Recent content by ranger13

I though of that one and it is right on. I have to digital ones and a glass one and they read within 1 deg from one another.

I forgot to tell you what kink of setup I am mashing with. I use a 10 gal round cooler with a bazzzuca tube in the bottem. I have tried to Fly sparge and batch sparge and there is no differance seen. Thanks again

OK this one I can not figure out at all. I brewed a batch out of radical brewing. It was the 1776 Porter. The OG should have been around 1.063. (13.5lbs grain, 4.5lbs of each amber,brown, and English Pale malt. What I got after the boil was 1.045 with 5.5gals of wort. The was not good...

Like all have said aready around 9 pounds of base grain plus any specialty gain should give you a noraml gravity beer (around 5%ABV). This is always been a good place for me to start then make ajustments from there on the next batch.

Anybody have any good ideas on a yeast for a Cream Ale. I am looking for a Wyeast yeast. I like there yeast and will keep using them. But I am at a loss as to what to use. Thanks again

You speak the truth, and I am not saying that extract beer is bad because I did 9-10 beers from extract and they where all good but not as good as I would have liked them. I think it is a taste thing maybe?

OK a few weeks ago I was talking to my wife about the beer we have been makeing. I was telling her that there was a sweet taste in all the beers that we have done(9-10). I could not figure out what it was. So I started AG brewing and just opened my first AG, and you know what I found that...

All is good info. Here is my 2 cents. It would be ideal to put has mush O2 in the wort as you can. The wort will only hold so much. Just like and liquid. I use the O2 bottle to do this and it works very well. The beer seems to start faster and finish quicker and also seems to be more...

I use a copper pipe that I have taken a cutting wheel on a demal motor tool too. I put the cut facing down and it works like a champ. I run about a quart or two thru it and let the run off go into the pot. If you do wheat beers (50% or more of it being Wheat) I would use about 1/2 lb of rice...

Here it is. AG is cheaper once you get the equipment and control. ex baking a cake from a box or from scrach. Don't get me wrong boxed cake is not bad but moms home made one is better. hehehehe

Good point I don't batch sparge so I did not think about that, sorry mybad

Has anybody out there used the BrewMagic system by Sabco??? I really like this system but cant find anybody that uses it it for home brewing. I have found a few people that use the older system without the new controller but no one that hase the new one, I think the new ones controller is the...

Now this info is from B3 but they are pretty good. 1.1qt/lb=14.5lbs grain 1qt/lb=16lbs grain .9qt/lb=17lbs grain this is what they give with there 5gal cooler. Hope this helps

DragonTail if you notice I said that the gravity is 2 points high, this reading was taken from a hydrometer. But the info you provided was usefull. I have six primary and six secondary fermenters but I just dont have any more room for more of them. Trust me I wish I did. I think I need to...

Unstable temp could be a big problem, you can shell shock the yeast and they will not do there job like there are suppost to do. BUT I think that your DME is very good place to make a change and see what happens. Also a little O2 could not hurt anything.