Recent content by SakARow

Howdy all! I'm starting a contract brewery and I would like to get some opinions if you don't mind. The brewery is called Eternal Student Brewery and I will be making a pomegranate wheat and an ASB ;) to start out with. This is what I am thinking for my initial sticker idea. And...

It gets a little warm if you let it go at full speed for a long time. I was letting it go for 2 hours on and 1 hour off at 8 (speed out of 10). Over night I put it on 5 and let it go to town

For the record, the fermenter was bubbling after 1.5 hrs. Not bad I say, not bad.

I have never relied on munich as the majority base malt.... maybe I shall in a brew to come now...

I just tried to keep my siphon tube really clean. I have the racking cane in a bung and I go straight through the outlet post a corny keg. Nothing should come in and nothing should go out. I switch the caps as quickly as possible too. Also, my wort out of my chiller goes straight down the...

Just itemized my totals on the az homebrewers page. Turned out to be 50 total all year! 18127.5+50 = 18177.5

just my two cents. cuts the melanoiden malt completely, use pilsner as the base instead of munich (12# pilsner), still use munich (3#). Maybe cut the caramunich to 3/4#. Let the pilsner malt shine! Mash high, I like 154, maybe try to push 156 if you can. If you can step mash I would do 145 for...

Yeast slurry has a ton of yeast! I work at a brewery and there is nothing better than adding fresh slurry into your beer and watching it go to town. On another addition to the quick start... I brewed an IPA today and also kegged another beer in my fermenter. So, needless to say I just put my...

its actually the first step for a 7 bbl batch :rockin: I'll start the next step this after noon. I think that one is going to need a 6.5 gal carboy!

Oh yeah. You can hear the magnet spin and if you take the top off and look inside you can see a nice whirlpool going on. The speed does have to be up around 7-10 to get it going nice and strong, but still effective. Much quieter than when I make starters in an erlenmeyer.

I needed to make a BIG starter but the biggest container I had was only 2000mL... So I used a corny w/ sterile air in (maybe but not completely) What do you think? There is a 2" stir-bar in there as well! Party time for the yeast monsters :ban:

+1 on more info. If you are already carbonated and you are getting a reading of 1.022, you may be higher than that actually due to any CO2 contamination. Even with more info, it looks like you got yourself a session beer ;)

I can take off 2lbs of two row and throw in 1 lb of agave and get the same OG as I have now. hhhhmmmmm....

I can get it down to 1.012. Thats actually my target FG. Like I said, I make a big starter and give them plenty of oxygen. I use a yeast nutrient both in my starter and about 15 min to flame out. I normally get around 85% attenuation (dont quote me on apparent or actual). I was kinda thinking...

I appreciate the positivity! Thank you :rockin: