Recent content by Nuke83

Apologies to anyone clicking to see the recipe. I'm actually trying to find if anyone has one or close to it. I was in Wilmington, NC recently and had a pint of this. It's the best tasting cream ale I've ever tried. From Flying Machine Brewing Co., it bills itself as a tangerine, vanilla...

Used Strata for the first time myself yesterday. Added an ounce for a 30 minute hop stand and will add another few ounces to dry hop in about 10 days. They smell Fantastic. Very clean and bright, and looking forward to tasting. Paired with Chinook and Centennial in the hop stand and will...

Just curious, why no interest in capturing CO2 in a mylar balloon, then using it during cold crash? Space limitation? That's what I do and it works great. Very simple and effective. I hit Dollar Tree and get an uninflated mylar balloon for a buck, tape it to some tubing that I can then put...

I've actually brewed several cream ales this year as I've been tweaking toward an acceptable (to me) Spotted Cow clone. I'd recommend that you try your next brew buying gallons of purified water. The one thing that strong flavored beers do is mask off flavors and water variances where cream...

Buy some packs of cheap PH Strips off Amazon and you can test the PH of your StarSan solution before use. So long as the PH measures below 3, you're fine, whether it's 5 minutes or 5 years old . . .

Ditto to Romex. I don't capture CO2 from fermentation into the balloon. Since I keg, I have CO2 readily available in my tanks, so I fill balloon and don't even connect it until fermentation is complete and it's going into cold crash. One nice thing about using mylar balloons is that they can...

I have a small rig I use for all cold crashes. Basically, I use the base of a three piece airlock and fit about a two foot length of tube over the portion of the airlock that vents. I keep a few mylar baloons on hand that I typically buy at the dollar store since they're only.....wait for...

Man is this the truth! I just shifted from bottle to keg. Converted an old mini fridge to a single tap. All I could think about was how much I was going to have to dump since there was no way I could drink that much beer before it would go stale. Kegged my first 5 gal batch for it and we...

Happy Easter! I'm in.

In for the Win!

Cold crash your secondary before bottling. Who knows, you may not need to bottle at all. Just slice your beer into cubes and serve as beer shots! :yes:

OK, now I get it. He says "purge the fermenter of CO2" and what he really means is "purge WITH" to get rid of the oxygen. It wasn't making any sense to purge the fermenter OF CO2, then agitate, which would do the opposite of what he intends.

Hence the reason for my question. He specifically states around 0:50 that he boiled to remove all the oxygen. Then everything he does thereafter not only introduces oxygen, but seems to do so on steriods. Some things I see and read just seem counterintuitive (case in point), but since I'm...

I'm going to do my first attempt at gelatin for clarification with ale currently in my fermenter. I'm curious about you using the actual beer as the liquid to dissolve your gelatin. I considered this myself, but was concerned that by nuking beer to get it to 150/160F, I'd be skunking it, then...

Someone help me understand the logic here. He either misspeaks or I misunderstand. He boils the water he intends to bloom the gelatin in advance to remove oxygen. Once he finishes the gelatin/water mixture and adds to his "fermenter", he states to purge off the CO2 and agitate it to mix the...