Recent content by seanmichaleen

At the very least, dunk them in some sanitizer!

I believe it includes sodium or potassium metabisulfite as a bacteria inhibitor

I used 4oz of honey malt in an IPA recently and it's definitely noticeable. The beer finished with a fairly low gravity of 1.010 but has a notable honey sweetness even though there's not much residual sugar left in the beer. I would want to scale back to 2oz of honey malt in my next batch and...

I personally would love to use the RO water for brewing as I add salts to every brew and would like to start with a negligible amount of ions already in the water. Given the quality of the applications / webapps that do water addition calculations, I think you could get up and running in 20...

I went with a 52qt square shaped cooler for my 5gal batches. The grain depth is adequate even on a mild or bitter. I picked it up at Target for $20 a few months back.

You can certainly do almost any Belgian style with Hallertauer. You can also do an Alt (though some say Spalt is the tradition).

I haven't seen it at Lowes or Home Depot. But I've seen it online at hobby stores that specialize in RC cars, boats, and airplanes. There's a chain of stores called HobbyTown USA that might have a small kit with Stay-Brite 8 and Stay Clean. If any plumbing/HVAC stores around you are open...

You really go above and beyond for your fellow homebrewer! I had recently bought lime but could not glean enough information about its use to give it a try. Once again, thank you very much for everything you publish.

I saw that too and I thought it unusual but I filed it in the back of my mind to try one day. Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA uses Citra, Magnum, and Crystal for late hopping and it certainly has a substantial late hop strength. That's enough for me to want to try using magnum when splitting a batch...

The March 809 ones are around 6 gpm and work well for a 5-10 gallon batch. Scaling that up would be around 24 gpm for 40 gallons or 90 Lpm. That does seem ridiculously high to me and I'm sure you can get away with something much less than that. Maybe someone who has done whirlpool chilling on...

You're going to want to find a model that has an appropriate flow rate for what you're doing as well. Are you just going to be using the pump for transferring wort/liquor from one vessel to another or are you going to try a whirlpool chiller? If you're patient, a slower flow rate would work...

After chewing on some grains side-by-side, I think you can get fairly close to the flavor of brown malt by mixing special roast with a little pale chocolate. Of course both of those are sometimes hard to find at your LHBS as well. What percentage of your recipe is brown malt?

With the Stay-Brite 8 solder, is 1/8" going to be too thick to do decent work? It seems to be more reasonably priced than the other sizes.

The hop qualities tend to quickly disappear in a beer as it ages and warmer temperatures tend to accelerate the aging process in beer. I definitely prefer my IPAs as fresh as possible and start drinking my DIPAs about 3 weeks after brewing. With that said, if you feel the other components of...

Ah, thanks for the clarification and saving me from some potential headaches (literally). I'm off to look further into photocell and UV sensors.