Recent content by orford

Hey Doc, where in Germany? My wife is from Hannover and we are most likely moving back there at some point. How accessible are homebrewing supplies? Do you think there would be enough customers for a homebrew shop in a city like Berlin or Potsdam? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Tasted some of the grain tonight, still nice and nutty/malty. I think everything is fine. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Greetings all, I stored two fermentation buckets (lids on but the airlock ports were open) worth of grain in my basement for about a week now (was planning on brewing last weekend but ran out of time). It has been pretty humid here and my basement has held around 75-80% humidity. I was thinking...

Oh yeah, this is for a 5.5 gallons batch at 80% mash efficiency. To scale to 3 gallons multiply all the values by 0.545. You will need to factor in your brew house efficiency. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Here is my weizenbier recipe. My wife is from Germany and her father only drinks weizenbier. The first time he had a bottle of my beer he skeptically took a sip then got a huge smile on his face. "This is what weizenbier used to taste like!" I'll take that as a compliment. He gets here in a...

Four batches on the schedule for this weekend. Just got my incubation chamber (chest freezer with two phase temp control and heating element) set up so am excited to test it out. Need to put together some beer for a late September Oktoberfest party so I am brewing two weizenbiers (one fermented...

3068 makes a mess every time. The krausen always smells like vomit after a rough night out to me. The end product is worth it though! Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has always been a favorite. Not sure I have ever watched it sober... Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I batch sparge in a cooler and routinely am at 80-85% efficiency depending on the gravity of the wort. Low gravity beers and decoctions can get me up to 90%. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I don't think it would knock down the yeast count too much, certainly enough to impact bottle conditioning. Not sure on the delta between the first and last bottle. Would be an interesting experiment (though a bit costly...). Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Greetings all, I have been toying with the idea of getting a hopback, perhaps the Blichman Hop Rocket. When discussing with a fellow homebrewer we got onto the topic of using it like a Randalizer during bottling. The idea being that one could pump fermented, un-carbonated beer from a keg into...

I had a 1.120 RIS blow up in my bathroom the other night. Black tar all over the shower. Fortunately I had the foresight to put the fermenter in the shower with the curtain pulled. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I engineer bacteria to make chemicals. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Mine always does... Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Farmhouse just had some awesome deals on brand new Cornies, may still be going on. I picked up two more for $65 each. They arrived tonight and look pretty good, maybe a lower profile than my old soda kegs... Sent from my iPad using Home Brew