Recent content by ricksam

FWIW you really ought to read up and learn more about what you are doing before hand. Not to quell your enthusiasm for asking questions, but during the process of doing your own research to answer these questions you will find many more answers to other questions you are going to have in the...

From experience I can tell you DO NOT use anything steel to weight down your hop bag, unless you are 100% positive it is stainless! Otherwise the 'I' in IPA will stand for a distinct iron taste. I use marbles for sinking, tie a piece of fishing line to the bag, and learned that dry hopping...

If they would just raise our taxes we would be even more safe....if nothing else, from ourselves.

Cleaned em good. Soaked the hell outta them. I imagine some oil could have been impregnated into the steel but this was metal taste. Lesson learned I guess... Gotta get my still together so I can make some fuel.:mug:

...these balls are always getting me in trouble...:eek:

Yes, yes, in this case it was an ipa...so i guess the i stood for iron!

Well, the bearing came from my WD45 Allis Chalmers tractor that I was tearing apart this last winter...that *&^$%$@% piece of shat showed me who was boss by wrecking my beer. I use hop pellets and usually just toss them in, but I was a little shy on beer volume and wanted to eliminate any loss...

Ooooohhhhh, the humanity! I just had to dump my first 5 gallon batch because of the metalic taste the ball bearings I used for dry hopping released into my beer. Unsure if it was the fact that these were from a used bearing or not, but they went in shiney and clean and came out of the beer a...

My ipas don't clear until at least 3 weeks in the fridge, so I am now cellaring them at @50 for a few weeks so I am hoping that will reduce the fridge clearing time...research is on going...

Yeah, I'm learning that as I read up on this.

Thank you LexusChris for the links!

Since I am too damn lazy to become a beer water chemist, what do I have to do with these numbers? I do all grain... pH 8.2 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 128 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.21 Cations / Anions, me/L 2.5 / 2.3 ppm Sodium, Na 4 Potassium, K 9 Calcium, Ca 26...

I just did my 2nd grain batch and am struggling with my water volumes as well. I think I had two variables that were not accurate...one was the grain absorption number and the other was boil off amount. I use Beersmith and ended up with over .5 g too much wort pre-boil so I went with a 90...

Its called perspective.

Thats fine for you. I would not wish to live in such a country. If you all believe that the b.a.c. issue is about saving lives, then it should be 0.00. While your at it, the speed limit should probably be lowered to say, 10 mph? And if you are on any medication, or not taking medication...