Recent content by pegelow04

I haven't tried this yet nor has anyone in my club. Has anyone had any luck freezing wort to use for a starter at a later date. If so has anyone found any advantages (other than not having to buy some extract) and/or disadvantages. Does the freezing have any adverse affects on the sugars?

I ended up using a fleece blanket to wrap the keg and a towel to help insulate the lid. With the garage at about 65 degrees I only lost 1°-2°. Turned out better than I had expected.

good info. i usually do 5 gallon batches, i'm going to look into insulation.

Calling on all brewers that currently brew with a keggle mash tun. How much heat loss are you brewers getting while mashing? What type of insulation are people using and with what success? I am about to brew my first all-grain in my newly converted keg-mash-tun. any tips would be great.

I'm new to home brewing and have brewed 5 batches so far. I'm doing extract with steeping grains and full volume boils. I have found that after cooling the wort and transferring to the carboy there is a lot of sediment in my kettle. I have been using a strainer to filter it out. Is this...