezer environment, it's not necessary to spend $20-40 bucks on an evadry. The internals are only silica gel and a heating element. Far cheaper to buy bulk silica gel in the form of the newly-marketed crystal cat litter, dump it in a sack (for instance, an old pillow case), and...

I think. I've been force-carbing and when bleeding off pressure notice an immediate problem in pouring. Probably that is to be expected? After bleeding off, I put on serving pressure of about 10psi and again have to depress the connect to get line pressure. After depressing it once it seems to...

I figured it out (I think): the top of the disconnect was not fully screwed in (just needed a quarter turn or less) but because of that it was not depressing the poppet far enough into the keg. After tightening it slightly, I got a major increase in line pressure.

For Christmas, I've been fortunate to get a kegging setup. But I've had a hard time getting any beer out of the keg: I've got a pin lock setup with about 20psi to the keg and about 12' of 1/4'' ID of poly tubing. Despite that pressure, I cannot get beer out. The line barely fills when I open the...

Unless the keg is needed for something else, what's the rush? After all the time, energy, and money that goes into a batch, is it not worth waiting an extra three weeks to see if it gets better?

OK, I got some bottle bombs last night. So do this at your own risk.

Sure, it's not perfectly reliable. But the alternative most people face when looking at gushers is to fully re-bottle, which takes an hour or more (plus the hassle of sanitizing, etc.). So I'll take a slightly less reliable method that saves me a lot of work, personally. Warm up to room...

OK, so it has been a week and half since I froze these. I've stored the post-frozen bottles in a large tub on their sides, and in that time I've had three out of about 50 bottles seep from the caps (given the high pressure from lack of total yeast death). Not one bottle bomb. Additionally, the...

I've also accidentally frozen enough beers to know that it wont make them flat. Moreover, the c02 pressure is still in the bottle, which means that if they became flat from freezing, they would recarbonate in the coming days. As far as gushers are concerned, I think that gushing can sometimes...