Recent content by OCLemon

I run 4 small computer fans for cooling and airflow. They run off 12v DC. I've used a small AC/DC transformer from some old piece of electronics gear I no longer use or remember. You probably have half a dozen of these little cubes around your hose. I connected the outlet prongs directly to...

The contents of the bottle are pressurized, if your bag was checked in a non-pressurized area of the plane, then the pressure differential between the beer and the atmosphere rose considerably. If beer is pressurized to about 15 PSI at normal elevation (i.e. as measured against 15 PSI...

Best groomsman gift I've gotten was a personalized iPod shuffle... they run about ~$50 I think.

Here's a technique I like that makes an excellent crispy thin crust. Turn your broiler on. Put something cast iron under it - I just a rectangular cast iron griddle, the back of a big cast iron frying pan works well too. When your pan is really hot, ever so carefully slide your prepared thin...

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I've been considering building a 1500W heatstick to help my stove heat water faster. My burners don't have trouble maintaining a rolling 6-gal boil, but it can take a bit of time getting there. Has anybody used something like this...

I don't know whether there is any actual correlation or causation here, but I seem to get headaches after drinking newly bottled beer. I'm impatient, and generally start taste-testing newly bottled beers as soon as there is enough carbonation, usually in 3-5 days. I seem to get headaches from...

what is your sparge technique when doing this? Do you sparge at all? And if you don't sparge, how do you drain your grain bag? or do you just not worry about the wort in the grain bag when you pull it?

one easy and tasty way to have sweet cider without worrying about the bottle bomb problem is to buy a few bottles of martinelli's sparkling... that stuff is super sweet. When you're drinking your cider, add an ounce or two of the sweet sparkling cider, to taste.

Do you brew 5 gallon or 10 gallon batches in it? If 5 gallon, is all the excess volume problematic?

They're not kidding about this stuff. I brewed the AHS Pliny the Elder clone (OG 1.073), which included a capsule of the Brewvint yeast fuel, last Wednesday. The vigorous fermentation activity stopped on Saturday, so I took a gravity sample on Sunday, and it was at 1.015, which is right...

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I use a 4 inch section of racking cane attached to the end of my siphon tube where it goes into the fermenter. I melted about 3 dozen holes in the cane with a hot paper clip. Works like a charm.

the difference is that with a counter flow chiller, you run a thin layer of cool water past the copper quite quickly, enhancing the heat transfer through the turbulence in the water. With your design (and I’m not saying it won’t work, just pointing out the difference) the water molecules that...

This isn't quite right, because of the ice involved. If you got perfect heat transfer, you'd need just about 33 pounds of ice, or about 4 gallons of frozen water to cool 5 gallons of boiling water to a pitching temp of 71.5 F. It takes 334 Joules of energy to change 1 gram of ice at 32 F to...