Recent content by resQman4

Classic!!

I learned there is always tomorrow. Today was my first all grain batch. Was so excited and then… Efficiency was way low, had my first ever boil over, did everything I was supposed to but still let a metric **** ton of grain get into the kettle, hooked my wort chiller up to the hose and...

I did a ton of research on that exact issue. There were so many ways people did it and I am pretty sure all had the same results. I sanitized a couple plastic containers/lids cut the tops of the strawberries,cut them into thirds, froze them, thawed them and added to secondary for one week. I...

My OG was 1.052 and finished at 1.010. It only spent 8 days in primary at about 65* and 7 in secondary at about 70* with the strawberries. Turned out great. Made the mistake of letting people taste it. Now it is disappearing very quickly.

Smoked brisket...yummmm

Chop sticks

Yeast infection

I only posted 1 of 8 brews. I like seeing what others were brewing but never really had the urge to post for some reason

I have some hops in the freezer sealed in only sandwich size ziplock bags. Is that ok? Or should I be sealing them up a better way?

Do you know if restaurants buy these tanks from Coke or Pepsi? Or if they just rent them? I ask because we were doing a training at a restaurant that was being torn down the next day and the contractor said everything that was left would go to the dump after being torn down so we should take...

Thanks for the tip. Those would work great. I think my bigger issue is dealing with SWMBO if I mess with her pretty sink. Hahaha

I am with you packman. I live south of salt lake and my family is the only non lds family on the block. We are so the black sheeps. A few people wave but nobody will talk to us or invite us to their block parties. Gonna start brewing outside and in the garage after Christmas. Can't wait to see...

I learned that finally getting a wort chiller absolutely rules. UNTIL you notice that the fancy sink you have in your kitchen, that you thought was cool when you bought it, now sucks because that awesome wort chiller you just got won't hook up to it. Thank goodness for long garden hoses

Haha. It's like you were reading my thoughts from a year ago word for word. That is until I learned that the beer will dictate to me when I transfer it. And what an unnecessary step a secondary is unless you have a high OG beer or making a fruit beer or things of the like. Not to mention what a...

I have set all of my equipment parameters. I just started entering my own recipes and even playing with the ones that came with the program. I all cases when I converted from AG to extract and back, all recipe numbers were different. And would never go back to the original settings. So the...