Recent content by RLinNH

WOWZERS!!! For a guy that went many years of brewing 10 gallon batches every other weekend, I just took a nine month lay off from brewing. Sure as hell I have my reasons why. More like a bunch of significant contributors to make nine months of no brewing. Well, brewed an NEIPA today. I figured...

Leaning towards recirculating my coolant water. Something like this...

After some research, I like the Exchilerator Brutus. Looks like I could even use it as a gravity feed...

I have to ask as I am running into an issue as far as my well going dry on brew days here at my new house. Only time I run the water during my brew day is when I run the immersion chiller. So my question is this. For all of you that have had an immersion chiller and now run some sort of CFC or...

Sorry to hear about your loss seatazzz. I have lost quite a few animals that have been near and dear to me in the past. It's never easy. My condolences...

Today is the first time I get to brew in the garage since May. We moved from the Communist nation of Massachusetts back to my home state of NH on July 1st. So, May and June were packing and moving months. Since then, I have been to busy at work to enjoy our new to us home. Finally, Today I am...

I will be brewing a FT clone very soon also. I just need to narrow down which one I'm going with...

What was your recipe and Hop Schedule?

WOW!!! My yeast took off like a rocket. I checked on my carboys this morning at 0500 Hrs, and both of them already had wort being blown off into the blow off container. Super excited that the harvested yeast is working out!:ban::ban::ban:

What a timely thread for me. I also harvested some yeast, although mine was the Giga Yeast Vermont IPA GY054. I made my starter on Thursday evening, and Friday morning I had no signs of activity. Came home from work on Friday, and all I had was a very thin layer of krausen ( I did a 2 liter...

What do you think, starter or no starter? I'm thinking a small one to get the yeast going. Then again, how much of the yeast should I scoop into my flasks for the starter. I would be doing a 2.50 liter starter with 250 grams of XLDME. If I recall correctly, isn't it 1 cup of the yeast slurry?

On 7/1012016 I kegged a batch of my Sessionable Pale Ale, and I filled up 2, 24 ounce glass mugs with the yeast/slurry at the bottom of each carboy. Both of the glass mugs were properly sanitized in Start Sans. They were placed in my lagering fridge at 34 degrees, both covered with tin foil, and...

I'm also anxious to hear what you think of it. Great idea.

95% of the time, I do 11.50 gallon batches. The other 5% of the time, it a 22.00 gallon brew day.

I dip the stone in Star Sans, and rinse with hot water after each use. With this new one though, I would like to take better care of it