Recent content by Sjorge3442

All good stuff here. Thanks!

Bumping this up. Was planning on brewing a hoppy hef with mosaic tomorrow. As anyone here played around with a hoppy wheat forward beer AND fermented with a hef yeast? I was planning on using Stefon from imperial FWIW

Is the thought of this still alive? Missed the last bulk buy from PHBC, but could use a sack or 2.

Using a 10 gallon spike kettle. It barley covers the burner, which is the reason for all the heat escaping up the sides. I already have the burner set to barely be on, however, it still seems like I'm wasting energy due to the pots size. Your point of exhaust does make sense, but even with...

I think you are good here. To save that fermenter, I'd put a little bit of hot water in it, cap it off so its air tight, and then shake it up. The expansion from the hot water/steam should push it out again. If that doesnt work, try the same thing, but instead of shaking, hit it with a small...

I just upgraded my 5 gallon turkey fryer to a 10 gallon spike kettle and blichmann hellfire. The burner and kettle are both awesome, but I'm looking to fine tune a bit. I noticed on my first brew day that on the 3 sides of the burner without the burner heatahield, I'm getting a ton of heat...

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to prevent the threads from getting mess up, thread a bolt through the fitting while its being welded. This will prevent any splatter or heat damage.

So your suggestion is to clamp one of my adapters to the port and trying to force refrigerant into the system? Does that work?

I know I know I know. Its been discussed a million times. I'm looking to find out if anyone has ever had any luck recharging one. I got an Avanti BD6000 off of the list of craig a few weeks ago and to my dismay, the damn thing doesnt get cold (it was 15 degrees out when I bought it so it...

Hmm. Call me crazy but with the CFC i just built and used for the first time, if I had the hose running full blast and the kettle valve opened about half way, my wort was dropping to 56 degrees in one gravity fed pass. Now, if I control the kettles valve I can adjust the temperature obviously. I...

if your making it yourself, make a Counterflow chiller. I just used mine for the first time yesterday and wow. Boiling wort to 68 degrees in the amount of time it took the pot to drain by gravity. No more waiting for an immersion chiller to do its work or the need to throw frozen water bottles...

Has anyone found out if there are coils in the top? I plan on setting mine up tonight. I figure since it has the cooling shelf there should be no coils in the top, but you never know.

why not just pump the racking cane when its in the bucket of sanitizer and then just empty the line then start racking immediately?

Well Im a huge fan of Cali Ale and Cali V, so I say go for it. I love using Cali V in my black ipas. Then again the 05 will give you really clean flavors, but you will be missing that yeast character that the wookey has. I say use the cali ale. I am brewing this, this weekend to break in my new...