Recent content by sboyajian

Most excellent. Thank you!

Do you by chance still have that link or a copy of it? A friend bought a hosehead last year on my recommendation and has had nothing but issues, and now finally what he believes is a bad install. (files missing). Corey, like with most, has stopped responding.

I've been using my Hosehead for about a year now. First time I used it, I installed CBPi and ran with it. I liked the overall look and current support. The problem I ran into was I scorched the hell out of my beer. Seemed like when I was at a boil, it just ran at 100% the whole time. Now, it's...

If you are worried about chlorine, simply use campden tablets. Will remove Chlorine and Chloramines. Problem solved.

If you sealed the keg, it's fine. That said, it's completely uncarbed after an hour. Just get a new reg, hook it up and don't break this one.

I screwed up the Chinook/Cascade Rye IPA by using old hops that had almost no aroma and flavor, but the malt profile was good. The Red X/Target SMaSH took 3rd place out of 10 entries in the 5th Annual Hop Blossom Homebrew Comp in Winchester VA for the Dark/European Lagers category with a 35/50.

not sure about boiling fermented beer to add to also fermented beer. might go sideways.

I just caught your name, and now I'm cracking up.. AngryAndy indeed. :)

Keep in mind that the lactose also increases your Final Gravity. Without the lactose you may well be at 1.025. Still a bit high, but not as high as you are thinking and not but a point or two more than the high end of a sweet stout range. That said, this seems a little dramatic: Does it...

I am waiting on results from my most recent competition.. my pale ale scored a 14.. yes, a 14. Now, confused by that, I immediately went downstairs and poured a glass. It's crystal clear. Hoppy. Not overly bitter. Honestly, it's a beautiful pale ale. My guess is something happened in the...

It does look like that has the tube in it (and I trust you it has no spring on the bottom). I more read it is the bottle was held below the valve and the liquid allowed to fall from the valve to the bottom of the bottle 7-8" to splash on the bottom.

Higher temps will generally give you a lot more of that traditional belgian funk. I usually run my 3711 at mid 60's until it finishes, and the yeast gives me more spice than funk.

Does your method of filling the bottles, if I'm reading that right, not oxidize all of your beer?

I don't know why people seem to think the bubble on this industry is so low... They look at the % of sales not growing as much, but forget huge craft giants sold out and those numbers now go to Macro. 5,300 breweries is nothing, when you consider there are over 600,000 restaurants. This bubble...

I write blog posts for my LHBS in exchange for a discount. He asked me to do two test recipes of Red X since it was new to the shop, one being a smash, so you'll definitely find out how it went as I still have parts 2 and 3 to post. I think we're tasting the Rye IPA in about a week or so as it...